Peacock series “The Gentle Art of Swedish Death Cleaning,” narrated by Amy Poehler, takes a deep dive into Americans' obsession with stuff.
, a TEDx speaker and author who calls herself a “happiness psychologist,” acts as a blunt but thoughtful cheerleader. She has frank conversations and cries with everyone as they figure out why they are hanging on to boxes of grandma’s afghans and photo albums full of people they don’t even recognize. “When you go in for everything,” she says in one episode, “you kind of lose everything.”
The death cleaners patiently explain how to use a red and green dot sticker system while decluttering: red for things to get rid of and green for things to save. The subject of death is front and center; some of the people on the show are battling stage four cancers or mourning recently deceased family members. But they speak of it matter-of-factly, not in hushed tones. And there is plenty of black humor thrown in.
Godfrey Riddle, 33, lost both of his parents while battling cancer himself. His parents never told him what was important, so he kept all of their stuff in his own basement grief pit, including their vacuum cleaner and the pan his dad used to make bacon. The death cleaners made him realize he didn’t need to keep these things to keep the memories. “I finally feel like I’m on the path to understanding and to healing,” Riddle says on the show.
Doug Salva, 54, spent years buying tiki bar tchotchkes and overwhelming his tiny kitchen with stacks of expired spices, although he rarely cooked. His fiancee was creeped out by his messy rooms and his owls made out of coconuts and tongue scrapers. He even had boxes of his late ex-wife’s items. The death cleaners helped him cull his collections and installed a wall of shelves in the basement to hold black storage boxes labeled and stamped with QR codes that identify the stored collectibles.
Listening to the real struggles of people and their stuff never gets old. “I knew that you guys were going to declutter my life and my house, I didn’t know you were going to declutter my soul,” says Sanderson on the show. “I mean it’s good, but it hurts, it’s letting go of a lot of stuff. I think you guys have opened up my life by getting rid of my life.”
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