Selling the City

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).

You would think we're in the 2000s. Jason and Brett Oppenheimer Have a knack for hiring the same type of female agent. Surprised we're still promoting it like it's something great. It's clearly all about looks. And cleverage. Everyone here is the same. All interchangeable. They all talk like a Kardashian valley girl. Vapid. Self entitled. Everyone is here for fame.

The real estate is so buried in the background. You barely have anything resembling real estate. The Opponheim Group should be embarrassed.

The soundtrack is super annoying.

I hope Steve Gold got paid a lot of money. He looks so lost in this and his dignity is depleting.

Netflix keeps scrapping the bottom of the barrel for taste. To think people worship them is beyond idiotic.

They are making shows for low IQ.

I thought its gonna be similar to Owning Manhattan, with negotiation strategies, beautiful locations, real life work situations. But this show is wasting of time. Instead of enjoying luxury real estate, I was forcing myself to watch hoping its gonna be better. All I saw unprofessional soap drama, cheap looks, tacky makeups with lashes most New York woman would never wear. This show is very similar to Selling Sunset, which I stopped watching after half episode. Instead of real estate It was mostly about overdone girls and their tacky drama. These guys made the whole real estate industry look like trash, can't believe someone paid to make this show. Will never watch season 2.

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.

As a guy who had to buy several apartmens in different countries, I actually found the first episode of the first season of this show quite educational. While it was sleep-inducing because of its extreme stupidity, it's still valuable material. If even you only have to watch a single episode to have enough of it. First off, these vultures actually take about 3% commissions off any apartment they sell. And for what? For sitting all dressed up in an office and getting driven by their drivers to the apartment just to show it to you? Well, I guess there is lots of tricky paperwork that someone in the backoffice or elsewhere does, so you'd be better off hiring them than working with the seller directly? Anyways, they are certainly trash. Much more than I used to think from dealing with several real estate agents in my life (no, not the "elite" ones). I would never ever want to have any people like that in my life. And I'd sooner kill myself than marry anyone like that. Actually, they aren't even young. Probably in their late 30s? Since they keep mentioning stuff that happened 10 years ago, and they already were in this industry. The main message of this show however is probably not something you'd expect. It's to stay away from New York because it's clearly in a bubble and is uninvestable. The way these girls are thriving on this bubble is just appauling. You don't want to buy into that. Instead, you should buy when these girls go bankrupt cuz there are no sales. One funny sentence I'll remember from this show is "you have to know luxury to sell luxury". Exactly the way of thinking of a vulture. Avoid vultures and parasites.