I've always enjoyed watching Nicole Curtis and her Rehab Addict series. Seeing a series of episodes involving different parts of a house under renovation allowed her to go into some detail and also we got to see her personality along with her interaction with her crew. The new series Rehab Addict Rescue is different. Each hour-long episode has her diving into a stalled reno and taking it to some level of completion. It's a decent idea but stumbles in a few areas. Everything gets crammed into a single episode so things feel rushed or glossed over. What gets done often seems to be not what she wants to do but what the homeowners want, which is sometimes not great. None of the clients have much to spend so you get some compromised results. As a result none of the finished products have much of the Nicole feel or look. Some of them are pretty awful actually, with ugly colours or amateur artwork that would need to be painted over. Pieces used sometimes appear magically from her warehouse and get installed, which is nice but not something that a viewer would be able to do. And everything seems rushed, unfinished, and sometimes the results look very sloppy. I hope Nicole returns to her previous format and allows herself to do better work at a slower pace so we can enjoy her on-camera personality.
