Anna Delvey, meet Belle Gibson. After the smash success of Netflix’s “Inventing Anna” it’s no surprise that more scammer stories are coming. And the latest, “Apple Cider Vinegar”, is a dud.
“Set at the birth of Instagram, Apple Cider Vinegar follows two young women who aim to cure their life-threatening illnesses through health and wellness, impacting their global online communities along the way. All of this would be incredibly inspiring if it were all true,” says a Netflix press release. “This is a true story based on a lie, about the rise and fall of a prosperous empire; the culture that built it and the people that tore it down.”
Participating Kaitlyn Dever as Australian influencer Gibson, the show was created and written by Samantha Strauss, inspired by “The Woman Who Fooled the World” by Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano. The Netflix series, directed by Jeffrey Walker, will also star Alycia Debnam-Carey, Aisha Dee, Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Ashley Zukerman, Mark Coles Smith, Susie Porter, Matt Nable, Phoenix Raei, Chai Hansen, Rick Davies, Kieran Darcy -Smith, Catherine McClements and Essie Davis.
“She’s probably killing people with her lies,” one person notes in the paper trailer for the show, which will also address the under-regulated health harm and alternative medicine that people, mainly women, use when they are not listened to by their doctors.
“You have to be a real sociopath to do that,” Dever says in the trailer about faking a cancer diagnosis for attention. “And I could take 50 personality quizzes right now and I’d be an empath every time.”
Dever previously starred in the Netflix limited series “Incredible” and Hulu’s “Dopesick” as well as the films “Booksmart” and “Ticket to Paradise”. She broke out in the indie ‘Short Term 12’ and will soon be seen as the much awaited character of Abby in upcoming “The Last of Us” season 2.
“Apple Cider Vinegar” will debut on Netflix on February 6. Watch the trailer for the limited series below.
