[PREVIEW] 'Selling The City' Is A Funhouse Mirror Of NYC Hustle Culture

Given the success of “Selling Sunset” and “Selling The O.C.,” it was only a matter of time before the franchise spun off all the way to New York City. Enter “Selling The City.”The newest real estate mogul reality show centers on an all-women team of Douglas Elliman agents in New York City, lead by super-agent Eleanora Srugo. Regular readers of the New York Post might know her as a big Eric Adams booster, and viewers of “The Bachelor” may remember her as the realtor that Dale Moss allegedly hooked up with while he was with Clare Crawley. (She and Dale have both strongly denied that this happened.)Eleanora and her associates — Jade Chan, Taylor Middleton, Jordyn Taylor Braff, Abigail Godfrey, and Gisselle Meneses-Núñez — are the consummate girl bosses. They’re selling. They’re dealing. They’re power lunching. They’re all about their business, and most of their closest social ties, at least as portrayed on the show, are related to that business. (The men on the show, Justin Tuinstra and Corcoran agent Steve Gold who was previously on “Million Dollar Listing,” largely take a backseat. Gold, because he takes on the role of naturally charismatic elder statesman, and Justin because he’s deeply uninteresting unless he’s getting into a fight or talking about how maybe he’ll have kids and a wife in Nashville someday on his 40th birthday. 🙄🙄🙄)“Selling The City” is clearly still gaining its sea legs. It’s hard to tell exactly where the show’s emotional core lies, and the plot is not as propulsive as “Selling Sunset’s” was in those first few seasons. However, the show is at its most gripping when we are seeing the most stunning real estate that New York has to offer — so much more variety than in Los Angeles! — and when the women on the show are having surprisingly real and candid conversations about being in their 30s and 40s and figuring out how to make big life decisions about family planning, partnership and career. Taylor is navigating fertility treatments in the midst of a rocky marriage and addiction recovery. Eleanora is single but has frozen her eggs and is very open about her desire for partnership. Jordyn is going through a breakup and wonders if she should be pursuing fertility preservation as she enters her mid-30s. These moments of relatable humanity give us hope that “Selling The City” can really hit its stride if it gets a second season. (Fingers crossed!) In this episode, we discuss what works about the show’s premiere episodes and what doesn’t, and we discuss how it stacks up with the other shows in the “Selling” franchise. Hope you enjoy! XoShare Rich TextIf you liked reading this, click the ❤️ button on this post so more people can discover it on Patreon!Give us feedback or suggest a topic for the pod • Subscribe • Request a free