![]() ![]() She gets away with it because she’s funny. Throughout it all Liv is self-centred, self-destructive and just plain self-ish. She constantly falls off the wagon, clambers back on it again, enrols in her brother’s gym, sweats a lot and keeps passing out. But then she pops back home to Sydney for her best friend Amy's (JJ Fong) birthday party – and promptly folds.Ĭue eight half-hour episodes of Liv desperately trying to get back to New York for her big TV break but being constantly thwarted in ever more ludicrous ways: her bag is stolen, along with her green card, then she can’t pass a medical to get another one, so she enrols in a drastic detox involving rectal hosing and powdered shakes and so on. When she gets offered a role as a judge on a TV cookery show, it’s everything she wants and she can’t wait to get started. She’s overdone it, having made a name for herself as someone who’s last to leave every party. She’s been living the life of a 20-something but she’s nearly 40. ![]() ![]() Liv Healy (Celeste Barber) begins the series – which is adapted from the memoir by journalist Brigid Delaney – in the back of an Australian ambulance, before we cut back to the splendours of her life in New York. But a series as pioneering as Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s looms large in the memory, and Wellmania exists in its shadow. Prior to Fleabag (or possibly Weeds or Sex and the City, depending on your reference library) this was challenging, uncharted territory. The story of an Aussie journalist making waves in New York as a food critic, it goes all in on making its heroine unlikeable. If there hadn’t have been a Fleabag or an I Hate Suzie then Wellmania (Netflix), an Australian series with a love/hate female lead, would have been rendered an instant classic. ![]()
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