You know the formula, a couple is unhappy with their current two-bedroom home.

They're wrestling with whether to upgrade it, knock down a few walls, finally finish

that basement, or pull up stakes and find a new home.

Or maybe it's a couple that knows for sure they want to renovate, they want to grow their

family and there's no room for a nursery, or there's no home office or downstairs bathroom.

It's testing the limits of their relationship, or maybe it's a couple with some extra cash

looking for a second home in a tropical locale like Belize or Brazil.

All of these scenarios include dreamy properties, dramatic remodels, folksy DIY duos.

This is the world of HGTV.

You know just like a lot of reality TV where it's not actually reality, it's very much

crafted and edited and scripted.

But nonetheless, they do a really good job of taking our emotions, you know, somewhere

else.

It's kind of like taking us to Fantasy Land, which is I guess the purpose of any entertainment.

Yeah, I find myself wanting to get sucked into, oh I could do this with our house or that

with our house and it would be so much better and look how easy it is.

That's Denise Rappman, on Point Listener in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

HGTV is her guilty pleasure when she's staying in hotel rooms and Denise let me tell you

me too.

I check in, turn on HGTV and let it run like the comforting dreamy background to whatever

real life issue I'd rather avoid.

Well, here's another listener, this is Laura in Burbank.

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