Selling the City

It's boring, simple as that, they don't show enough of the properties for sale, most of the people on the show I care nothing about, I can't even remember their names, they are superficial, after the first episode I was kinda into it, but it just went down hill from there, it's good background noise, as I am working from home, I will finish the series because I don't like to leave a show unfinished (I'm on episode 4) but it's just a bland show, heck even selling the oc is better than this, I recommend owning manhattan, it has just the right amount of listings, career driven employees and drama.

The amount of times I hear them talk about themselves is nauseating.

Every five minutes you get bombarded with waves of " I this I that I know I feel I hate I I I" and then a 5 sec head shot of them pouting or shrugging or flipping their hair.

The show is just a collection of scenes where each girl just takes turn to talk about themselves (repeatedly) and the real estate becomes the background.

And the intro and ending of each scene (which takes up almost half the scene) is shots of themselves walking up to the table, door, chair.... Like how many times did they have to shoot that scene? Nothing else but a brain rot show as background while you scroll your phone.

Okay take Selling Sunset, not great a fun "plot" to see the lifestyles of LA people who are notoriously fake and emotionally unavailable. All about the glitz glam and showing homes. And then since the characters are in this world they have small problems of contrived and interpersonal drama about she said this she said that and "I'm richer than you" type of stuff.

THIS IS (sort of) NOT THAT.

There are glimmers of an actual plot! With more meaningful stakes about who these women are as produced characters.

Selling a listing in Selling Sunset is "come with me on my listing" and "X was talking shit."

Selling a listing in Selling the City is "come with me on my listing" and "X was talking shit." AND "Let's make it as a team selling real estate and what does that look like and what does our success mean to us"

A little more on the plot.

A team of female realtors aspiring to be more successful are lead by their successful boss to become even more professionally successful. This professional success is deeply tied to their sense of self worth and social capital amongst their peers.

They are met with doubt and resistance from more established people and women in the field. Multiple dynamics come into play as some of the doubt and resistance comes from allies and colleagues of the boss.

This set up gives a deeper and richer show because of the multiple dynamics: colleague to colleague, mentor to mentee, boss to employees, friend to friend, coworker to coworker.

Yes, its popcorn TV. No, its not a Jane Austen novel.

I like two types of reality tv: feel-good shows like Queer Eye, Biggest Loser, etc., and the more guilty-pleasure type shows where you know there's going to be drama, but that's why you're there, like The Circle, or any of the many, many dating shows out there. This show is just garbage.

I was hoping to see luxury real estate in New York. That's about 5 minutes of the show. The rest is ridiculous drama that is cringy and had me rolling my eyes and saying "grow up". We never really find out if the people buy the apartments they're shown, but we definitely learn that these women still act like they are in high school. There are two guys in the show that seem to just be eye candy, from the slow closeup going up and down the shirtless body of the one guy, to the preview of the two of them playing basketball shirtless (I barely made it through the first episode and refuse to watch the rest).

Despite claiming multi-million sales achievements and being associated with "the best agent in the city," these girls are dressed in a manner that doesn't reflect such success. Their attire seems incongruent with the image typically expected from individuals who are purportedly successful and operating at such a high level. It's surprising to see this juxtaposition between their purported achievements and their choice of clothing, which appears to be quite casual or even disheveled, almost as if they don't care about maintaining a polished, professional image that aligns with their stated accomplishments.