Selling Sunset is the most tone-deaf show on TV – and it works

Netflix’s series about an LA estate agency is both unapologetic property porn and brilliant escapism for tough timesEven with all of anguish 2020 has wrought, the inevitableclosure of the Argos catalogue still felt like a blow when it was announced in July. Although I can’t remember the last time I flicked through one, it once interested me more than any magazine. For many kids, it was a magic book that transported you into another, more affluent, realm, where Furbys roamed the land in abundance and Hot Wheels cars in every shade lined the streets.Like most things, it has been made redundant by the internet: video killed the radio star and unboxing videos killed the Argos catalogue. Working-class kids today experience that same sense of yearning more vividly and digitally, watching other children opening toys and playing with them on YouTube instead. Such videos are big business: Ryan Guan, the eight-year-old star of the channel Ryan’s World, topped Forbes’ YouTubers list in 2019, earning £26m (20m) that year. Continue reading…
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