Zombie House Flipping

If the show focussed on the actual ins & outs of the renovation it would be so much better! Fake 'drama' setups where granite slabs fall off the back of their trucks, alligators in the pool, water pouring through the house, backyards on fire.... the list goes on & every episode has at least 1! Bad acting, especially from Keith.

A very huge shame. This series has a huge potential, buying a terrible house, fix it and sell it. The reward for the viewer is the satisfying difference between begin and end and tips and tricks about house improvement. But, and that's a huge but, they stage all kind of disasters and accidents, completely unbelievable and totally unnecessary, a huge shame. Always a camera pointed right at the accident, like the episode where their truck loses a granite kitchen piece, what "luck" the camera's were rolling.

I really hope they see this comment, lose the fake parts, real life series are enough unreal as they are.

Really clever house flipping series with good focus on renovation ideas and real estate fundamentals but the lack of a real designer sees the latest season flat when it comes to style & design choices.

This is a semi-scripted show, just like all of the other house-flipping shows. The personalities aren't obnoxious, but a couple of them do struggle a lot with sounding natural while addressing the camera. Their dialogue with each other is natural and their disagreements generally don't seem staged (the bad acting would give it away), though some do seem to make decisions they know will provoke a reaction.

While the title's focus is on "Zombie" houses which are empty for a long time due to foreclosure or other economic issues, they clearly state in the first episode that they are extending that to include other long-empty, run down, or otherwise scary houses. They play this up with a campy horror-style intro, and various gross, dangerous, and mysterious things found in these houses with some retro horror editing. It makes for a nice turn of humor, and keeps the show from taking itself too seriously.

But there's also a lot of construction and design elements, with explanations of both.

Anyone watch Flipping Vegas? This one is a fairly entertaining diversion. At least the personalities don't totally chafe me like so many of the others in this genre. Scripted, Check. Formula driven, Check. Mildly entertaining, Check. I don't see any reason for a 1 or a 10. Binary ratings bother me, plenty of room in the middle between Shawshank and "look who's talking two" :)