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Ryan Serhant’s return to reality TV is official. Unlike Million Dollar Listing, where Serhant got his start, this show is solely focused on his eponymously named brokerage, SERHANT, and it’s on Netflix, rather than Bravo.
The show follows 11 New York City SERHANT agents with various experience levels at the less than 5-year-old brokerage, which boasts bespoke penthouses, new developments and a reality TV-seasoned leader. From there, the drama ensues, but within the folds of real estate, unlike other real estate reality TV shows, as Inman’s Lillian Dickerson pointed out.
If you’re not yet acquainted with the brand new cast, read “Meet the SERHANT. agents on Netflix’s ‘Owning Manhattan.’”
But if you’re ready to rehash some of the most memorable storylines of the season, read on.
Spoiler Alert: Here’s your fair warning that there will be spoilers below.
The rookie’s rough road
If you are a real estate agent, you probably can relate to young Savannah Gowarty. As the season kicks off, she’s the newest agent of the cast.
“Savannah is one of our newest agents. She’s a Southern belle,” Ryan Serhant says in a poor imitation of a Southern accent. “I saw a unique personality in her, a real hunger to survive and thrive. And so I told her that she could join our firm under what we call our Apprentice Program.”
Because Serhant saw potential in her, Gowarty left the custom homebuilder she worked for and moved to the Big Apple. This is a far cry from the slower-paced life she’s used to in North Carolina, where, as she points out to her colleague…