The never-ending pandemic has again dented any new year travel plans. But at least our favourite TV shows have provided an outlet for our overcharged wanderlust.
Here’s a tour of the on-screen homes, resorts and ranches we coveted during a year of home-bound bingeing. At this point, even the infamous Pineapple Suite looks enticing.
Succession (Binge)
What: The Tuscan villa where the Roy kids gather for their mother’s wedding.
Where: Sovicille, Tuscany.
Kendall Roy (Jeremy Strong), under the Tuscan sun.Credit:Binge
Season three’s gripping conclusion – a Tuscan wedding where everything, as ever for the Roy kids, fell apart – had a stunning backdrop to contrast the ugly plot twist.
It was filmed at Villa Cetinale, a 17th century building located in Sovicille in Tuscany, just 12 kilometres west of Siena. If you happen to have Logan’s finances, the 13-room villa is available for private rental; you’ll also get the personal services of a chef and wait staff included, who you can berate for the full Roy experience.
Only Murders in the Building (Disney+)
What: The Arconia, the titular building where Charles, Oliver and Mabel (and Sting) live.
Where: Manhattan, New York.
Charles-Haden Savage (Steve Martin) outside the fictional Arconia.Credit:Craig Blankenhorn/Hulu
If you’d like to make a morning omelette (and immediately bin it) in Charles-Haden Savage’s (Steve Martin) slick kitchen, you can’t – the show’s intricately designed rooms are just sound stage sets. At least the fictional Arconia pictured in external shots is real.
The building is the Belnord, a pre-war behemoth located at 225 W 86th St in Manhattan’s Upper West Side. “The setting is based on a conglomeration of buildings where the courtyards take up an entire city block. There are not many of them left in the city and they are kind of unicorns,” the show’s production designer Curt Beech told Architectural Digest. It makes a picturesque backdrop for murder (and podcasting).
Morning Wars (Apple TV+)
What: Disgraced anchor Mitch Kessler’s Italian hideaway.
Where: Pasadena, California.
Mitch Kessler (Steve Carell) and Alex Levy (Jennifer Aniston) enjoy a drink in his “Italian” retreat.Credit:Apple TV+
The supposed Lake Como villa where Mitch (Steve Carell) hides away after being fired following his sexual assault allegations isn’t in Italy at all – it’s actually the Villa del Sol d’Oro in Los Angeles’ Sierra Madre Mountains, just outside Pasadena. In real life the property is a Catholic high school, and was also featured in Guns N’ Roses’ iconic November Rain music video – which, let’s face it, is way cooler than Morning Wars.
The Great (Stan*)
What: Catherine and Peter’s Winter Palace.
Where: Italy, England and, surprisingly, not Russia.
For a series centred on the longest-reigning female ruler in Russia’s history, The Great’s “occasionally true story” mantra extends to its locations, which, while breathtakingly opulent, are decidedly not Russian.
The main stand-in for Catherine (Elle Fanning) and Peter’s (Nicholas Hoult) Winter Palace is La Reggia di Caserta, an 18th century palace located half-an-hour outside Naples and famed for its wondrous gardens, while various internal shots were filmed in England at Hatfield House in Hertfordshire and Castle Howard in Yorkshire. The vodka’s surely Russian, though – huzzah.
Catherine (Elle Fanning) in The Great’s lavish Winter Palace.Credit:Hulu
Emily in Paris (Netflix)
What: Emily’s apartment.
Where: Paris’ Latin Quarter.
We’d be Instagramming all day too if we lived in Emily’s (Lily Collins) apartment.Credit:Netflix
Sure, it’s a cluttered walk-up with no air conditioning that’s been polluted by Emily’s (Lily Collins) obnoxious energy, but it’s still full of classic Gallic charm. The real-life apartment block is located in Paris’ Place de l’Estrapade in the fifth arrondissement, in a small square boasting a patisserie whose head baker is surely starting to tire of being seduced by young American tourists in loud outfits.
The White Lotus (Binge)
What: The White Lotus resort.
Where: The Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea in Hawaii.
Ignore the annoying patrons and staff and the White Lotus resort isn’t so bad, right?Credit:HBO
For anyone who finished The White Lotus jonesing for a trip to the fictional resort’s real-life Hawaiian counterpart, a valuable lesson: maybe don’t furiously insist on the Pineapple Suite, lest you want to find an awkward surprise in your suitcase.
In any case, there is no real Pineapple Suite – according to travel magazine Town & Country, that was just a tackily redecorated version of the Four Seasons’ Lokelani Presidential Suite, which rents for $US26,000 ($36,300) a night. At that price, you’d probably turn into a horrible, entitled tourist too?
Yellowstone (Stan)
What: Dutton Ranch.
Where: Darby, Montana.
It’s not like any of us would necessarily want to spend time with maniacal patriarch John Dutton (Kevin Costner) on his familial hell-ranch, but the allure of a log cabin surrounded by a crisp mountain landscape is strong.
Yellowstone’s Dutton Ranch: a log cabin, mountain landscape, and Kevin Costner.Credit:Stan
Located just a few hours from Yellowstone National Park in Montana, the real-life property where the ridiculously popular series is filmed is the Chief Joseph Ranch and, amazingly, it takes holiday reservations (when it’s not booked out due to production). Imagine walking out on your porch for a morning coffee and seeing Costner hoofing past in a cowboy hat and blue jeans. It’s every grandma (and Trumpist’s) dream.
You (Netflix)
What: Joe and Love’s suburban home.
Where: 6301 Orion Avenue, Van Nuys, California.
Penn Badgley in You: a perfect suburban home for a sociopath.Credit:Netflix
With its unassuming white picket fence and pristine shrubbery, this really is the perfect home for two sociopaths (and their newborn) looking to reinvent themselves as the happy, suburban ideal.
The real-life property, built in 1951, boasts four bedrooms, four baths, and the same stunning stone-top kitchen island that made you so envious of Love’s (Victoria Pedretti) baking chops on the show. But you’ll need to install your own basement dungeon for unannounced captives.
Master of None (Netflix)
What: Denise and Alicia’s upstate New York cottage.
Where: A sound stage in East London.
Denise (Lena Waithe) and Alicia (Naomie Ackie) dance to Black Box in their internal laundry.Credit:Netflix
Perhaps the most depressing of TV magic reveals, it turns out Denise (Lena Waithe) and Alicia’s (Naomi Ackie) delightfully cluttered two-storey farmhouse in upstate New York is a complete fabrication, constructed on a sound stage in London and made to resemble the sort of dwellings you might find in Phoenicia, the sleepy village in the Catskill Mountains.
Still, might as well take the stunning interior design as inspiration and craft your own soulful dining room for rustic pasta cook-ups and an internal laundry where you can joyfully dance to Black Box’s Everybody Everybody.
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