If you've ever forced yourself to drink cold-pressed juice instead of eating a hot meal, taken supplements the size of a bottle cap, or gotten dizzy from a detox, then Wellmania is for you.
The eight-part series stars Instagram sensation Celeste Barber in one of her first lead television roles and rips through the wellness industry while providing a delicate balance of comedy and melodrama.
Here's everything you need to know.
Who is Celeste Barber?
If you've been on Instagram in the last five years, you should know who Celeste Barber is, but just in case...
Barber came up as an actor, featuring in shows like All Saints before she fell into stand-up comedy.
But Barber's real star turn began in 2015 when she started recreating Hollywood star's glamorous photo shoots but in a hilariously realistic way.
Barber has taken on everyone from Rihanna to Kylie Jenner, most recently recreating Hunter Schafer's revealing Oscars afterparty outfit.
Barber's Instagram following has exploded to 9.2 million people, and she just returned from sell-out stand-up shows in the UK and the US.
She's also beloved for using her sizeable social media following for good, raising over $51 million during the Black Summer bushfires.
How can I watch Wellmania?
The full eight-episode season of Wellmania will premiere today: Wednesday, March 29 on Netflix.
What is Wellmania about?
Barber is Olivia Healy, Liv to her friends, a high-flying (emphasis on high) lifestyle journalist living her best life in New York City.
A surprise birthday visit to her best friend in Australia goes from a 24-hour pop-in to an immigration nightmare after Liv's green card is stolen on the beach.
After passing out at the US consulate trying to regain her green status, Liv is declared too unhealthy to work in the US.
Stuck in Australia with her mum and brother, Liv sets out on a wellness journey to pull her vitals in line in time to get back to the US and her big chance to be cast as a judge on a reality TV show.
Despite Liv calling New York home, the series was filmed in Sydney, so there are some questionable American accents in the abroad sections of the show.
Who else stars in Wellmania?
New Zealand actress JJ Fong provides some grounded neurosis as Liv's long-time best friend Amy.
Stalwart Aussie stage actress Genevieve Mooy shines as Liv's at-a-loss mother, and Station 19 star Lachlan Buchanan rounds out Liv's family unit as her brother, Gaz.
A swathe of guest stars wafts in and out of episodes; one of the best is Lord Of The Rings star Miranda Otto as Camille Lavigne, a French, sex-positive author that literally strips naked on stage to prove a point.
What is Wellmania based on?
The Netflix series is based on Wellmania: Misadventures in the Search for Wellness by author and journalist Brigid Delaney and co-created with comedian and writer Benjamin Law – who you can catch for a spilt second in the background of the pilot episode.
Liv is an obvious surrogate for Delaney as they both go through the laborious process of trying "wellness" products and regimes to see if any actually work.
Liquid-only diets, detoxes, fasting, colonics – nothing is off the table for Liv, just as it was for Delaney in her book.
What can audiences expect from Wellmania?
Wellmania starts with a bang – literally. The series opens with Liv enjoying the final moments of a one-night stand before rushing the guy out the door without even remembering his name.
Very early on, Liv is established as a hard-partying, workaholic, borderline narcissist willing to say anything if it means she gets what she wants.
In any other hands, this character would get grating fast, but Barber infuses Liv with enough charm and underlying goodness that you'll end up rooting for her – even when she's in the midst of one of her frustrating hijinks.
The show is crude. Lots of f-bombs, liberal use of the c-word, lots of awkward sex scenes, there's LSD microdosing and even one stomach-churning scene where you see the contents of Liv's colonic as it snakes through clear tubing.
But dive deep enough into the series, and there's genuine depth and heart.
One particularly affecting episode in the back half of the season where a series of unfortunate events sees Liv on a road trip with a death doula (played by Orange Is The New Black's Yael Stone).
They make a quick stop at one of the doula's client's houses, where the family patriarch has just passed away.
Though initially awkward and pushy to get back on the road, Liv eventually joins the family in their grieving process, allowing her to relieve some of her own bottled pain from her father's death.
The episode slows the action and proves the series has more to give than witty one-liners.
Will there be a second season on Wellmania?
Netflix hasn't announced if the series will continue yet.
But considering season one ends on a cliffhanger, keep all your fingers crossed for a season two.
