"One Of The Most Devastating Emotional Rollercoasters On Television" - Max Is Shocked!

Max watches on uncharacteristically horrific episode of Grand Designs that has the most tragic of endings!

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Let's continue on the crying there. I want to talk
about things that make you unexpectedly emotional. Ali, Everyone's got
a few things, oh mate, but there.

Speaker 2 (00:09):
Is nothing that doesn't make me cry. Since having kids,
I'm an absolute cry, absolute cry. Like my kids even
know exactly when to turn around in like a murder
mystery show and find me crying.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
Can I recommend then for you not tuning in to watch?
What is I mean? Commonly seen as one of the
most devastating emotional roller coasters on televisions. Grand Designs.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Like their home renovation show with Kevin.

Speaker 1 (00:34):
McLoud with Kevin McLoud, the one and the same where.

Speaker 2 (00:37):
They actually follow someone through the whole process and then
they get to the end.

Speaker 1 (00:40):
God, it hits.

Speaker 2 (00:43):
What were you crying about for that?

Speaker 1 (00:45):
Why should I have been on a bit of Grand
Designs run of late I don't really know how we
ended up in this run. Everyone's seen an episode or
two here or there, but we're deep. We're just like,
what do you want to do now? So we're sort
of going through We're picking random episodes because it's like
twenty five seasons of this beast. We're going you know what,
season seventeen that's not too long ago that the design's outdated,

(01:08):
so we'll go there. Season seventeen. All right, a little
thumbnail that one of the lighthouse looks cool.

Speaker 2 (01:13):
We're doing that, not the lighthouse episode.

Speaker 1 (01:17):
Mate, North Devon, North Devon, Am I right? It's so
we get through this episode and a spoiler alert sorry
if you haven't seen it, but there are twenty five
at seasons. You'll be okay if I give away one episode.
This family of four starts this odyssey to build a massive,

(01:39):
massive house on the coast of North Devon, like looking
over the Atlantic. And it is huge and hugely expensive
from the start because they're all hugely expensive for Grand Designer. Correct,
they're always over budget and what do you know, it
rains in winter always. This is what happens on Grand
Grand Designs. But the further this gets into the episode,

(01:59):
you'll like this. They actually may have finally bitten off
more than they can chew here and it goes. It
starts in twenty and eleven, and initially we're like, god,
that's a long time because this came out in twenty twenty.
So it goes and you see him Kevin comes back
in like twenty fourteen, and there's like Kevin's kids are

(02:20):
through high school, there's no foundations. They're still still they're
still fighting for funding. He goes away. He comes back
two years later. They've built a house next door, so
they can borrow against that house to build the lighthouse
on the seat. It goes, it goes, it goes. At
one point Kevin comes back. Oh no, the marriage has broken.
Oh they got a divorce. So Kevin rolls in and

(02:44):
he's sitting there and it's just him and the dad
of these two children, who, by the way, and our
adults started and they were kids, they're now adults. They
don't live at home anymore.

Speaker 2 (02:52):
I was about to say they'd gone with the wife.

Speaker 1 (02:54):
They're gone. Kevin walks in and then halfway through it's
just like now I noticed that, you know, Hazel's not here.
And he's like, yeah, we got a divorce because of
the stresses and all the pressures of this house. So
he has broken up his marriage, his kids aren't living
at home. Kevin goes away. Gets the end of the episode,

(03:15):
house is unfinished. The dad has no house, he has
no family, and he has like eight million pounds of debt,
Like the most debt.

Speaker 2 (03:25):
Just a lonely man sitting in a half built lighthouse
in North Devon, and Laza and I are sitting there,
going that can't be the end.

Speaker 1 (03:33):
Look it up. Turns out Grand Design's revisited. He goes back,
Kevin goes back. Five years later, the house is built,
still no family, like nine million dollars in debt. It
looks fantastic, but this guy's life is rude.

Speaker 2 (03:49):
It was so sad. It sounds like it is so sad.