Get Organized With The Home Edit is organiztion porn for the 1%

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The Netflix reality show starring home organizers Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin "positions itself as a cheerier, more Pinterest-friendly version of Marie Kondo’s entire ethos: everyone could stand to be a bit more organized, and if someone is willing to help out, then great," says Megan Reynolds. "Every episode features a regular family with the sort of regular-family disorganization—a messy garage, a disorganized kitchen—and then is enhanced by the guest appearances of extremely famous people, who certainly have the time and the means to organize their houses themselves. Watching the women gush over Reese Witherspoon’s costume archives or Rachel Zoe’s collection of Chanel bags is sycophancy at its finest. Celebrity’s messiness is only interesting if there is actual mess, and it’s hard to sympathize or feel inspired by a very rich woman asking two other women to organize her stuff so that she can better see all her things. While I understand that the famous people are likely the draw, there’s nothing particularly interesting or exciting about watching famous people of means pay these two women and their assistants—an army of women who look like a sentient Christian Girl Autumn meme—to organize their designer goods inside a capacious walk-in closet. In the second episode, the women tackle the closet of celebrity stylist Rachel Zoe, who has already benefitted from their services in the past, but has since gone astray. 'I want to be able to move in my closet,' she says, even though as she says this, there are three women and a camera crew standing in the space with ease. The issue is not that her closet is disorganized, but that she has too much stuff—so much stuff that the women were able to eliminate an entire rack of clothing that she identified as her 'Hamptons wardrobe' and clear enough space so that they could put an island in the middle of the closet so that the space would feel a little less empty."

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• There's no emotion in Get Organized With The Home Edit: "It’s weirdly bloodless, which is why it ends up being so unsatisfying," says Kyle Chayka in contrasting Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin's show with Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. "Shearer and Teplin’s strategy is enshrined in the dry steps 'Edit, Categorize, Contain, and Maintain.' 'Purge' things you don’t need, designate your zones, then put everything into transparent plastic boxes, ideally on modular faux-Vitsoe shelving. The final step is the most difficult and goes largely unaddressed: things have to stay in their boxes. In the 'after' montages, each room ends up looking the same, a monotonous grid of plastic. Reality TV requires some kind of drama to succeed, however minor. With Kondo, it was the cathartic decision to sacrifice some previously beloved object, but the biggest upset here is when Shearer and Teplin miscalculate the size of the bins needed. It’s the rare production that may have been better off on the short-form mobile streaming service Quibi, because there’s only ten minutes of meaningful content per episode."
• Get Organized With The Home Edit is just as intoxicating as Selling Sunset and Million Dollar Beach House