Netflix’s Get Organized With The Home Edit Is Marie Kondo Meets Queer Eye—And So Satisfying

Reese Witherspoon screams when she sees her Get Organized With the Home Edit makeover. Khloé Kardashian gasps. “Oh, my God!” shouts Eva Longoria. Jordana Brewster shakes her head in disbelief and clutches her heart, gazing at her freezer's new nondairy ice-pop holders. 

Get Organized With The Home Edit is Netflix’s newest reality TV show, subcategory: home improvement, sub-sub category: elegant women ecstatically cleaning up strangers’ homes. The show, which dropped on Wednesday, September 9, is a blend of two other Netflix hits: Tidying Up With Marie Kondo and the Queer Eye reboot. As you can imagine, it’s quite the satisfying watch. 

Produced by Reese Witherspoon’s media company, Hello Sunshine, the series follows organizational gurus Clea Shearer and Joanna Teplin. They’re the founders of the multi-hyphenate brand The Home Edit, an Instagram-centered empire that’s given way to a best-selling book, a product line, a national home organization business, and a long list of loyal celebrity customers. (Kim Kardashian, Mindy Kaling, and Gwyneth Paltrow are all clients.) Their philosophy: form plus function. Their style: rainbow, always. Their personalities: like Lorelai Gilmore if she was best friends with another, equally hardworking Lorelai Gilmore.

If you are an organization freak, the kind of person whose internal monologue only stops screaming when you see a bullet journal, you will love the show. I’m not that person—but I still enjoyed The Home Edit. For me, it’s a series about two sweet, funny women cleaning out someone’s garage.

With their team of other uniformed young women, the Edit bosses reorganize two spaces per episode—one that belongs to a celebrity, another that belongs to a regular family. Where their Netflix predecessor Marie Kondo laid out a spiritual path to help people go from sty to sanctuary, Shearer and Teplin follow a four-step process: edit, categorize, contain, maintain. In practice, this means: make a giveaway pile, put like things together in zones, place those things in clear plastic bins or clear acrylic organizers, and try to keep things neat. The best part? Most of their tactics for organizing spaces—using matching hangers and stacking bins, putting things in rainbow order, keeping everything visible—you can do yourself. So feel free to pull inspo. 

The fact that you can emulate them on your own is a positive thing. For all of us social distancing at home, surrounded by piles of mismatched shoes, this show is extremely relevant viewing. Plus, the celebrity component provides a slice of escape. Exhibit A: Rachel Zoe, whose closet is reorganized in one episode with a “vintage Chanel zone” and an “Hermès zone.” Honestly, a dream. 

Or Exhibit B: Khloé Kardashian, whose garage needs to be reorganized with space for her painting studio, overflow merchandise, and a collection of child-size Mercedes. Meanwhile, a nonfamous family of four needs space in their garage for a children’s play area, a mom’s work space, storage, and an exercise zone—but the room is scattered with boxes filled with the ashes of pet dogs. Shearer and Teplin tackle both projects with equal work ethic and lack of judgment. 

I will say, watching the A-list clutter makeovers is more satisfying and feel-good than the non-famous ones. That’s not the Edit team’s fault—they create functional, good-looking systems. But this is reality TV: If an exhausted pediatrician exposes her literal dirty laundry on screen, I expect the network to shell out. On Queer Eye, makeover subjects get fully remodeled homes, a closet of flattering outfits, about 14 minutes of therapy, an awkward party, and a bowl of guacamole. On Get Organized, a doctor and mother of two gets a couple hours of home cleaning and a footstool from World Market. 

Granted, it’s nice to see the team reorganize the craft closet at a youth center, and do it with the same fervor they apply to Reese Witherspoon’s couture. But in order to achieve that reality makeover “I’m literally weeping” energy, I’ll need more than just a new stack of rainbow contact paper.

Still, hats off to the folks at Netflix, who, in the midst of a historic pandemic, have created massive amounts of content aimed at people confined to their homes, craving stability and comfort. (This show comes on the heels of Selling Sunset season three and the premiere of Million Dollar Beach House, which both offer neat, stainless-steel escapes.)  Get Organized With The Home Edit isn’t quite an interior design masterclass—but it will introduce you to a lot of plastic storage systems… and to two women you wish could be your friends. As far as feel-good TV goes, that’s more than enough. 

Jenny Singer is a staff writer for Glamour. You can follow her on Twitter.