We’ve Ranked Every ‘Selling Sunset’ Season From Best To Worst
The past five seasons of Selling Sunset have been a j-o-u-r-n-e-y. We’ve been through so much with the gals: from weddings and babies to divorces and truly some of the best fights to ever play out on reality TV.
While it’s been a minute since the last season was released, it’s fortunately that time of year again, meaning that a whole new Selling Sunset season is about to drop for our viewing (or more accurately, bingeing) pleasure.
If you’re already here then you’ll probably agree with me that Selling Sunset is arguably Netflix’s best release ever. BUT we must remember that not all seasons were created equal. Will the impending drop be spicier than a double jalapeno marg? Or will the series sink and burn without Christine Quinn’s savage one-liners?
After some lengthy internet sleuthing (and a considerable amount of time spent watching the Season 6 trailer on loop), I can’t definitively answer that just yet. What I can do is take you on a trip down memory lane through each season which I’ve ranked from all-night binge-worthy to total snoozefest. And no, this list is not up for debate.
Every season of Selling Sunset ranked from best to worst:
Number 1: Season 4
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Season 4 starts strong with no Davina in sight and a bright, shiny new woman called Emma Hernan. Emma used to be a real estate agent but left the job to focus on a range of vegan empanadas. She returned to The O Group to promote her vegan empanadas become a part of Selling Sunset, and quickly becomes buddy-buddy with Chrishell aka Christine’s longtime nemesis.
In next-to-no-time Emma and her innocent empanadas quickly become embroiled in peak Selling Sunset drama when it was revealed that her current fiancé previously dated Christine. Emma doesn’t really care, but Christine d-e-f-i-n-i-t-e-l-y does (even though she just married a different millionaire).
Hell ensues, and in one scene Christine blocks in Emma’s car before going batshit cray at her.
Later, Christine randomly declares that she and her ex (Emma’s fiancé) were once engaged and Emma is wearing her ring. Mary is super confused by this piece of information as she was besties with Christine at the time and she never heard a whisper about a proposal. Regardless, Christine sticks to her story and slowly loses all of her friends/co-stars as none of them believe her and take Emma’s side.
Meanwhile, in other Christine news, she also popped out her baby via c-section but was accused of faking her pregnancy because she was shown doing a headstand at yoga just days after supposably giving birth.
Number 2: Season 3
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Season 3 is SAD, but it’s also juicy, which definitely gives it a boost in terms of rankings (sorry Chrishell, if you’re reading this).
The drama really kicked off riiiight at the end of episode five when Christine reads a TMZ headline out to her co-workers about Chrishell and Justin Hartley’s divorce and all the women have to pretend to have just heard it for the first time.
A heartbroken Chrishell is found pent up in a Four Seasons suite crying her eyes out while being comforted by Mary. She later ups the relatability factor by moving into an actual house and swigging wine out of a ceramic mug while debriefing with her friend and co-worker Amanza about the breakup.
Elsewhere in the season, Mary and Romain start their IVF journey, as she freezes her eggs in the hope to have a child in the future with Romain, which isn’t exactly spicy but here we are.
The season wraps up with Chrstine’s extra-as-hell “gothic winter wonderland” wedding to Christian. Of course, in true Christine Quinn style, she’s dressed in tight black glittery couture, and there are white swans at the ceremony, black swans at the reception, a faux blizzard, and a bleeding cake.
While it looks near impossible to top the drama of Christine’s wedding decor, Davina manages to do just that by cornering Chrishell at the reception and sticking up for Chrishell’s ex-husband — despite having never met him — which sees Chrishell rip off her microphone and storm out.
Number 3: Season 2
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By Season 2, we have well and truly established Christine Quinn as the ultimate Selling Sunset villain and she truly embraced the role in the opening scenes which saw her saunter from a private jet into a shiny Rolls Royce while wearing sparkly Louboutins and a leopard fur jacket. ICYMI, Christine entered her rich-girl era over the break that saw her start dating a super wealthy tech guy called Christian Richard.
Meanwhile, we find out that Heather also found love with a real estate investor and reality star named Tarek El Moussa. The pair later get engaged which is all well and good but, honestly, quite boring.
In spicier happenings, Chrishell and Christine continue to rub one another the wrong way throughout the season, which means one thing: shady fights!!!! We find out that Christine didn’t send Chrishell flowers when her dad passed away and she threw a party (that Chrishell wasn’t invited to) and served a cocktail called “Chrishell’s Two-Faced Tonic”. Ouch.
This relegated Christine even higher on the villain scale and promoted Chrishell to fan fave.
This season also saw the beginning of the worst Selling Sunset storyline ever. Davina found a monstrosity of a house that she wanted to sell for $75 million dollars. She battles her bosses and after being allowed to take the house on (honestly, probably just to shut her up), she has zero, zilch, zip luck at selling it. FYI, that house is still on the market today. RIP me.
Oh yeah, and as well as failing to sell the house she begged for, Davina also managed to get herself uninvited to Mary and Romain’s wedding for mocking Mary’s fake diamond engagement ring (more on that later). It was losses all around for Davina. And in retrospect, she probably just should have given up on the show.
Number 4: Season 5
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Season 5 was expected to be one of the juiciest Selling Sunset seasons ever when the news broke that Chrishell was *shock horror* dating her boss, Jason Oppenheim. And while it wasn’t exactly bad, it certainly didn’t live up to the spiciness of Season 4.
TD;LR: Chrishell and Jason start the season on a loved-up trip in the Greek Islands where they were joined by Mary and Romain along with Brett and his lady love Mary Lou. The rest of the O Group women spend the majority of the rest of the season bitching about their relationships. Chrishell and Jason split up at the end of the season because she wants to start a family and he doesn’t. While the breakup is certainly sad, fear not, dear readers, because Chrishell recently got married to G Flip and is thriving.
In Season 5, we were also shown a fairly boring (read: not scandalous) wedding between Heather and Tarek, and new-girl Chelsea Lazkani joined the group.
Not a whole lot more happened, except for one spicy storyline in which Christine is accused of offering a prospective client $5,000 not to work with her arch-nemesis (and co-worker) Emma. Brett and Jason are pissed when they find out and call her in for a meeting, which she skips out on. Her career is left hanging in the balance, and we later find out the queen of Selling Sunset is leaving the show for good. Boo!
Number 5: Season 1
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Season 1 feels like a bit of a fever dream. Who are these women? Are they actually real estate agents?
A-ny-way!! Season 1 saw Chrishell enter as the new girl on the block, after recently transitioning from being a soap actress to real estate life. For some reason, co-workers Davina and Christine really, really aren’t fans of Chrishell and spend the entire season bitching about her behind her back, saying that she’s fake, and doubting her ability to sell houses. Looking back, this is actually very spooky foreshadowing for the next four seasons.
When Chrishell did, in fact, sell a house for a cool few million in the first few eps, Christine called it “beginners luck” and we officially had lift off on the (never-ending) Chrishell Vs Christine drama.
Despite being pretty busy talking smack about Chrishell behind her back, Davina and Christine found some time to lol at Mary’s relationship, primarily because her partner Romain is twelve years younger than her.
Towards the end of the season, Romain proves the mean queens wrong by proposing to Mary. Rather than celebrating the occasion, killjoy AKA Davina spoilt the moment by judging Mary over the fact that the engagement ring wasn’t a real diamond (which, consequently, got her uninvited to the wedding).
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The new Selling Sunset season drops on Netflix on Friday, 19 May.