Netflix’s Byron Baes Is Australia’s Model of The Hills

A love triangle that includes former Bachelor and Love Island contestants, the most-followed man in Australia and a sound therapeutic session to salvage a celebration’s vibes: Welcome to Byron Bay.

Netflix’s newest docu-soap Byron Baes takes viewers down beneath to the linen-filled, religious oasis that’s the epi-center of Australian influencer tradition. The eight-episode first season is mainly a cross between The Hills and Promoting Sundown, introducing a tight-knit group of mates who’re all trying to make it as artists, whereas additionally courting, feuding and, after all, attending events every week to confront each other.

However one thing that units Byron Baes aside from its predecessors is that social media—specifically Instagram—is simply as a lot of a important character as anybody within the solid. Jade, the aforementioned most common male influencer within the nation, proclaims, “For 10 years now, I’ve had my cellphone each single second of my life doing all the things for my followers and my followers.” In the meantime, Elle, an environmentally conscience entrepreneur, commissions a sculpture of herself as a mermaid to save lots of the coral reef. Naturally. 

And Byron Baes government producer Emma Lamb is aware of precisely what informal viewers consider content material creators, who say issues like “I am not an influencer, I am an inspirer” with out a trace of irony.