Netflix Foray to Reality Series has provided some of the most watched dramas in recent years; Selling sunsets, love is blind, too hot to handle, circles, and twentysomethings: Austin all have a massive hit, suck us easily to love (and hate) and often a beautiful location. Byron Baes, now streaming on the platform, it’s likely to be addicted to your new reality. Docu soap followed a group of influencers and creative Australia, and it didn’t take a long time for the theater to start brewing.
BYRON BAES: STREAM IT OR SKIP IT?
Welcome to Byron Bay, a beautiful beachfront city in New South Wales, Australia. Sarah, a singer / influencer / pianist, left her house at the Gold Coast to move to Byron, where she hoped she could build a connection and advance her career. Jade Kevin Foster, an influencer (he has 1.2 million followers on Instagram, a fact he won’t let you forget) also came to Byron from the Gold Coast to make new friends and start fresh. “Being an influencer can definitely be lonely,” he said. So what else to do but head to a beautiful location – “Mecca for influencer”, because they told us – and look for new friends?
Sarah and Jade immediately joined the group of Byron people, we will get to know and love (or hate) as our players; There is Hannah, a Bohemian brand manager whose family has a company called Bisque, Elle, a drama that loves humanity, Jess, a fashion designer who gets a big break when Kylie Jenner wore her clothes, Jess’s sister, Nathan, Nathan Favro, which you might recognize From Bachelor in Paradise, Love Island Australia Star Elias Chigros, Spiritual Therapist Simba Ali, Cai Leplaw photographer, and Alex Reid, a high-minded manager who only helped Sarah. The group all came together at a big and glamorous Hannah party, where he hoped to complete tension with Jess. Even though Hoppin’s social event, there is a problem with brewing; Alex doesn’t believe Jade, and is determined to know what the agreement is, and there might be a love triangle in Sarah’s future. It’s just the start for Byron Baes this.
“There are many dramas, especially in our friendship group,” we were told, and Byron Baes gave this promise. It follows a fairly classical reality show format, taking us to rise because two outsiders try to navigate established social hierarchies in a new and beautiful place, and it’s the same as usual. Most of these people are poor (like, many), but they make a big television; The key to solid hatred spectacles is ridiculous cast, and Byron Baes understand this. This series is not wasting time preparing who our potential criminals are, and the romantic drama and friendship like what is in front. This is a solid pilot, and it’s easy to start choosing a favorite of the players before the show even really touched the land running.
The most fun – and funny – the thing about Byron Baes is how a little self-awareness is on the show. These people really don’t have damn instructions how they feel, instead of choosing to like any ideas about themselves they have followed in mind and present in the world through Instagram or other social media platforms. Each person thinks that they do something truly unique or offbeat, shake the system or admire people with their individuality, but they are all cut from the same cloth. With a handful of actors who already have the reality show stints and are used to being in the public eye, Byron Baes is a showcase for the type of delusion, goofballs melodramatics that makes television big. If you need me this week, I will sedate yourself and watch hate throughout the season. You might have to do the same.