{"id":62280,"date":"2025-12-05T22:23:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62280\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T22:23:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T22:23:19","slug":"stream-it-or-skip-it-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/62280\/","title":{"rendered":"Stream It Or Skip It?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Season 2 of Owning Manhattan hits Netflix a year and change after Ryan Serhant\u2019s big move to the platform from Bravo and the Million Dollar Listing<\/a> universe. In the interim, he returned to And Just Like That\u2026<\/a>, his namesake firm\u2019s agents became breakout<\/a> stars<\/a> \u2013 and the real estate reality world added even more competitors<\/a>. But in the real world, SERHANT was also going way bigger. Billions in listings, more billions in sales, a team growing by leaps and bounds, and with that, plenty more pushback in perception and industry pressure. And yet, you\u2019ll rarely see Serhant sweat it. In Owning Manhattan Season 2, he says, \u201cWe\u2019re moving our turf uptown.\u201d<\/p>\n

OWNING MANHATTAN<\/a> \u2013 SEASON 2: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?\u00a0<\/p>\n

Opening Shot: \u201cNice is in my DNA.\u201d We\u2019re back shadowing Ryan Serhant for Season 2 of Owning Manhattan, and he\u2019s telling us how SERHANT\u2019s massive growth has created a more money more problems situation. With growth comes attacks, and more haters. He\u2019s still nice, but: \u201cNow I\u2019m on offense.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The Gist: Like in his pursuit of new blood. Serhant\u2019s got a splashy, glassy new contender to rival the $250 million-dollar property that dominated Owning Season 1: 200 Amsterdam, a gleaming thumb jutting over the Upper West Side, where he\u2019s brokering the whole damn building, full-floor unit by full-floor unit. (What could you do with 5,000 square feet of amenity packages?) To make this happen, the CEO\u2019s looking outside his stable of successful agents, and his eyes light up when he talks landing Peter Zaitzaff as sales director. This guy\u2019s already established. A titan of New York City lux real estate. As Serhant\u2019s pitch commences, on a terrace overlooking Central Park, you can feel it. Peter\u2019s already got the sauce, so why does he need Ryan\u2019s sweetener?<\/p>\n

Speaking of Season 1, the interpersonal agent dramas that started there have not ended here. Over a dinner that seems to consist entirely of martinis and fruit, Jade Shenker spills her lingering haterade toward Chloe Tucker Caine all over Jordan March. And at SERHANT, in the bullpen, Nile Lundgren, Jordan Hurt, and Jessica Taylor conduct a gossip session that\u2019s ostensibly about who will land 200 Amsterdam \u2013 they know nothing about the boss\u2019s Peter pitch \u2013 but is mostly about flaunting their respective egos. It\u2019s not unique to Owning Manhattan, or even the real estate reality sector. But the personalities on this show are particularly skilled at saying one thing and meaning something else. Usually something selfish.<\/p>\n

SERHANT isn\u2019t just making moves in Manhattan. Owning Season 2 will also see the firm finding its way down the Eastern Seaboard to Miami. And with a precedent for upheaval set by Ryan\u2019s late-innings canning of Jonathan N\u00f8rm\u00f8lle<\/a>, and with Jonathan\u2019s departure holding space for a new office villain \u2013 actually, who knows, he and his tats might even return \u2013 we\u2019re very much down to see how a larger-format firm, with even more top-down pressure to perform, turns up the heat on these agents who all think they\u2019re god\u2019s gift to selling.<\/p>\n

\"'Owning Photo: Brian Zak \/ New York Post<\/p>\n

What Shows Will It Remind You Of? How much time ya got? The aspirational lifestyle\/real estate porn reality pattern is so clogged, it demands we think about the inevitable next sector to be exploited. But for now, Selling Sunset<\/a>, Selling the OC<\/a>, and Selling the City<\/a> are all flying high.<\/p>\n

Our Take: At the top of Owning Manhattan Season 2, when Ryan Serhant says \u201cThere\u2019s a difference between being nice and being weak,\u201d it\u2019s right in line with our sense of him. He sells that line like he sells boffo properties: with a natural niceness, aggressively supercharged. But at the same time, it\u2019s a line that feels written in a lab, the same way how, a minute later, Serhant breaks the fourth wall on a reality show. A supposed hard line between \u201cnice\u201d and \u201cweak\u201d is a construct, just like how the interpersonal spats on Owning Manhattan can feel. The big boss is skilled enough in the reality space to project his personality in exclamation point form, while still feeling genuine. But just like how he can\u2019t front-face every property as CEO, he can\u2019t prevent Owning from drifting into same-y reality territory whenever he\u2019s not on camera.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Even if the positions a lot of this show\u2019s principals hold feel archetypal, especially with so many similar series filling streaming, we still mostly like where they\u2019re coming from. Yet another glitzy space, the latest kazillion-dollar rehab of a vintage building \u2013 honestly, our eyes tend to glaze over. It\u2019s just not interesting. It\u2019s better as a backdrop to all these agents fueling their workday with competing versions of \u201cI\u2019m the best, nobody\u2019s better, don\u2019t even try, come at me bro.\u201d Real estate itself is finite. It\u2019s not about affordability with Owning Manhattan, it\u2019s about availability. And we like watching who will use this cutthroat landscape to avail themselves best.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"'Owning Photo: Everett Collection<\/p>\n

Performance Worth Watching: \u201cI\u2019ve been here since the beginning \u2013 like, I\u2019ve been your most loyal guy.\u201d Jordan March\u2019s industry pedigree is rock solid. But he\u2019s still out here competing for every big whale property. Partly, this is how Ryan Serhant likes it. But for Season 2, the other part is us putting Jordan on Jump Ship watch.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sex and Skin: Nah, but with these people, dressing to the nines is amplified to like ninety. Stories-tall heels, accessorized with bold colors, bassinets and purse dogs. Serhant\u2019s suitcoat with dragonfly appliques. And admixtures of blazers with T\u2019s that show off ink, or are severely tailored to within an inch of the fabric\u2019s life.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Parting Shot: Lots of WTF looks in the room as Ryan Serhant makes a big proclamation to his staff.<\/p>\n

Sleeper Star: We called Chloe Tucker Caine the sleeper star of Owning Manhattan Season 1, and she retains the designation here, and now with her baby daughter Charlie. Chloe called her six months away \u201cmaternity leave,\u201d but the culture of NYC real estate only recognizes that last word. She knows she\u2019s got work to do, getting back in the game. \u201cIn real estate, if you are not closing deals, you are making zero dollars.\u201d<\/p>\n

Most Pilot-y Line: \u201cMy job isn\u2019t just about reeling in the biggest listings anymore. As a CEO, now it\u2019s about reeling in the biggest talent.\u201d That\u2019s cool, Ryan Serhant, but adding new sharks could clog the waters.<\/p>\n

Our Call: STREAM IT. Season 2 of Owning Manhattan is yet another lifestyle real estate reality pageant. But its people, beginning with boss Ryan Serhant, seem to have a penchant for breaking out of the typical boxes, usually in delicious drama phone ways.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Johnny Loftus (@johnnyloftus.bsky.social<\/a>) is a Chicago-based writer. A veteran of the alternative weekly trenches, his work has also appeared in Entertainment Weekly, Pitchfork, The All Music Guide, and The Village Voice.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Season 2 of Owning Manhattan hits Netflix a year and change after Ryan Serhant\u2019s big move to the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62281,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[33128,33129,33130,33101,33131,75,84,83,9,24,63,1491,3296,5045,33132],"class_list":["post-62280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-celebrity-beefs","tag-chloe-tucker-caine","tag-docuseries","tag-jessica-taylor","tag-jordan-march","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-real-estate","tag-reality-tv","tag-ryan-serhant","tag-tv-reviews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62280\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}