Myron Clemons
A film of deceptively outspoken contemporary relevance, this is cinema at its most alert, alarming and alive.
aarone2884
I like this show. I am a landscaper firstly, i have only watched the first 2 episodes and they are quite good with both very different landscapes. The couples of both these episodes seem to know what they want to achieve, and appear competent enough to do it, maybe not to a fixed timeline or budget you will get from a professional, but they do quite well, and probably for a lot less.The Host use's a Kevine McLeod of grand designs impersonation to handle the show. Probably the the best way to handle a show like this, as they are very similar, except one is exterior construction/landscaping. Unfortunately it is what he adds on top of that impersonation.Attempts to look as though he is part of the project, he constantly is stating The winter mud may.. "Make or Break this landscape" just add the reason to the start of make or break..... this is OK if it is true and you can show on film how it is making or breaking the landscape....otherwise Shut up.Or when he gets involved is cringe worthy, the plants on the embankment made me laugh....the ground is hard....then he looks over he is then sayin..hrrmm...they seem to be doing OK.....that was not hard ground.Please just stand back Mathew and let the people handle there own landscape!And then there's the Convenient "Wow someones donated $10,000 of materials for your job....or here is a $50,000 excavator you can use for 5 months for free!As much as this might be true....i doubt it. With the exception of the hosts interferences and nonsensical concerns from the shrubs with the camera in his face like something out of blair witch.....this show is really good.A show like this though will really deserve and benefit from a Revisited series, A lot more than Grand designs revisited has, as these gardens are going to take a few year to really come together and evaluate properly due to the nature of plants taking time to grow. And you can see this in a lot of the finished landscapes, Hard surface work is completed and the plants practically still the same they where when they where planted.I have given it 8 out of 10. 1 off for the host and 1 off for having the episodes drag on so long when they could have been shorter, there is a lot of unnecessary film.
