Holmes on Homes: Season 5
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Actor: Carl Pavlovic, Corin Ames, Matt Antonacci, Mike Holmes, Peter LundyDVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: Box set, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 664 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2008-10-14
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Bfs Entertainment
DVD Reviews of Holmes on Homes: Season 5
DVD Review: Last Great Season
Summary: 5 Stars
This was Mike's last really good season before turning the show into some kind of teenage training show. After this season the cast seemed to change overnight from real, experienced contractors to a parade of young kids right out of school who knew about less about the work than we do. Imagine the confidence that gave to the homeowners when the crew showed up with Mike and bunch of young kid's dressed in hip clothes. Mike's use of attractive young gal's on the crew leaves you with the feeling that they were brought in to perk up the ratings and to provide a new kind of wood for the viewers. (That seems to be the MO for this network as nearly every show has some element of T & A in it, from poorly skilled but good looking hosts of both genders to even having a preference for attractive homeowners) Personally, I enjoyed the colorless earlier crew, who at least knew their trades and let us focus on their work. You had the sense they knew what they were doing and could stand alone even if Holmes wasn't there. They were not someone named Pink wearing skin tight outfits. If Mike controlled production and did this to us, shame on you. I say that because I really like the show and what Holmes was trying to do with it by focusing in on what bad contractors do to average homeowners. The earlier shows made complete sense because the crews were valid contractors, not young kids learning the trade.
My favorite of this season was 'Out of the Ashes'. Here, Mike rehabs a home that had been hit by just about every kind of bad thing a house can get hit by: shady contractors, old polluted tanks, fire, habitation from all sort of wild funky animals and intense stink. Mike guts the entire house and procedes to rebuild the place to include lifting the floor, putting on a new roof and even clearing the basement of asbestos. The owners have had their share of hard times and have been taken advantage of by shady contractors. Mike makes everything ok, and the rather spaced out mom can't believe her good fortune to have had Mike help her out. Her daughter, a real cute young gal who seems to have a good attitude, really likes what Mike has done for them, to include leaving her some beer in their new fridge. For my money, if I was ever in Canada I'd like to swing by and down a few beers with her. Cute gal. But, the best part is she's not part of the crew, so she's not putting up drywall. The bad part is she's probably be fun to watch putting up drywall.
Seriously, a great show and the best season of the show. Worth the buy, if it ever is put back in production. Better write to the gal in the Out of The Ashes house and see if she has an extra copy.
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