The 8-episode comedy/drama Wellmania, 2023, stars Celeste Barber as Liv Healy, a New York Times food writer who returns to her home town of Sydney to cover a food event and discovers that her dangerously high cholesterol level prevents her from getting a green card to return to the U.S. She must lower it to continue her career.
The premise and episode descriptions on Netflix give you no hint of gay representation, but according to Wikipedia, Liv's brother Gaz (Lachlan Buchanan) is gay, and appears with his fiancé Dalbert Tan (Remy Hii) in every episode.
Left: Remy Hii.
Episode 1.2 says that Liv iefuses to attend the wedding. I checked the scene: it has nothing to do with homophobia. She just doesn't like the family thinking of her as a joke. I reviewed Episode 1.5, "Hall of Mirrors."
Scene 1: Mom is retiring, so Liv gives a depressed speech: "You can have your colon cleansed and do your 450,000 steps a day, but it doesn't matter, because we're all going to die." Gaz and Dalbert tell her to shut up and stop ruining Mom's day.
So she takes a bite out of the cake before it's cut and asks for more booze.
Mom's dining companion has heard that Gaz is getting married, and asks who the "lucky lady" is. Mom doesn't divulge much, does she. "Me, because we're homosexuals." "So are my favorite patients! They have such fascinating sexual injuries." Jerk
Uh-oh, Gaz gets a text from someone named Sebastian, lies that he has a lot of clients to see, leaves. Cheating on the boyfriend?
Liz runs into the bathroom to throw up. Mom wants to know why she keeps doing such unhealthy things. "You can't have two perfect children." Gaz is perfect? Just wait...
Editor Valerie call. Everyone loves her Camille article. "It was gutsy! It was real!" She wants Liv in New York to "be the third judge in the show," but Liv is trapped in Australia.
From here there are three plotlines. I'll review each separately.
Liv's Story: Liv accosts Chad, Guy Edmonds, the American counsul, while he's in the men's room. She needs a new doctor to bribe to say her cholesterol level is ok, so she can get her green card back and return to New York -- she sort of attacked the old one, Dr. Singh. Couldn't you go on a tourist visa if you just want to be the judge on the show?
"It's a once in a lifetime opportunity. Haven't you ever had a dream?" While she is begging, she accidentally scatters paper towels, and gets on her knees to pick them up just as another man comes in. "It's not what it looks like." "No, it's worse," Chad retorts.
Chad's penis after the break. Caution: Explicit.