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This week: Writer Kate Wagner discusses her research and fascination with architecture's greatest monstrosity: The McMansion. Her website, McMansion Hell, provides comprehensive and hilarious analysis of what makes these garish homes so hideous and why they've come to look the way they do. Some of her annotated diagrams can be seen below as well as on mcmansionhell.com. 00:00 - BTR Today 00:46 - McMansion Hell 02:33 - McMansion Defined 04:57 - Designing a McMansion 07:48 - The Millennium House 10:08 - History of the McMansion 15:18 - Interiors 17:18 - Critique 19:12 - So What? 20:43 - It's Personal 22:48 - Responses 24:02 - Tony Soprano's House 30:12 - Finish