Buying London on Netflix should be the nail in the coffin for reality TV’s wealth obsession

Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter for all the latest entertainment news and reviews Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter Sign up to our free IndyArts newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. There was the scene in which Daniel Daggers, founder of the show’s central luxury estate agency DDRE Global, declares that “there’s no ‘I’ in team… but there is an ‘I’ in super-prime”, like high-end property’s answer to David Brent. The success of Netflix’s Selling Sunset, in which an almost parodically glamorous coterie of female agents take brief breaks from moaning about one another to sell multimillion properties in Los Angeles, has spawned a whole extended universe of property shows on the streamer, in locations ranging from the Hamptons to Paris. And last year, the BBC aired Crazy Rich Agents, which doubled up as an excuse for cameras to nose around some of the UK’s most expensive homes; the broadcaster also launched Dubai Hustle, a show about “young Brits fight to make it to the top of the glitzy world of Dubai real estate”. open image in gallery Dissonant: it’s hard to become invested in the show’s manufactured storylines London is in the grip of a housing crisis right now.