Zombie House Flipping

Scripted. Horrible acting but they aren't Actors so the rating is not for them. It's for the actual show and the producers, the writers, etc. There was opportunity here but unfortunately this is so fake it's hard to watch. Episode I just watched had the red truck chuck granite off of it taking a sharp turn ON PURPOSE. What A waste

This is a semi-scripted show, just like all of the other house-flipping shows. The personalities aren't obnoxious, but a couple of them do struggle a lot with sounding natural while addressing the camera. Their dialogue with each other is natural and their disagreements generally don't seem staged (the bad acting would give it away), though some do seem to make decisions they know will provoke a reaction.

While the title's focus is on "Zombie" houses which are empty for a long time due to foreclosure or other economic issues, they clearly state in the first episode that they are extending that to include other long-empty, run down, or otherwise scary houses. They play this up with a campy horror-style intro, and various gross, dangerous, and mysterious things found in these houses with some retro horror editing. It makes for a nice turn of humor, and keeps the show from taking itself too seriously.

But there's also a lot of construction and design elements, with explanations of both.

The people have good personalities when they are allowed to be themselves. They do great work and make houses look awesome! The biggest pitfall is all the staged events and poor acting around the staged events

Anyone watch Flipping Vegas? This one is a fairly entertaining diversion. At least the personalities don't totally chafe me like so many of the others in this genre. Scripted, Check. Formula driven, Check. Mildly entertaining, Check. I don't see any reason for a 1 or a 10. Binary ratings bother me, plenty of room in the middle between Shawshank and "look who's talking two" :)

The episodes are MUCH better with Duke!!!

Where's my Duke????

I also wished they played different episodes. For some reason, they keep repeating the same episodes.