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Buying London on Netflix review: Gossip! Intrigue! Infighting! Selling Sunset comes to the capital

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When the first season of Selling Sunset aired in 2019, it was perfect escapist TV. “They could NEVER do something like this in London!” I muttered, enthralled by the sunshine-filled LA mansions and the fashion-forward cast swishing their hair extensions as they held plastic surgery-themed parties for fellow brokers.

London’s estate agents, by contrast, are a fairly tame bunch with their M&S suits and receding hairlines, and the weather decidedly un-Californian. How wrong I was. Buying London shows the Netflix formula can indeed translate across the pond.

Instead of the Oppenheim Group, we have

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