If you have ever watched Selling Sunset, you will know exactly what to expect with Selling the OC (Netflix). Unfortunately, I had not. I went into it blind and was soon in a state of nervous collapse from which I do not expect to recover any time soon.
To explain. Selling Sunset was – still is, in fact, as it’s now in its fifth Netflix season and has been renewed for a sixth and seventh – a reality TV show set in the glitzy LA offices of high end real estate brokerage firm the Oppenheim Group, owned and run by twins Brett and Jason who have the looks and vibes that suggest worryingly close genetic ties to Voldemort. The Gucci-clad agents survive and seem somehow even to thrive in a maelstrom of ambition, personal enmities, borderline affairs, treacheries, bitching and Botox of an intensity that would fell any English person – and possibly quite a few non-Californians.
