To wit: Nick, the Vasiliou father, explains to a lesbian couple who are friends of the Wixxes that he believes that he’s in the home of a single mom: “I didn’t see a lot of husband, man stuff around. Later, all parties meet friends of their counterparts and share what their assumptions had been.
(Among the first episode’s chewiest and most well-drawn elements are the Wixx parents’ attempts to create new traditions, and their anxiety over having lost ties to ancestral foodways and religious practices, due to the rupture of slavery the Vasilious, in their time on camera, have far less with which to grapple.)
The Wixxes explore Greek Orthodox practices, while the Vasilious undergo a guided meditation while holding crystals. This fellow, who is Greek-American, takes up residence briefly with his wife and four children in the home of the Wixxes, a Black lesbian couple raising three children.įor some time, the families are left to ponder what their counterparts’ lives must be like, using the home decor as general guide. The episode provided begins with the Vasiliou family’s patriarch saying “I think no matter what culture you are, no matter what religion you are, we’re all humans, and we should all love each other.” This is not excessively complicated over the next 40 minutes.
This is a low-fi, comforting watch that is persistent and pleasant, built towards small-scale acknowledgments not that our differences are jarring but that our similarities are fundamental. The interactions between the two families in an episode provided to critics seem studiously tamped-down, even as the standards of reality TV have grown somewhat less wild since “Wife Swap’s” heyday. “Home Sweet Home,” created by Ava DuVernay and produced by her ARRAY Filmworks shingle, is unlikely to cultivate similarly massive personalities.
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