Margaret Sellers

So far, this show is rather one-note. I'm only a couple episodes in, but a few things bother me: 1. All the contestants are skinny, tan, and attractive. There are no average looking people, which tells me that they valued that more than actual talent when screening contestants. Not sure if this is a thing in Asian television, but it doesn't reflect reality for me as an American watcher. It's discriminatory and elitist. Like, I don't care if my interior designer looks like Elephant Man, if they can make my rooms look good, I'd hire him/her--and I'd bet they had a few people audition who weren't cookie-cutter-gorgeous. The fact that I've seen these people (who never say anything like "interior design is my dream" or "I've been doing this on the side for ___ years and I'm ready to make this my full-time career") make rookie mistake after rookie mistake tells me the show producers didn't really scope out the best talent. Meh. 2. Laurence Llewellyn-Bowen owns one suit. 3. The drama in the show focuses far more on the interpersonal drama between contestants and teams than it does on the design. For me, if I want to watch a reality competition show about interior design, I want to watch people who are good at something let the audience in on the process of how they do it. Overall, this show seems to be mainly for people who like watching interpersonal drama TV, like Big Brother or Desperate Housewives, and maybe kinda sorta also like interior design a little.