Selling the City Review 2025 Tv Show Series Cast Crew Online
Eleonora has been a successful individual broker at Douglas Elliman in New York, but with lofty goals to increase her sales, she has assembled a team of brokers who work under her. They include Abi, the youngest and newest, who can be a loose cannon; Jordyn, a cool broker to creative rich types like Trevor Noah, whom she also dated; and Taylor, a southern belle who is successful and clearly one of the more mature brokers of the bunch. There’s also Gisselle, a glamorous single mom from New Jersey, and Justin, who’s not on Eleonora’s team but provides the male energy by sitting with all the women in their open plan office. (He and Eleonora also dated once, and she credits the fact that they had sex with her obsession to lose weight and change her entire image. Her glow-up is something of a running theme throughout the show.) And then there’s Jade, another individual broker not on Eleonora’s team, but who is a close friend to Eleonora and offers her opinion on everyone as if she’s a tour guide to the personalities of the office. (In the same way that Selling the OC has like half a dozen agents named Alex, Selling the City makes my brain hurt with all the people whose first names start with J. Jordyn, Justin, Jade, Gisselle – phonetically speaking, in that case. Lord, help me keep them all straight.)
The formula here is comparable to its sister series: this attractive, competitive group of agents sit around an open office while their boss, who has high expectations of them all, oversees their work and defuses their interpersonal drama. Oh, and of course there are the luxury Manhattan apartment listings throughout that are fascinating to look at but incidental to the plot, in most cases.
Eleonora is not the owner of Douglas Elliman, so she’s more of an Alex Hall or Chrishell Stause than a Brett-or-Jason Oppenheim. She is technically the boss to most of these people, but she’s also peers and friends with people like Jade and Justin, a ploy that allows her to also get caught up in some of the drama rather than remain on the periphery of drama at all times. Case in point: when Jade invites her to a lunch also attended by Taylor, Justin, and fellow agent Steve Gold, who works for the rival Corcoran Group, things become uncomfortable when Jade starts talking about commissions and Eleonora brusquely tells Jade she doesn’t care about high commissions, she cares about matching her buyers with the right home. Jade’s behavior irritates Eleonora, who thinks she’s unprofessional, and when Eleonora leaves the lunch to avoid an argument, Jade goes off on her. From episode one, it’s clear that the friction between these two longtime friends is going to simmer for the whole season.
Early on, Eleonora seems occasionally clumsy in front of the camera, averting her eyes like she forgot that she’s supposed to ignore the lens in her face. Some of her dialogue feels like forced exposition that she hasn’t gotten comfortable delivering. But it also feels as though she has drastically changed her image almost on a quest to perfectly fit the mold of one of these reality realtors we’re familiar with from other shows. The show is filled with “before” photos of her, as if to say, “Just ten years ago, this woman was average, but look at her now!” and she’s proud of shedding that normie chrysalis.
But while it does seem like Eleanora primed herself for TV, she also takes her job seriously and holds herself to certain professional standards, so she isn’t the one who is necessarily cultivating the drama, that’s left to the team she put together and friends like Jade. (By contrast, Jade is a reality TV natural, she will openly offer unsolicited opinions about anyone with ease and polished, petty delivery.) The women on her team all seem smart and good at one they do, with some of their conflicts arising from the methods they use to do their jobs, their varying levels of experience, and who they align themselves with. It’s hard to say who (besides Jade, clearly set up to be the show’s primary antagonist) will cause the most drama, because every cast member has their own “thing” that might create chaos: Jordyn works with celebs and can be a little too casual with clients, Abi is the least experienced and everyone knows it, Taylor is the most successful but that puts her at risk of being poached (maybe even by Jade). As much as the format of the show feels exactly the same as the other shows in the Selling series, the personalities and the NYC backdrop give this version a slightly harder edge.
