This show is at its absolute best when it oscillates wildly between displays of incredible aesthetic beauty and the coldhearted, world-ending evil that makes it possible. Even the name, Selling Sunset, suggests the commodification of a beautiful end. It can be poetry when it gets there, and these episodes get as close to this as I’ve seen this season. It helps a lot that we finally get a scene where everyone currently employed at the brokerage is in the same room. The Welcome Sandra/Poor Mary dinner hits all the right notes, like the refrain of a beloved song. First, Jason toasts to the fact that their jobs are “probably more rewarding now than ever because we are helping displaced families.” This is a really cute way to describe already wealthy people not charging sales commissions to

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