![]() ![]() Her apparent inability to stop opining about her co-stars to gossip reporters has lost her ally after ally, to the extent that it seems like the Oppenheims are constantly hiring agents just to give her someone new to confide in, then alienate. ![]() (It will never stop being funny that these women share half a first name-or that Christine went on to not only marry a man named Christian, but also, er, christen their baby Christian.) A platinum-blonde clotheshorse who’s open about her many cosmetic enhancements, Christine styles herself as a fearless truth-teller among airheaded sycophants. Meanwhile, the O-Group also employs plenty of people who never appear on the show.)Īmid the latter real adversity that the show restrained itself from crassly televising, Chrishell has also faced a contrived nemesis: Christine Quinn. (Though it rarely comes up on camera, most of the cast members have worked as models or actors. The show opened with her arrival at Jason and his twin brother Brett’s Oppenheim Group, a brokerage that specializes in high-end Hollywood homes, and where everyone who isn’t an Oppenheim is a gorgeous, designer-clad woman who has never worn shoes with less than a 4-inch heel. And that, I’m increasingly certain, is what keeps so many of us watching.Įvery fairy tale needs its heroine, and in Sunset, that role-which surely demands as much acting as any scripted soap-opera part-is played by bright-eyed, bubbly Chrishell. There has been no shortage of real-estate shows, dating shows, or shows about rich, cliquey women in the history of reality television, but this precise combination of elements is unique. Updated for the 21st century with flashes of girlboss feminism and flickers of prosperity gospel, this is a bedtime story populated by beautiful woman striving to secure wealth, power, and love-to, essentially, become the contemporary American equivalent of a princess. As such, it has the spooky ability to short-circuit (mostly but not exclusively female) minds that absorbed Cinderella and Snow White before they could speak in full sentences. Although its genre is docusoap, and every episode provides copious quantities of the backstabbing and smack-talking native to the form, Sunset can just as accurately be described as a reality-TV fairy tale. ![]()
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