KaitlinJones1

Basically the entire purpose of this renovation show is for Honest Company product placement. It's literally in the name, so I guess I shouldn't have been surprised.

What else is in the name? "Holiday."

Unfortunately they way under-delivered on the "holiday" thing. Watching it I completely forgot the show had anything to do with the holidays. In fact, they had to keep clipping to random holiday imagery that had nothing to do with the home they were renovating just to remind the audience that this show had anything remotely to do with the holidays. Finally at the end they breezed through dressing up the house for the holidays. And the holiday decorations they did use were not very impressive. I was very underwhelmed, especially since the reason I watched was specifically for holiday decoration ideas.

That being said, I generally did like the stylistic choices they made in the home renovation. They did use a little bit of "millennial gray" but not overwhelmingly so. I'd be happy if they renovated my house.

I love learning about alternative burial and memorial practices, so this episode was right up my alley.

The only thing I was kind of disappointed with was their lack of explanation on exactly how the DNA technology links with their proposed plant memorials. Are they saying the plant would be like a computer storing the info? And, if so, if the plant dies, then so does the memory of the person? I wish they'd have gone into more detail to clarify what they were talking about, and how those two concepts are linked.

I very much appreciated what they said about social media and how our own data belongs to powerful corporations that never intended, foresaw, or were trained to be the caretakers of (digital) human remains. It's an important issue that not enough people are talking about. I added Elaine Kaskets book to my to-read list because I want to know more about it.