Oh Jeff. How we've loved your crazy ways. And your impeccably decorated million dollar homes. As Bravo's Flipping Out comes to a close this season, we'll put aside our mixed feelings about the show for one last hurrah with Jeff and his crew.
For the season finale, we learn what Jeff does to his wary employees when they don't answer his beck and call (a walkie talkie tracking device), and what happens when his ex finds a leak in the Nottingham crib. Now that the show's first season has ended, did anyone learn useful decor and flipping tips from the show? Or did it just make you never want to get in that business at all? Or did you just watch this in anticipation of Tim Gunn's Guide to Style?
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Comments (4)
whoa, this show leaves me so unsettled... like staring at somebody on the bus with a big scar on thier face: you know you shouldnt be, but you keep glaring at it... Jeff, what a monster, I guess that some of it is an act for the cameras... but alot of people do act like this. and does he have some kind of collagen in his lips or something??? I hate myself for watching this.It is like rubber knecking off the side of the highway to see how gruesome the accident is... The houses are nice, very "DONE", is guess is the word, some of the detailing could use a bit more restraint, but not bad overall...
This show has as much personality and informative content as a urinal cake. I have to admit, I was unable to continue watching it as I found myself too busy hitting my head with a roll of plastic-wrap in order to erase this from my memory.
Unless the finale promises to show one of his employees reenacting a scene from "SAW" then I would have to say that this was not one Bravo's finest moment. *(read; "Delusions of mediocrity")
Perhaps Jeff can just go back to getting bad plastic surgery and we can replace this show with something more entertaining and informative. At this point, I'd settle for reruns of ALF.
I watched a few episodes of this show to see how the other half (of the city that is) lives, it's so cliche L.A. Jeff can be over the top but I bet he's fairly representative of others in his position. His employees don't seem all that together either.
As for his remodeling jobs, they're so artificial. They don't take into account the character of the houses. I guess though, that's the kind of world he wants to create for himself. As long as he stays on his side of town, I don't care. :)
I watched two back to back episodes last week and I was strangely fascinated and can't wait to watch it again. It's like a weird SM employment set up--anyone seen the movie "Secretary"?--with sadist Jeff verbally and irrationally abusing his employees (how much do they get paid for this abuse anyway?) and the employees kind of fidgeting around like, oh no, I got caught, duh. And yet they transgress anyway, knowing that Jeff will flip out and do something like demote them to the trash job for a while. Dumb? Or looking for some lashings? And they all eat lunch together. How cute.
It's also fascinating to watch people act out on their impulses, which most of us don't get to do so much in our work lives, even though we secretly might want to start acting out like Jeff.
Is this show really for real? Is it acting? I read an interview with Jeff (ok, I need a life) in which he said that he feels bad watching his behavior on the screen and that in the next season, viewers are going to see a real change in him.
I really don't notice the houses very much except that they're vast and LA.