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Selling the OC

Selling the OC is an American reality television series on Netflix that follows a group of real estate agents working to establish the Oppenheim Group's second office, in Newport Beach on the Orange County, California coast. It is a spinoff of the unscripted series Selling Sunset, which follows the same brokerage in Los Angeles, and it premiered on August 24, 2022.¹^•²

Key fact	Detail
Format	Unscripted reality series following 11 agents hired at the Oppenheim Group's Orange County office to land listings and close deals on high-end properties³
Premiere	August 24, 2022, on Netflix¹
Run	Four seasons of eight episodes each, 32 episodes total; the final episode aired November 12, 2025⁴
Central figures	Twin brothers Jason and Brett Oppenheim, who founded the Oppenheim Group in 2015, open and run the new office⁵^•⁶
Creator	Adam DiVello, executive producer, who earlier created the Orange County docusoap Laguna Beach⁷
Rating	TV-MA; IMDb users rate the series 5.8/10 across about 2,200 ratings⁵^•⁸
Current status	Production paused in April 2026, with no season 5 announced as of September 2026⁹^•¹⁰

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Premise and production

The series centers on the Oppenheim Group's expansion south of Los Angeles. Twin brothers Jason and Brett Oppenheim, who founded the brokerage in 2015, opened a branch in Newport Beach, and the show follows a new roster of agents competing to establish themselves at the second office.⁵^•⁶ Netflix announced the spinoff in November 2021, when Variety reported that production had just begun; season 1 was filmed from late 2021 into early 2022.² Viewers first saw the OC agents at the contentious Selling Sunset season 4 finale party, and Sunset season 5 included a tour of the new office.⁷

Series creator Adam DiVello had made his name with Laguna Beach, a docusoap about Orange County teenagers, and returned to the area for this series. He deliberately built a mixed cast of men and women, a departure from Selling Sunset, whose main cast outside the Oppenheim family is female. Jason Oppenheim had decided to open the Orange County office before a show was planned, and DiVello's team worked alongside him as he hired the agents who became the cast.⁷

The season 1 cast included Jason and Brett Oppenheim, Alex Hall, Alexandra Jarvis, Alexandra Rose, Austin Victoria, Brandi Marshall, Gio Helou, Kayla Cardona, Lauren Brito, Polly Brindle, Sean Palmieri, and Tyler Stanaland.¹ The Oppenheim Group's Orange County office operates in Corona del Mar and is regularly featured on the series.¹⁰

Seasons

Seasons 1 through 3. Season 1 premiered in August 2022, season 2 arrived in September 2023, and season 3 premiered in May 2024.⁵ Netflix renewed the show for a fourth season in January 2025, nearly eight months after season 3 began streaming, and creator Adam DiVello said a lot had changed in the agents' real lives, with "a lot of new faces" joining.¹¹

Season 4. The fourth season premiered on November 12, 2025. Its storyline follows the agents as they try to establish their office as the top brokerage within the Oppenheim Group, with competition for high-stakes listings and rumors dividing the team; Jason Oppenheim also enlists agents from San Diego. New agents Fiona Belle, Ashtyn Zerboni, and Kaylee Ricciardi joined returning cast members including Alex Hall, Polly Brindle, Tyler Stanaland, Gio Helou, Austin Victoria, and Brandi Marshall.¹² In an interview with the real estate trade publication Inman, Jason Oppenheim called it the most dramatic season filmed and credited the strength of the Newport Beach luxury market, citing a PropertyShark report that placed all six of the city's ZIP codes in the country's most expensive 100.¹³

Reception

Critical response has been mixed. Rotten Tomatoes lists an average Tomatometer of 44 percent and a Popcornmeter audience average based on more than 100 ratings.⁵ The Los Angeles Times described the series as a celebration of Southern California excess that combines over-the-top real estate, clothes, and personas, and noted that adding male realtors to the main cast was the main difference from its predecessor.¹⁴ Common Sense Media describes the show as featuring high-end properties and upscale lifestyles, with the interpersonal drama typical of the franchise.³

Politics and the production pause

The series drew political attention in September 2025, when original cast member Alex Hall posted an Instagram Story calling the political commentator Charlie Kirk "the MLK of our generation" following his shooting. Marie Claire characterized Selling the OC as having long been seen as the conservative counterpart to Selling Sunset, with viewers learning cast members' political views mainly through social media.¹⁵

In April 2026, TMZ reported that the cast had been notified they would not film that year, and Netflix paused production. Reporting attributed the pause not to cast drama but to a cast shakeup and filming snag on Selling Sunset, which Netflix prioritized; no final decisions had been made about the OC series returning, and the cast worried the pause could be permanent.⁹ Cast member Alex Hall confirmed on her podcast in June 2026 that the show was not filming another season, and Netflix had not announced a season 5 renewal as of September 2026.¹⁶^•¹⁰

References

Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Celebrity, family, lifestyle, and court reality series › Lifestyle, dating, and docusoaps › Wealth, real estate, and lifestyle series

Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 3, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026

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