Celeste Barber is mesmerising in this Netflix comedy about a party monster transforming herself into a wellness monster 'Sometimes I feel like everybody is a sexy baby,' sang Taylor Swift in last year's 'Anti-Hero', 'and I'm a monster on the hill.' These lines kept coming back to me while watching Wellmania , a Netflix comedy-drama created by Brigid Delaney and Benjamin Law and loosely based on Delaney's book of the same name. The 'sexy babies' in Wellmania are the upwardly mobile residents of Sydney's eastern suburbs, who dutifully go on daily beachside runs dressed in expensive monochromatic gear, order green juices from weather-always-permitting outdoor kiosks, and spend a hefty amount of time working to achieve the most enviable body, marriage, children and real-estate portfolio.

https://www.themonthly.com.au/issue/2023/may/abigail-ulman/wellmania

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