TV AJÁNLÓ: Wellmania (Netflix)

Wellmania follows human tornado and food critic Liv Healy (Celeste Barber), who has just been offered her dream job in New York: to be a judge on TV’s biggest new food show Banquet Royale.

But after returning home to Australia to surprise her best friend Amy for a milestone birthday, Liv is diagnosed with catastrophic health and her US green card is cancelled. Looking for the quickest route back to New York, she throws herself body-first into a radical wellness journey, hell-bent on getting well to get home.

Swapping degustations for discipline, the city that never sleeps for laidback Sydney suburbia, and a rock and roll lifestyle for a regimented health routine, Liv attempts to achieve physical health – and a ticket back to New York – in the fastest possible way. She undertakes an intense detox of herbal laxatives and enemas. She straps on a FitBit and takes up a fitness regimen.

She takes strange detours into sex therapy, microdosing LSD and a chance encounter with a death doula. Along the way, Liv comes to realise wellness is about more than just the physical. She is forced to rebuild and redefine her relationships with her mother Lorraine (Genevieve Mooy), her brother Gaz (Lachlan Buchanan) and closest friend Amy (JJ Fong) – all of whom have their own struggles that Liv affects, complicates … and occasionally causes.

Across eight episodes, Liv discovers true wellness isn’t just about BMI or cholesterol, crystals or essential oils, but requires the far-more difficult task of connecting with people who love you, and confronting the trauma of your past. Wellmania is a story about the meaning of home, what it takes to heal from grief, and discovering what really constitutes a life lived well.