I feel dumber now.
The basic premise of this show is um, ahhhh, okay I admit I have no idea what the purpose of this show is. It follows a group of early 20s aspiring singers/models/fashion designers/influencers as they go about their everyday lives doing *important stuff* and making the rest of the world want to be them. Every week one of the glitterati holds an event to launch a product or their brand, show their art or heal the vibrational energy of the group where the group is the entire audience. Dress code strictly white linen and g-string bikinis. The group’s maturity level matches that of a Year 8 PE class. Conversation revolves around calling each other ‘fake’ through faces of lip filler, botox and boob jobs.
In the first episode, we meet the gang, specifically Sarah (aspiring musician from the dreaded glitzy/gaudy/trashy Gold Coast) and Jade (a male influencer from the glamorous/fabulous Gold Coast), are treated completely differently. As Sarah is treated as ‘fresh meat’ by the guys, the girls all talk about how ‘trashy’ she is and how the guys can do better. Meanwhile, Jade is welcomed by the whole gang because he’s not a threat to stealing any of the guys’ attention away from the girls.
Sarah is interested in Nathan but is worried he’s a ‘fuckboi’ (promiscuous man about town), at the end of the series she leaves town, shocked to discover that apparently he is said fuckboi and has had a thing with his flatmate. Sarah do you not ever I don’t know, Google anyone? Cue: Nathan’s history of being a ‘reality star’ – The Bachelorette and Bachelor in Paradise or Love Island or MAFS or Great Australian Bake Off, honestly I really don’t care.
Elle throws a fundraiser to “Save the Oceans”. WOW. I wondered how she was going to save 70% of the earth’s surface by inviting 10 friends to a party, but then she wheeled out a lifesize 3D sculpture of herself where the other ‘influencers’ could plant pieces of coral in plastic tubes to dump somewhere in the ocean and apparently regenerate the entire Great Barrier Reef. Like the planet hasn’t suffered enough.
The intelligence level of the show can be summed up with this sentence, “Alex has a bigger vocabulary than me, he must’ve gone to year 12”.
And that ladies and gentlemen is why I don’t want to go back to Byron Bay ever now.
You’re welcome.
