- Alex Hall and Tyler Stanaland continue to flirt around a relationship on "Selling the OC" season 3.
- Tyler finalized his divorce from ex-wife Brittany Snow in July 2023.
Season three of "Selling the OC," which premiered Friday, continues to ratchet up the tension in one of the show's most controversial, long-simmering relationships — that between Tyler Stanaland and his Oppenheim Group colleague, Alex Hall.
After Tyler's split from his ex-wife, Brittany Snow, Tyler and Hall's romantic tension on Netflix's "Selling Sunset" spinoff series only grew more intense throughout the show's second season. During a hot tub conversation in the season two finale, Tyler confessed that he has started to feel that he wants more than friendship from his relationship with her.
Season three picks up with… more questions. It seems that the hot tub moment further muddied the waters. Over the course of the season, Tyler and Hall have multiple discussions about their relationship and at least one steamy kiss. And in true "Selling the OC" fashion, the show leaves off on another potential cliffhanger — but this time, Hall's comments after the show may give us a little more closure.
Here's everything we know about whether Tyler and Hall are dating after "Selling the OC" season three.
Tyler and Hall's sexual tension ramped up on 'Selling the OC' season 2
Season one of "Selling the OC," which likely filmed between November 2021 and May 2022, was enough to spark speculation about the nature of Tyler and Hall's relationship — but season two took it to an entirely new level.
Weeks after season one of "Selling the OC" premiered on Netflix in August 2022, Tyler and his then-wife, "Pitch Perfect" star Brittany Snow, announced their split. At the beginning of season two, which was filmed sometime in early-mid 2023, at least in part before their divorce was finalized, Tyler and Hall have a conversation about how he's feeling post-divorce.
"I think there's a lot you can learn from a successful relationship and even more from a divorce," he says. "So, you know."
"Trust me, I am with you on that," Hall says. "My divorce literally almost killed me."
Throughout the season, their close friendship was a subject of scrutiny, with fellow agent Gio Helou joking in season two, episode one that Tyler and Hall would have a child together before he managed to conceive with his wife. Brandi Marshall, another agent, confronts the two of them about their relationship several times over the course of the season.
"Even if I was fucking Tyler, what does that have to do with my business?" Hall says in a confessional in the season two premiere. "At all? I can sell real estate, even if I'm getting laid."
Later, fellow agent Polly Brindle reveals that she and Tyler once kissed in the office. Despite that, Polly tells Hall during a conversation in season two, episode two that she wouldn't be surprised if Hall and Tyler ended up together.
Over the course of the season, the pair's costars regularly discuss their friendship, and Hall and Tyler even joke about it during the office trip to Cabo.
In the season two finale, Hall's family teases the pair about getting together — and after Tyler leaves the conversation, Hall reveals that she wouldn't necessarily be opposed. Then, in the major season two cliffhanger, they make out in a hot tub.
Season 3 is filled with more indecision
The third season picks up after the hot tub kiss. In the first episode, Tyler says that he and Hall aren't a "thing" just yet, but that he's not sure where they stand.
Hall says in the same episode that after their season two kiss, Tyler left on a trip to Fiji and Australia, and they didn't talk much. That made her feel like he "regretted" what had happened, but at the time, she still saw potential in their relationship.
Hall and Tyler have several conversations over the course of season three about their relationship, which Tyler seems initially hesitant to pursue because he doesn't want to ruin their friendship. The problem is, Hall doesn't want flakiness — she wants someone assertive. Tyler briefly fulfills that by kissing her in San Diego at the opening party for the Oppenheim Group's local office, causing other agents to speculate that they spent the night together after leaving at the same time.
But things don't go in their favor as the season continues. Tyler invites Hall to join him on a trip to Nashville, but she doesn't go after getting mixed signals about if he actually wants there. And she's cautious about getting involved with him further after his divorce.
"I had a lot of open wounds after my divorce," Hall says in episode four. "And so trying to rush into another relationship is not — It might be ideal for the wounded but it's not… the person you're attaching to is then a victim. And I don't wanna be a victim in Tyler's story."
Furthermore, Hall reveals that instead of going to Nashville with Tyler, she went to Vegas with another guy. The only problem? He's moving to London for work. But as the season goes on, it becomes clear that Hall is willing to make room for him in her life, traveling to London to visit and planning a trip to Italy with him. Still, she has some hesitations, telling Tyler that she feels like they have "unfinished business" and that she's "following my head, not my heart" with the other guy.
Tyler makes one final rom-com-esque play in the season's final episode, telling Hall that he's afraid of her going to Italy with her mystery man.
"I think my biggest fear in all of this is to lose you and not tell you how I feel," he says. "I don't want you to go to Italy because I don't wanna lose you."
So, are Tyler and Hall dating now?
Nope. But that was mostly a given at this point — Hall previously said at the November 2023 "Selling Sunset" season seven reunion that she found out he had blocked her on Instagram, per People.
Hall does go to Italy — but it doesn't seem like she's seeing her mystery man either. Hall told Tudum that she was taking a break from dating, citing the difficulties of dating as a post-divorce single mom reality star in her 30s.
However, she still wants to find love again, she told Tudum, and would consider having more children in the future. But it probably won't be with Tyler, who has since left The Oppenheim Group.
"Tyler and I don't speak anymore. So that's where we stand," she told Tudum.
Hall also told E! News that there were some post-filming "revelations" that helped her understand why things went the way they did in season three, though she didn't say what those revelations were.
"I'm just a woman who wants a man to take the lead and unfortunately it wasn't there," she told E! News. "So, Tyler and I now — I think I'm still blocked on Instagram."
"Selling the OC" season three is now streaming on Netflix.