User reviews

Mike Holmes appeal is insight and technically superior processing and breakdown of problem solving skills. That doesn't necessarily translate to docudrama appeal, but for those people that are fascinated with the skills required to discover issues and then solve them; this is butter.

I wish they'd stop trying to make this work with every audience, it won't. No body wants to watch family drama of mentally stable people.

Love Mike but Mike Jr. Gets on my nerves. I'm sure he's a good guy, although clearly arrogant, but he's not nearly as cool as he thinks he is and I'm sick of his "my dad always thinks he's right" shtick. Give it up, Jr. You're dad is actually cool. You? Not so much with that attitude.

I agree with others that this version of Holmes isn't quite up to his older shows. The manufactured drama and occasional fooling around to make lame comedic breaks is a waste of time. But Holmes is still the best of all the HGTV, DYI, etc. Shows about reno, flipping, home whatever. With Holmes and now son Holmes it's always been about the homeowner and what it takes to fix what's wrong. The level of education Holmes imparts is second only to "This Old House" (which is on a completely higher plane by itself).

I'm not sure what's wring with the other commentators🙄🙄 but this show is great. Mike Jr and his friends are hilarious and the banter he and his daddy has is just fun to watch. Some ppl have their white tighties in a knot apparently

This show -the first season at least where they build Mike Jr's new home- is like they took Holmes Makes it Right, cut the 'Making Things Right' content in half, and filled the gaps with family melodrama, product commercials and fake 'sometimes we guys like to cool down by sitting in a circle and spraying each other with water' (seriously) daily activities. The added content is so transparently and awkwardly forced in, as though the execs polled housewives with a question like, "what would make you consider sitting through one of these shows with your significant other?" It kind of ruins it. Also there's an unusually high percentage of recapping where we are and what we're going to do next. It's just not as meaty of a show as it should be for ostensibly a home improvement show. There are a number of 'on the ground' changes that are used as conflict tension, but are so clearly due to poor initial planning it's unbelievable. These guys are talented builders, not entertainers, let them do what they do best. They're also super opaque and phony with the financial end of things. Junior starts out saying he wants to pull out a wall and redo all the finishes of his little starter house (featuring a clearly artificially aged garage door) with 50k he 'saved up'. It's an optimistic thought but doable, hardly worth a whole season of a show - then the show asks you to believe that "Big Mike," on camera, sideswipes him instead with the idea of completely rebuilding his house from the foundation up, adding a story, using solar panels and all the most modern materials and finishes. There are a couple sentences to the effect of, "Whoa whoa what that sounds like more than 50k" and some hand waving about the bank taking care of it. What?? They end up with a half million dollar house with 5 (FIVE) bathrooms owned by a 25 year old and a prospective 'doctor of holistic medicine'. Just go ahead and don't mention the money, pretending to be folksy-relatable. "Oh geez this minor setback sounds like I'm going to have to compromise in other areas to be still able to afford the whole project ....even though your "garage" we built last year is an estate with its own postal code and I'm cleaning your yacht on camera because I lost a scripted hammering bet"

My brother hired a man to redo their kitchen and after 6 months and $30,000 still no kitchen completed and no cabinets. He has worked with and talked to him tirelessly and still nothing completed!!!

I love all their shows and h ok w they help people. Would love to meet them.

Have always loved watching this show. Learn a lot. However, the last couple of seasons it is hard to hear what Mike or subcontractors are saying becasue the background music is SO loud.

This one is almost painful to watch with the phoney melodrama and scripted batter. Even the music is cringeworthy at times. Junior (and his friends) just ain't got it. Holmes Makes it Right (with the best music too) was the end of Mike Holmes great run.