Weekend TV: Dream Builders, Resurrection, Girls Finale

Lena Dunham | Photo Credits: Mark Schafer/HBO

In what initially comes off as a Habitat for Inhumanity — fueled by reality-competition juices that upstage the do-gooder impulse of neighborhood home renovation — NBC’s derivative American Dream Builders takes its visual cues from Extreme Makeover Home Edition (airing in that show’s old time period, Sundays at 8/7c), complete with an elaborate weekly reveal, although the only bus here is the one the contestants repeatedly throw each other under. Dream Builders‘ emotional dynamic is more attuned to Celebrity Apprentice in its nightmare blueprint of clashing egos getting in the way of a job well done.

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