This Netflix series from Instagram star Celeste Barber is absorbing, amusing, no-nonsense TV. It’s the perfect way to unwind
here have been few better satirists of the Instagram age than Celeste Barber. In 2015, the Australian actor began recreating posts by the platform’s stars, mimicking the showy-offy poses of Kendall Jenner, Bella Hadid and Emily Ratajkowski et al but replacing their sultry pouts, glossy manes and pert figures with her own unkempt hair and relatably droopy curves.
The first episode barely touches on the wellness theme. We are catapulted into the world of Liv, a New York-based food writer whose life is a whirlwind of glam parties, intoxicants and one-night stands. Liv is, in other words, an outwardly glitzy example of– the self-sabotaging, self-absorbed, thrill-seeking and secretly troubled protagonist of a tranche of recent comedy-dramas, from Fleabag to Feel Good, I Hate Suzie to I May Destroy You.
If the show had hurtled wholeheartedly down this route, it would probably have been a lot funnier. Barber is a great physical comedian and the combination of crude Aussie straight-talking and the glossy aesthetics of middle-class Sydney makes for a pleasing juxtaposition. Then there’s the slapstick: we get Liv tying herself in knots at the gym in an image reminiscent of one of Barber’s Insta parodies, and later smearing blood on the walls after a cupping treatment gone wrong .
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