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Flip Or Flop, that doesn’t mean that millions of people aren’t religiously watching them. Networks like HGTV are providing the programming viewed everywhere from cozy couches to harshly lit hospital waiting rooms, bringing the oddly comforting—and inherently untrue—feeling of a quick and clean renovation to semi-distracted viewers on the regular.
But why do we love transformation TV so much, and what is it about shows that essentially feature the framework over and over again that we find so comforting? To get to the foundation of these questions, we dialed up a construction crew’s worth of experts, from actual HGTV stars to comedians who have made names for themselves expounding on their love for the network.