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The reunion takes a season off.
The reunion special takes a season off, and a new agent joins the roster in its place.
A rhythm worth tracking.
Season 8 welcomes Alanna Gold to the Oppenheim Group as a new agent, and releases all eleven episodes at once rather than staggering them. The season also breaks from recent form: it's the first entry since Season 4 without a standalone reunion special, ending — at least for now — the two-part structure the show had used since Season 5. The roster otherwise stays consistent with Season 7's lineup.
The #09 slot.
Slot #09 of 9 in the Selling Sunset Editor's Canon. Season 8 adds Alanna Gold to the Oppenheim Group's roster and drops all eleven episodes at once, but its defining move is a subtraction: no standalone reunion special, the first time the show has skipped one since Season 4. That's a real step back from a format hook the canon has treated as a hinge point ever since Season 5 introduced it — the reunion gave every prior season a second stage to work through what aired, and this one doesn't get it. A new agent and a same-day episode drop aren't nothing, but they don't make up for losing the structural piece the show has otherwise relied on since Season 5.