Drew and Jonathan Scott, Brothers hosts at work.
He drew Y Jonathan Scott they are two Hollywood superstars who don’t act in big movies or drama series. Much less step on the red carpets of prestigious festivals. These twins (of undeniable physical resemblance to the nine Uruguayans Luis Suárez) are distinguished by having professions that do not match those of celebrities: one is a production contractor and the other, a real estate agent.
The pandemic came from The Office and Brothers at work or, in English, Property Brothers. Any viewer can watch both shows for hours until their brain tells them enough. Eating The Office or Hermanos a la obra is like having a box of those famous raspberry and chocolate bonbons less than half a meter away.
Both the sitcom? with Steve Carell in the role of the television show The Scotts Are Fiction. One, in its entirety; the other, in part.
Drew and Jonathan are 44 years old.
As much as Hermanos a la obra presents actual cases of couples wanting a better home, the show is basically … a show.
Before breaking down its “truths”, it is worth making a clarification (it is not to be thought that this article hides bad intentions): the Scots know this well and allowed recognized media, such as the New York Times, to follow the backstage of their production.
Nothing is what it seems
Nothing Is What It Seems is the title of a film about illusionists who hide many secrets. With Brothers at work, saving the criminal instances of the film’s protagonists, it’s something like that. Although most of the scenes that take place in front of the camera also take place behind it, some things in Property Brothers are carefully planned by the production and the frosted brothers.
An important fact that attests to this: HGTV, the channel where Hermanos a la obra airs in the United States, covers the costs of the episodes, but Drew and Jonathan pay for the remodeling out of pocket. All proceeds also go to charities, such as Habitat for Humanity.
The premise of Brothers in the Works is simple: high net worth families want to give their homes a new look and ask Jonathan and Scott to renovate and transform them into the luxurious abodes they were looking for.
On the show, the brothers renovate their clients’ homes.
The brothers adapt to the needs of their customers. And in most of the episodes, which have been on TV since 2010 (first Canadian, then American and in 150 countries some time later) they begin by showing the “needy” a home that serves as inspiration. Here, for example, we have a story.
My house is now “coastal”
Imagine: You buy a half-house in Franklin, USA, you paint it, and ten years later a producer sees it and thinks “Hmm, this is a good inspirational house for Jonathan and Drew …”. This happened to Jenny Y Nolan Reimold.
In May 2018, Jenny and her husband, a Major League Baseball player, lent their home to the twins to use as inspiration for an episode. Her house became a real movie set for a few hours.
The Reimold house was an exception. In Hermanos a la obra, inspirational properties are usually on the market, but that of this wedding is not. Nobody wanted to sell or fix their home.
In Latin America, the show is broadcast by Home and Health.
Since the clients in the episode wanted a “coastal” home, the Reimolds added to the magic of the show: they hid personal photos and unapproved artwork and adapted their home to be more in line with the required look, removing the object field and replacing them with the things they had from the time they lived in Florida.
Jenny, for example, removed some wooden boxes and put more coral and sea glass on the shelves, as well as wicker baskets and mangroves.
A day with the Scots
A reporter from the New York Times was with the twins for a full day of filming. He went to a bungalow in Galveston, Texas and described what he saw.
The reporter recounted how Jonathan recorded two or three times, at the director’s request, a moment in which he is surprised to see a toilet and tries to force him out of the bathroom. It seems that on that day the acting of the brother at the opera failed…
A funny scene that day was when the brothers had to reconstruct a situation that happened the night before.
The night before the day of filming with clients, the house to be inspected was missing a chimney: the wind had blown it off the side of a car on the sidewalk. Since this obviously wasn’t recorded, a recreation was made.
The Scots have a celebrity spin-off.
With the storm far enough away, the director asked for extras to work as workers, so a group of traders went out onto the street and pretended to be working on a construction site. At that moment the director gave the signal: “Outbreak”, he shouted. Drew then pretended to be surprised and ran out of the house, looked at the fireplace pretending to be scared, rubbed his eyes and … “Take 2!” And so, two more times.
Don’t let anything come out of the script
In the classic Property Brothers and its tens of thousands of spin-offs, the Drews are constantly interacting with millionaires who want to renovate their mansions. On the screen you can see fun comings and goings where extracurricular topics about the real estate sector are touched upon.
The truth is, according to the CheatSheet medium, that the Scots are far from being friends with their customers. Of the six weeks that the renovations last, they only see families for eight days, and many of these have to jointly record the reactions seen later in the program. Yes, several times each reaction.
Producers have a hostile job: They check that nothing is out of the script, even the fighting moments found in some episodes. To make catastrophe inevitable, these folks remind Scots to highlight their clients’ opinion clashes in the past.
They also have a show where they face off.
In turn, production won’t work with singles. All the ordinary people who appear on the show are married couples because everything is more “televised”.
The same thing happens with Jonathan and Drew’s work. It seems they are indeed brothers in the play, but they have nothing of Mario and Luigi. As indicated by the aforementioned media, the program hires local construction teams for the different renovations and these are the ones who do the hard work behind the scenes.
And the worst of all that CheatSheet throws, the cruelest of all, is not that the Property Brothers decorate their homes with items that are then discarded, but that they would only repair four rooms per villa and that customers have to choose between the bathroom and the kitchen.
Currently, Hermanos a la obra is broadcast in Latin America from Home and health (cable). The Scott shows available for now are “Brothers on the Job” and “Brothers on the Job: Challenge,” in which Drew and Scott battle it out to raise the price of the homes they are renovating.
Nicola Mancini
Source: Clarin
