Vulture Watch Home Sweet Home Season Two

Vulture Watch Will this social experiment series pay off? Has the Home Sweet Home TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on NBC? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Home Sweet Home, season two.

These families learn what it is like to walk a mile in another person’s shoes, challenging racial, religious, economic, geographic, gender, and identity assumptions. Find out how Home Sweet Home stacks up against other NBC TV shows. O F F I C I A L S T A T U S Home Sweet Home has been pulled by NBC but has not been cancelled or renewed for a second season yet.

Telly’s Take Will NBC cancel or renew Home Sweet Home for season two? Subscribe for free alerts on Home Sweet Home cancellation or renewal news. Home Sweet Home Cancellation & Renewal Related Links TV show ratings are still important.

Do you hope that the Home Sweet Home TV show will be renewed for a second season? How would you feel if NBC cancelled this TV series, instead?

What Is Ava Duvernay’S First Unscripted Series?

NBC will fill a gap in its fall schedule with an unscripted series from Ava DuVernay. The network will debut Home Sweet Home, in which families trade houses and lives with one another for a while, on Friday, Oct. 15. The “social experiment” will fill the 8 p.m. time period formerly occupied by The Blacklist — which is moving to Thursdays to plug a hole created when the network opted not to go forward with its Law & Order spinoff For the Defense.

“With Home Sweet Home, my hope is that audiences will find understanding, perspective and appreciation for not only the families featured on the show but with their neighbors in real life. The team at Array Filmworks and I strive to amplify different voices, cultures, and experiences in all the work we do, and this social experiment does just that. Thank you to our partners at NBC and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television for embarking on this journey with us.”

She created the series and executive produces with Array’s Paul Garnes; Array, Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Warner Horizon produce. DuVernay has a rich overall deal at WB. In addition to Home Sweet Home and One Perfect Shot, DuVernay also has Netflix’s Colin in Black and White, HBO Max’s DMZ, The CW’s Naomi and new seasons of OWN’s Queen Sugar and Cherish the Day on deck in the coming months.

What Is The Name Of The Unscripted Series From Ava Duvernay?

NBC has ordered the unscripted series “Home Sweet Home,” which hails from Ava DuVernay. In the 10-episode hour-long series, two families who lead very different lives go through a full-immersion cultural experiment. The show chronicles walking a mile in another person’s shoes by challenging racial, religious, economic, geographic, gender and identity assumptions as participants exchange homes for a week and experience the life of someone unlike them.

I’m thrilled that NBC and Warner Horizon embraced the challenge of this moment to celebrate the specificity of our differences as we discover the many beautiful things that we have in common.” DuVernay created the series and will executive produce via ARRAY Filmworks. Warner Horizon Unscripted Television will produce.

“Led by Ava’s powerful and hopeful creative vision, these stories will reveal genuine moments of change that we hope will spark thought-provoking conversations and encourage compassion, empathy and understanding.” The show marks a continued expansion into television for DuVernay. Her other TV credits include the Emmy-winning Netflix limited series “When They See Us,” and “The Red Line” for CBS.

DuVernay previously directed, produced, and co-wrote the documentary “13th” for Netflix. It examined racial inequality in America’s prison system and mass incarceration. It received an Oscar nomination for best documentary feature in 2017.

Her other film credits include the Oscar-winning civil rights drama “Selma” and the film adaptation of “A Wrinkle in Time.” She is repped by CAA and Del Shaw Moonves.

What Is The Name Of Nbc’S New Family Social Experiment?

46 shares When NBC’s new “family social experiment” Home Sweet Home was announced last summer, executive producer Ava DuVernay said this in the press release: “The idea for Home Sweet Home came to me during the strange and important times we’re all experiencing. The premise is that we are farther apart than ever, yet bound by what we have in common—concerns with health, safety, justice and community. These notions manifest in each of us in different ways, but nowhere more striking than in the privacy of our own homes.”

Ava DuVernay, executive producer of Home Sweet Home (Photo by Adam Burrell) Yes, Wife Swap has a noxious title that suggests women are property, and was mostly focused on producer-orchestrated conflict, thanks to the book of “rules” written by the production. The editing frequently felt manipulative, and the only takeaway for the audience was how awful some of these people were to their families and each other. Home Sweet Home (NBC, Fridays at 8) aims to be kinder and gentler, but misses any kind of target.

The idea, I suppose, is that the participants learn about people unlike themselves by living their lives for a few days. That’s accomplished by producer-crafted scenes: a piano teacher shows up, a family goes to church, they spend a day in the community. But the show doesn’t bother to engage with how absurd that idea is for the most significant of their differences.

There are minor stumbles—the dad keeps wondering how kids can grow up without a father, the family tries meditating and ends up laughing—but none of this leads into any “transformational moments” in the first episode. Her husband, Nick, concludes, “We’re all humans and should all love each other.” How transformational!

At most, the first episode highlights what happens when people make inaccurate assumptions, like when the Vasiliou kids’ grandfather visits with the the homeowners and asks if Yndia and Ania Wixx are sisters, which means they have to come out and explain that they’re married. Speaking of kids: By far the most interesting moments in the premiere come from them, because their reactions that feel more honest and less performative for the cameras. When the Vasiliou learns that the Wixx’s house was the first in the neighborhood occupied by Black people, the subject of redlining briefly comes up, and one of the Vasiliou’s sons asks, genuinely shocked, “No Black families were allowed to live there?”

That’s not great, Home Sweet Home! But for me, the combination of show’s overblown promises and the relatively flat reality has not generated much enthusiasm for tuning in again. Home Sweet Home Home Sweet Home is a well-intentioned but ultimately flat attempt at connecting people.

Who Created And Produced Home Sweet Home?

The idea of Home Sweet Home, created and produced by Ava DuVernay, is that two families from two different backgrounds will swap houses for four days, and each family will try to live by the other family’s rules, meet each other’s friends and family, and do activities that each family might participate in. HOME SWEET HOME: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: After we see scenes from the first season of Home Sweet Home and get graphics explaining what the show is about, we see Sanaiya and Soleil Wixx doing a “TikTok dance move” for their mom, who’s filming.

While the Vasilous are in the Wixxes’ house, they try to do some guided meditation, and they meet another same-sex couple whose two kids are “diblings” of the Wixx children; in other words, they all have the same donor. They meet Nick’s parents; his father at first thinks Yindia and Ania are sisters. What Shows Will It Remind You Of?

Our Take: Home Sweet Home is supposed to be a feel-good show, one that’s going to have open-minded families learning about other families’ culture, traditions and lives. Yes, some of Nick’s questions to Yindia and Ania or the parents of their kids’ “diblings” contain language that might be construed as microaggressions, he’s treated with compassion by the producers and director. He’s trying to gain knowledge about a situation that he’s not familiar with, and the language he uses to ask about it might not be asked in 100% “the right way”, whatever that is.

Yindia’s emotional reaction to the fact that the Vasilous have an centuries-old, ingrained culture to fall back on was one of the best moments of the episode. It does seem that the Wixxes learned more than the Vasilous, but at least both families learned something about each others’ lives. Sex and Skin: None.

He also likes to pee in the yard, which the Vasilous said their boys used to do all the time when they were younger. We wish they weren’t. Home Sweet Home is not a reality show where you watch for the “gotcha” moments.

Vulture Watch Will this social experiment series pay off? Has the Home Sweet Home TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on NBC? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Home Sweet Home, season two.

These families learn what it is like to walk a mile in another person’s shoes, challenging racial, religious, economic, geographic, gender, and identity assumptions. Find out how Home Sweet Home stacks up against other NBC TV shows. O F F I C I A L S T A T U S Home Sweet Home has been pulled by NBC but has not been cancelled or renewed for a second season yet.

Telly’s Take Will NBC cancel or renew Home Sweet Home for season two? Subscribe for free alerts on Home Sweet Home cancellation or renewal news. Home Sweet Home Cancellation & Renewal Related Links TV show ratings are still important.

Do you hope that the Home Sweet Home TV show will be renewed for a second season? How would you feel if NBC cancelled this TV series, instead?

What Is Ava Duvernay’S First Unscripted Series?

NBC will fill a gap in its fall schedule with an unscripted series from Ava DuVernay. The network will debut Home Sweet Home, in which families trade houses and lives with one another for a while, on Friday, Oct. 15. The “social experiment” will fill the 8 p.m. time period formerly occupied by The Blacklist — which is moving to Thursdays to plug a hole created when the network opted not to go forward with its Law & Order spinoff For the Defense.

“With Home Sweet Home, my hope is that audiences will find understanding, perspective and appreciation for not only the families featured on the show but with their neighbors in real life. The team at Array Filmworks and I strive to amplify different voices, cultures, and experiences in all the work we do, and this social experiment does just that. Thank you to our partners at NBC and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television for embarking on this journey with us.”

She created the series and executive produces with Array’s Paul Garnes; Array, Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Warner Horizon produce. DuVernay has a rich overall deal at WB. In addition to Home Sweet Home and One Perfect Shot, DuVernay also has Netflix’s Colin in Black and White, HBO Max’s DMZ, The CW’s Naomi and new seasons of OWN’s Queen Sugar and Cherish the Day on deck in the coming months.

What Is The Name Of The Unscripted Series From Ava Duvernay?

NBC has ordered the unscripted series “Home Sweet Home,” which hails from Ava DuVernay. In the 10-episode hour-long series, two families who lead very different lives go through a full-immersion cultural experiment. The show chronicles walking a mile in another person’s shoes by challenging racial, religious, economic, geographic, gender and identity assumptions as participants exchange homes for a week and experience the life of someone unlike them.

I’m thrilled that NBC and Warner Horizon embraced the challenge of this moment to celebrate the specificity of our differences as we discover the many beautiful things that we have in common.” DuVernay created the series and will executive produce via ARRAY Filmworks. Warner Horizon Unscripted Television will produce.

“Led by Ava’s powerful and hopeful creative vision, these stories will reveal genuine moments of change that we hope will spark thought-provoking conversations and encourage compassion, empathy and understanding.” The show marks a continued expansion into television for DuVernay. Her other TV credits include the Emmy-winning Netflix limited series “When They See Us,” and “The Red Line” for CBS.

DuVernay previously directed, produced, and co-wrote the documentary “13th” for Netflix. It examined racial inequality in America’s prison system and mass incarceration. It received an Oscar nomination for best documentary feature in 2017.

Her other film credits include the Oscar-winning civil rights drama “Selma” and the film adaptation of “A Wrinkle in Time.” She is repped by CAA and Del Shaw Moonves.

What Is The Name Of Nbc’S New Family Social Experiment?

46 shares When NBC’s new “family social experiment” Home Sweet Home was announced last summer, executive producer Ava DuVernay said this in the press release: “The idea for Home Sweet Home came to me during the strange and important times we’re all experiencing. The premise is that we are farther apart than ever, yet bound by what we have in common—concerns with health, safety, justice and community. These notions manifest in each of us in different ways, but nowhere more striking than in the privacy of our own homes.”

Ava DuVernay, executive producer of Home Sweet Home (Photo by Adam Burrell) Yes, Wife Swap has a noxious title that suggests women are property, and was mostly focused on producer-orchestrated conflict, thanks to the book of “rules” written by the production. The editing frequently felt manipulative, and the only takeaway for the audience was how awful some of these people were to their families and each other. Home Sweet Home (NBC, Fridays at 8) aims to be kinder and gentler, but misses any kind of target.

The idea, I suppose, is that the participants learn about people unlike themselves by living their lives for a few days. That’s accomplished by producer-crafted scenes: a piano teacher shows up, a family goes to church, they spend a day in the community. But the show doesn’t bother to engage with how absurd that idea is for the most significant of their differences.

There are minor stumbles—the dad keeps wondering how kids can grow up without a father, the family tries meditating and ends up laughing—but none of this leads into any “transformational moments” in the first episode. Her husband, Nick, concludes, “We’re all humans and should all love each other.” How transformational!

At most, the first episode highlights what happens when people make inaccurate assumptions, like when the Vasiliou kids’ grandfather visits with the the homeowners and asks if Yndia and Ania Wixx are sisters, which means they have to come out and explain that they’re married. Speaking of kids: By far the most interesting moments in the premiere come from them, because their reactions that feel more honest and less performative for the cameras. When the Vasiliou learns that the Wixx’s house was the first in the neighborhood occupied by Black people, the subject of redlining briefly comes up, and one of the Vasiliou’s sons asks, genuinely shocked, “No Black families were allowed to live there?”

That’s not great, Home Sweet Home! But for me, the combination of show’s overblown promises and the relatively flat reality has not generated much enthusiasm for tuning in again. Home Sweet Home Home Sweet Home is a well-intentioned but ultimately flat attempt at connecting people.

Who Created And Produced Home Sweet Home?

The idea of Home Sweet Home, created and produced by Ava DuVernay, is that two families from two different backgrounds will swap houses for four days, and each family will try to live by the other family’s rules, meet each other’s friends and family, and do activities that each family might participate in. HOME SWEET HOME: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: After we see scenes from the first season of Home Sweet Home and get graphics explaining what the show is about, we see Sanaiya and Soleil Wixx doing a “TikTok dance move” for their mom, who’s filming.

While the Vasilous are in the Wixxes’ house, they try to do some guided meditation, and they meet another same-sex couple whose two kids are “diblings” of the Wixx children; in other words, they all have the same donor. They meet Nick’s parents; his father at first thinks Yindia and Ania are sisters. What Shows Will It Remind You Of?

Our Take: Home Sweet Home is supposed to be a feel-good show, one that’s going to have open-minded families learning about other families’ culture, traditions and lives. Yes, some of Nick’s questions to Yindia and Ania or the parents of their kids’ “diblings” contain language that might be construed as microaggressions, he’s treated with compassion by the producers and director. He’s trying to gain knowledge about a situation that he’s not familiar with, and the language he uses to ask about it might not be asked in 100% “the right way”, whatever that is.

Yindia’s emotional reaction to the fact that the Vasilous have an centuries-old, ingrained culture to fall back on was one of the best moments of the episode. It does seem that the Wixxes learned more than the Vasilous, but at least both families learned something about each others’ lives. Sex and Skin: None.

He also likes to pee in the yard, which the Vasilous said their boys used to do all the time when they were younger. We wish they weren’t. Home Sweet Home is not a reality show where you watch for the “gotcha” moments.

Vulture Watch Will this social experiment series pay off? Has the Home Sweet Home TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on NBC? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Home Sweet Home, season two.

These families learn what it is like to walk a mile in another person’s shoes, challenging racial, religious, economic, geographic, gender, and identity assumptions. Find out how Home Sweet Home stacks up against other NBC TV shows. O F F I C I A L S T A T U S Home Sweet Home has been pulled by NBC but has not been cancelled or renewed for a second season yet.

Telly’s Take Will NBC cancel or renew Home Sweet Home for season two? Subscribe for free alerts on Home Sweet Home cancellation or renewal news. Home Sweet Home Cancellation & Renewal Related Links TV show ratings are still important.

Do you hope that the Home Sweet Home TV show will be renewed for a second season? How would you feel if NBC cancelled this TV series, instead?

What Is Ava Duvernay’S First Unscripted Series?

NBC will fill a gap in its fall schedule with an unscripted series from Ava DuVernay. The network will debut Home Sweet Home, in which families trade houses and lives with one another for a while, on Friday, Oct. 15. The “social experiment” will fill the 8 p.m. time period formerly occupied by The Blacklist — which is moving to Thursdays to plug a hole created when the network opted not to go forward with its Law & Order spinoff For the Defense.

“With Home Sweet Home, my hope is that audiences will find understanding, perspective and appreciation for not only the families featured on the show but with their neighbors in real life. The team at Array Filmworks and I strive to amplify different voices, cultures, and experiences in all the work we do, and this social experiment does just that. Thank you to our partners at NBC and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television for embarking on this journey with us.”

She created the series and executive produces with Array’s Paul Garnes; Array, Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Warner Horizon produce. DuVernay has a rich overall deal at WB. In addition to Home Sweet Home and One Perfect Shot, DuVernay also has Netflix’s Colin in Black and White, HBO Max’s DMZ, The CW’s Naomi and new seasons of OWN’s Queen Sugar and Cherish the Day on deck in the coming months.

What Is The Name Of The Unscripted Series From Ava Duvernay?

NBC has ordered the unscripted series “Home Sweet Home,” which hails from Ava DuVernay. In the 10-episode hour-long series, two families who lead very different lives go through a full-immersion cultural experiment. The show chronicles walking a mile in another person’s shoes by challenging racial, religious, economic, geographic, gender and identity assumptions as participants exchange homes for a week and experience the life of someone unlike them.

I’m thrilled that NBC and Warner Horizon embraced the challenge of this moment to celebrate the specificity of our differences as we discover the many beautiful things that we have in common.” DuVernay created the series and will executive produce via ARRAY Filmworks. Warner Horizon Unscripted Television will produce.

“Led by Ava’s powerful and hopeful creative vision, these stories will reveal genuine moments of change that we hope will spark thought-provoking conversations and encourage compassion, empathy and understanding.” The show marks a continued expansion into television for DuVernay. Her other TV credits include the Emmy-winning Netflix limited series “When They See Us,” and “The Red Line” for CBS.

DuVernay previously directed, produced, and co-wrote the documentary “13th” for Netflix. It examined racial inequality in America’s prison system and mass incarceration. It received an Oscar nomination for best documentary feature in 2017.

Her other film credits include the Oscar-winning civil rights drama “Selma” and the film adaptation of “A Wrinkle in Time.” She is repped by CAA and Del Shaw Moonves.

What Is The Name Of Nbc’S New Family Social Experiment?

46 shares When NBC’s new “family social experiment” Home Sweet Home was announced last summer, executive producer Ava DuVernay said this in the press release: “The idea for Home Sweet Home came to me during the strange and important times we’re all experiencing. The premise is that we are farther apart than ever, yet bound by what we have in common—concerns with health, safety, justice and community. These notions manifest in each of us in different ways, but nowhere more striking than in the privacy of our own homes.”

Ava DuVernay, executive producer of Home Sweet Home (Photo by Adam Burrell) Yes, Wife Swap has a noxious title that suggests women are property, and was mostly focused on producer-orchestrated conflict, thanks to the book of “rules” written by the production. The editing frequently felt manipulative, and the only takeaway for the audience was how awful some of these people were to their families and each other. Home Sweet Home (NBC, Fridays at 8) aims to be kinder and gentler, but misses any kind of target.

The idea, I suppose, is that the participants learn about people unlike themselves by living their lives for a few days. That’s accomplished by producer-crafted scenes: a piano teacher shows up, a family goes to church, they spend a day in the community. But the show doesn’t bother to engage with how absurd that idea is for the most significant of their differences.

There are minor stumbles—the dad keeps wondering how kids can grow up without a father, the family tries meditating and ends up laughing—but none of this leads into any “transformational moments” in the first episode. Her husband, Nick, concludes, “We’re all humans and should all love each other.” How transformational!

At most, the first episode highlights what happens when people make inaccurate assumptions, like when the Vasiliou kids’ grandfather visits with the the homeowners and asks if Yndia and Ania Wixx are sisters, which means they have to come out and explain that they’re married. Speaking of kids: By far the most interesting moments in the premiere come from them, because their reactions that feel more honest and less performative for the cameras. When the Vasiliou learns that the Wixx’s house was the first in the neighborhood occupied by Black people, the subject of redlining briefly comes up, and one of the Vasiliou’s sons asks, genuinely shocked, “No Black families were allowed to live there?”

That’s not great, Home Sweet Home! But for me, the combination of show’s overblown promises and the relatively flat reality has not generated much enthusiasm for tuning in again. Home Sweet Home Home Sweet Home is a well-intentioned but ultimately flat attempt at connecting people.

Who Created And Produced Home Sweet Home?

The idea of Home Sweet Home, created and produced by Ava DuVernay, is that two families from two different backgrounds will swap houses for four days, and each family will try to live by the other family’s rules, meet each other’s friends and family, and do activities that each family might participate in. HOME SWEET HOME: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: After we see scenes from the first season of Home Sweet Home and get graphics explaining what the show is about, we see Sanaiya and Soleil Wixx doing a “TikTok dance move” for their mom, who’s filming.

While the Vasilous are in the Wixxes’ house, they try to do some guided meditation, and they meet another same-sex couple whose two kids are “diblings” of the Wixx children; in other words, they all have the same donor. They meet Nick’s parents; his father at first thinks Yindia and Ania are sisters. What Shows Will It Remind You Of?

Our Take: Home Sweet Home is supposed to be a feel-good show, one that’s going to have open-minded families learning about other families’ culture, traditions and lives. Yes, some of Nick’s questions to Yindia and Ania or the parents of their kids’ “diblings” contain language that might be construed as microaggressions, he’s treated with compassion by the producers and director. He’s trying to gain knowledge about a situation that he’s not familiar with, and the language he uses to ask about it might not be asked in 100% “the right way”, whatever that is.

Yindia’s emotional reaction to the fact that the Vasilous have an centuries-old, ingrained culture to fall back on was one of the best moments of the episode. It does seem that the Wixxes learned more than the Vasilous, but at least both families learned something about each others’ lives. Sex and Skin: None.

He also likes to pee in the yard, which the Vasilous said their boys used to do all the time when they were younger. We wish they weren’t. Home Sweet Home is not a reality show where you watch for the “gotcha” moments.

Vulture Watch Will this social experiment series pay off? Has the Home Sweet Home TV show been cancelled or renewed for a second season on NBC? The television vulture is watching all the latest cancellation and renewal news, so this page is the place to track the status of Home Sweet Home, season two.

These families learn what it is like to walk a mile in another person’s shoes, challenging racial, religious, economic, geographic, gender, and identity assumptions. Find out how Home Sweet Home stacks up against other NBC TV shows. O F F I C I A L S T A T U S Home Sweet Home has been pulled by NBC but has not been cancelled or renewed for a second season yet.

Telly’s Take Will NBC cancel or renew Home Sweet Home for season two? Subscribe for free alerts on Home Sweet Home cancellation or renewal news. Home Sweet Home Cancellation & Renewal Related Links TV show ratings are still important.

Do you hope that the Home Sweet Home TV show will be renewed for a second season? How would you feel if NBC cancelled this TV series, instead?

What Is Ava Duvernay’S First Unscripted Series?

NBC will fill a gap in its fall schedule with an unscripted series from Ava DuVernay. The network will debut Home Sweet Home, in which families trade houses and lives with one another for a while, on Friday, Oct. 15. The “social experiment” will fill the 8 p.m. time period formerly occupied by The Blacklist — which is moving to Thursdays to plug a hole created when the network opted not to go forward with its Law & Order spinoff For the Defense.

“With Home Sweet Home, my hope is that audiences will find understanding, perspective and appreciation for not only the families featured on the show but with their neighbors in real life. The team at Array Filmworks and I strive to amplify different voices, cultures, and experiences in all the work we do, and this social experiment does just that. Thank you to our partners at NBC and Warner Horizon Unscripted Television for embarking on this journey with us.”

She created the series and executive produces with Array’s Paul Garnes; Array, Warner Bros. Unscripted Television and Warner Horizon produce. DuVernay has a rich overall deal at WB. In addition to Home Sweet Home and One Perfect Shot, DuVernay also has Netflix’s Colin in Black and White, HBO Max’s DMZ, The CW’s Naomi and new seasons of OWN’s Queen Sugar and Cherish the Day on deck in the coming months.

What Is The Name Of The Unscripted Series From Ava Duvernay?

NBC has ordered the unscripted series “Home Sweet Home,” which hails from Ava DuVernay. In the 10-episode hour-long series, two families who lead very different lives go through a full-immersion cultural experiment. The show chronicles walking a mile in another person’s shoes by challenging racial, religious, economic, geographic, gender and identity assumptions as participants exchange homes for a week and experience the life of someone unlike them.

I’m thrilled that NBC and Warner Horizon embraced the challenge of this moment to celebrate the specificity of our differences as we discover the many beautiful things that we have in common.” DuVernay created the series and will executive produce via ARRAY Filmworks. Warner Horizon Unscripted Television will produce.

“Led by Ava’s powerful and hopeful creative vision, these stories will reveal genuine moments of change that we hope will spark thought-provoking conversations and encourage compassion, empathy and understanding.” The show marks a continued expansion into television for DuVernay. Her other TV credits include the Emmy-winning Netflix limited series “When They See Us,” and “The Red Line” for CBS.

DuVernay previously directed, produced, and co-wrote the documentary “13th” for Netflix. It examined racial inequality in America’s prison system and mass incarceration. It received an Oscar nomination for best documentary feature in 2017.

Her other film credits include the Oscar-winning civil rights drama “Selma” and the film adaptation of “A Wrinkle in Time.” She is repped by CAA and Del Shaw Moonves.

What Is The Name Of Nbc’S New Family Social Experiment?

46 shares When NBC’s new “family social experiment” Home Sweet Home was announced last summer, executive producer Ava DuVernay said this in the press release: “The idea for Home Sweet Home came to me during the strange and important times we’re all experiencing. The premise is that we are farther apart than ever, yet bound by what we have in common—concerns with health, safety, justice and community. These notions manifest in each of us in different ways, but nowhere more striking than in the privacy of our own homes.”

Ava DuVernay, executive producer of Home Sweet Home (Photo by Adam Burrell) Yes, Wife Swap has a noxious title that suggests women are property, and was mostly focused on producer-orchestrated conflict, thanks to the book of “rules” written by the production. The editing frequently felt manipulative, and the only takeaway for the audience was how awful some of these people were to their families and each other. Home Sweet Home (NBC, Fridays at 8) aims to be kinder and gentler, but misses any kind of target.

The idea, I suppose, is that the participants learn about people unlike themselves by living their lives for a few days. That’s accomplished by producer-crafted scenes: a piano teacher shows up, a family goes to church, they spend a day in the community. But the show doesn’t bother to engage with how absurd that idea is for the most significant of their differences.

There are minor stumbles—the dad keeps wondering how kids can grow up without a father, the family tries meditating and ends up laughing—but none of this leads into any “transformational moments” in the first episode. Her husband, Nick, concludes, “We’re all humans and should all love each other.” How transformational!

At most, the first episode highlights what happens when people make inaccurate assumptions, like when the Vasiliou kids’ grandfather visits with the the homeowners and asks if Yndia and Ania Wixx are sisters, which means they have to come out and explain that they’re married. Speaking of kids: By far the most interesting moments in the premiere come from them, because their reactions that feel more honest and less performative for the cameras. When the Vasiliou learns that the Wixx’s house was the first in the neighborhood occupied by Black people, the subject of redlining briefly comes up, and one of the Vasiliou’s sons asks, genuinely shocked, “No Black families were allowed to live there?”

That’s not great, Home Sweet Home! But for me, the combination of show’s overblown promises and the relatively flat reality has not generated much enthusiasm for tuning in again. Home Sweet Home Home Sweet Home is a well-intentioned but ultimately flat attempt at connecting people.

Who Created And Produced Home Sweet Home?

The idea of Home Sweet Home, created and produced by Ava DuVernay, is that two families from two different backgrounds will swap houses for four days, and each family will try to live by the other family’s rules, meet each other’s friends and family, and do activities that each family might participate in. HOME SWEET HOME: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT? Opening Shot: After we see scenes from the first season of Home Sweet Home and get graphics explaining what the show is about, we see Sanaiya and Soleil Wixx doing a “TikTok dance move” for their mom, who’s filming.

While the Vasilous are in the Wixxes’ house, they try to do some guided meditation, and they meet another same-sex couple whose two kids are “diblings” of the Wixx children; in other words, they all have the same donor. They meet Nick’s parents; his father at first thinks Yindia and Ania are sisters. What Shows Will It Remind You Of?

Our Take: Home Sweet Home is supposed to be a feel-good show, one that’s going to have open-minded families learning about other families’ culture, traditions and lives. Yes, some of Nick’s questions to Yindia and Ania or the parents of their kids’ “diblings” contain language that might be construed as microaggressions, he’s treated with compassion by the producers and director. He’s trying to gain knowledge about a situation that he’s not familiar with, and the language he uses to ask about it might not be asked in 100% “the right way”, whatever that is.

Yindia’s emotional reaction to the fact that the Vasilous have an centuries-old, ingrained culture to fall back on was one of the best moments of the episode. It does seem that the Wixxes learned more than the Vasilous, but at least both families learned something about each others’ lives. Sex and Skin: None.

He also likes to pee in the yard, which the Vasilous said their boys used to do all the time when they were younger. We wish they weren’t. Home Sweet Home is not a reality show where you watch for the “gotcha” moments.