Netflix serves up Apple Cider Vinegar

TRAILER: Inspired by a true story that was based on a lie, Kaitlyn Dever (Unbelievable) leads the cast of Apple Cider Vinegar, an upcoming Netflix series that follows two women who set out to cure their life-threatening illnesses through health and wellness.

Set at the birth of Instagram, Dever as Belle Gibson, an Australian wellness influencer who claims to have cured her terminal brain cancer through health and wellness. If it sounds too good to be true, that’s because it is.

As it turns out, Belle has never actually been diagnosed with — or cured of — the malignant brain tumor that she shares with the world through social media, the mobile app she develops, and its companion cookbook.

The series then follows the rise and fall of a wellness empire; the culture that built it up and the people who tore it down.

The cast also includes Alycia Debnam-Carey (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart), Aisha Dee (The Bold Type), Tilda Cobham-Hervey (The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart), Ashley Zukerman (Succession), Mark Coles Smith (Mystery Road: Origin), Susie Porter (Irreverent), Matt Nable (Transfusion), Phoenix Raei (The Night Agent), Chai Hansen (Night Sky), Richard Davies (Offspring), Kieran Darcy-Smith (Mr Inbetween), Catherine McClements (Total Control) and Essie Davis (The Babadook).

Premiering on February 6, the show comes from creator Samantha Strauss (The End), who wrote the scripts with Anya Beyersdorf (The Twelve, Fake) and Angela Betzien (Total Control), inspired by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano’s book The Woman Who Fooled The World. The director is Jeffrey Walker (The Clearing).

The series is executive produced by See-Saw Films’ Liz Watts, Helen Gregory, Emile Sherman and Iain Canning; Picking Scabs’ Strauss and Louise Gough; and Dever. The producer is Yvonne Collins.

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