Two approaches to real estate reality TV collide on Netflix’s porch. Made in France, relaxed, chic and eloquent, proven by the series Company For four seasons.
Polished, aggressive and supercharged, the new product delivers, machined in the United States Conquer Manhattan (Owns Manhattan), which is part of the same glossy catalog Sun spare (Sunset Sale), but in New York.
Both methods come with hidden drawbacks that should be carefully examined before going in. Let’s begin Company, which many of you often do. It’s not bad, an overzealous Parisian would say, even if the episodes are always too long and deserve a solid squeeze. Too much dialogue, not enough pictures, you know? Absolutely right.
This is the “tribes” page Company It enchants and differentiates it from its sisters stuck in real estate document form. This Parisian agency is owned by Olivier and Sandrine Cretz, two friendly sixty-year-olds who are gradually handing over control to their four grown children, Martin, Valentin, Louis and Raphael.
A beautiful 90-year-old grandmother, Majo, lives a stone’s throw away and regularly visits the Boulogne-Billancourt mansion, which serves as the Cretz family’s main residence and headquarters.
Kretz are honest, united and fuss-free. The fourth season stirs up “tensions” between the two oldest Martin and Valentine, extra-gentle tensions that don’t explode at the atomic — and artificial, it’s obvious — level. Sun spare.
We connect Company Browse the magnificent Parisian apartments with their high ceilings and spy the dynamics of the Cretches, who present the image of a united and warm clan. This is in stark contrast to professional families that are 100% dysfunctional Sun spare Or Conquer Manhattan.
And when Company Try to follow Sun spare That she is very bad. Why this common English-only pop music? Are there no urban music songs in French that match City of Lights? too Emily in Paris understood him by his indecipherable accent.
And Paris is what fascinates us Company. Not Costa Rica, Marrakech or Barcelona. When Valentine rushes to New York to find an apartment for his two best friends, it’s boring, it’s déjà vu.
Martin, the twin of American actor Scott Foley, stands out when visiting luxury “real estate” on the Rue de Rivoli or Place Vendôme with the posh “singer” Helene in Paris. Poor beggars, show us more of these places we cannot reach!
In the second episode, interior designer Joe de las Casas’ all-white cabin apartment in the 2nd Porce district.e arrondissement, almost straight out of the pages of a decorative magazine. This is what we want company, The discovery of these nails buried in the heart of Paris.
Let’s just say it’s more entertaining than shooting a music video for rapper Dodge in Saint-Machin-les-Bains-en-Laye. It’s rubbish, as they say in 16e arrondissement.
Unlike their American counterparts, the Kretz brothers don’t resemble remote-controlled plastic robots that are emotionless and smell money. Brokers Company Untucked oxford shirts, simple chinos and denim, yes, yes. There are no flashy logos on their clothes. They are often blurred, very natural, with a slightly faded color.
You won’t see anything rolling Conquer Manhattan From Netflix, the competition for the tightest jacket or the tightest dress. This average documentary takes us to the Serhant Agency in the SoHo district, run by 40-year-old Ryan Serhant. Million Dollar Listing New York.
Despite the repetitive and zero original formula, I devoured it in one sitting. Conquer Manhattan, good evening. No one will be surprised. Like Celine, we never change, do we?
In Conquer Manhattan, boss Ryan Serhant, impeccably dressed, knows how to speak to the camera: in short, punchy sentences. But it lacks naturalness. Also wears many bangles. And his ego continues to overflow the frame.
Its employees take on the traditional roles of real estate docs: the blond beginner, Bad boy A Scandinavian (gross!), Broadway actress recycled as a broker (terrible seriousness), rabid gossip on Instagram and a veteran pushed to her limits.
Before opening the doors of the world’s most expensive penthouse at 250 million, these people who never break a sweat, drag their dogs in their handbags and of course spend three hours in the makeup chair.
Jealousy, jealousy, greed, backstabbing, scene Conquer Manhattan Similar to all other clone shows of the same type. This dramatic tension, though it is newly created, inspires the eight episodes it lacks. Company.
once again, Conquer Manhattan Proves to us that money can’t buy good taste or class. Zoé de Las Cases’ cabin apartment Company A thousand times prettier — and ten times cheaper — than the glass cubes stacked up in a scrap yard in Brooklyn.
The cheap pseudo-philosophy that Ryan Serhant spreads about hard work is the most intolerable, sure-fire guarantee of success. “This town will give you everything, but it can also take everything from you,” he recalled in the tone of someone announcing Shakespeare at a church foundation production.
We are silent, Kanto’s Gandhi. Marie Kondo would certainly say to clean up this too heavy and cluttered speech.
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