Apple Cider Vinegar
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Anonymous
| Anyone watching? It’s very good! |
Anonymous
| I loved it! I've gone down the health and wellness route and spent sooo much money on my "gut health". This show is more serious in that it deals with cancer, but it shows how profitable this indsutry is. |
Anonymous
| I'm three episodes in and I'm really enjoying it. Belle does have drive and talent, too bad she didn't keep her claims straight. |
Anonymous
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I just started it last night. It is pretty good!
That Kaitlyn Dever (Belle) has been around forever. She's so talented, just not super-famous. |
Anonymous
| It is fascinating, but go get articles about her because this is a fictionalized version of what happened. It’s wild. I want to know what’s going on with the boyfriend and the son now. |
Anonymous
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I am on episode three and also really hoped. It did take a while for me to get hooked, but I’m all in.
Subject matter is fascinating, but I also am a huge fan of Kaitlyn dever. She’s amazing in Unbelievable and also in the Hulu opioid series with Michael Keaton, Dopesick. |
Anonymous
It seems like much of it was accurate but they grossly exaggerated her online following and other minor details such as her relationship with the whistle blower. https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/netflix-apple-cider-vinegar-true-story-belle-gibson-b2697399.html# If you like this show you might want to watch Scamanda - US version of a sociopathic woman conning thousands of people (an mega church where she was active, friends and online blog followers) into believing she had cancer and manipulating them into donating many thousands to her medical bills. She was also very pretty and superficially likable. |
Anonymous
I liked the Scamanda podcast and can't wait to watch the show! I think they are clear that ACV is fictionalized. It's so stylized that I think it helps convey that it's not 100% fact-based. |
Anonymous
Yes that show is well done so far. Did you read the linked article? It Sounds like secondary characters were fictionalized but not so much the main character. The writers are journalists so they cautious with qualifying claims. “Adapted from the book The Woman Who Fooled The World – penned by the two journalists, Beau Donelly and Nick Toscano, who originally broke the story in 2015 – Apple Cider Vinegar is brought to life by an all-star cast (Unbelievable’s Kaitlyn Dever stars, alongside The Bold Type’s Aisha Dee and The Babadook’s Essie Davis). The show purports to be “inspired by a true story”, but with the caveat that “certain characters and events have been created or fictionalised”. So, just how much is based on fact? In the case of Belle Gibson herself, the vast majority of what we see on screen really did happen. Gibson was born in Tasmania on 8 October 1991 (though she even lied consistently about this, telling people that she was three years older), and her upbringing remains shrouded in mystery during various periods. She never knew her father; her mother, divorcee Natalie Dal-Bello, settled in Adelaide and remarried in 2012 after moving the family around the southeastern states of Australia for several years. She and her daughter are now estranged.” |
Anonymous
| What's the platform? |
Anonymous
I thought Scamanda was boring, I didn't even finish. Apple Cider Vinegar is so much better. |
Anonymous
Netflix |
Anonymous
| It's great. Australia is a small pond so fish size is indexed lol. But she was very high profile there. |
Anonymous
The small pond seems to produce some pretty big fish … How an Australian drama school helped shape talent flooding Hollywood They may have perfected American accents, but some of the biggest names in Hollywood are Australian. Many of the Australian actors, directors, writers and crew now working in Hollywood started learning their craft at NIDA, the National Institute of Dramatic Arts. John Clark, NIDA's director for 35 years, set a goal from the start: unlocking a distinct, Australian mode of acting that combined the theater of London with Hollywood gloss, but still allowed Australia's national characteristics to shine through. They are playing characters with such conviction and with such truth," Clark, now 92, said. "Without what Australians would call decoration." https://www.cbsnews.com/amp/news/australia-acting-talent-comes-to-hollywood-60-minutes/ A surprising number of Hollywood stars are Australian: how the country pumps out acting talent 60-minutes November 17, 2024 For the record: it's iron ore. But it's easy to make the case that Australia's leading export is… acting talent. How has an island of only 27 million people minted Nicole Kidman, Hugh Jackman, Cate Blanchett, Mel Gibson, Margot Robbie, Chris Hemsworth… we can keep going here… Sarah Snook, Russell Crowe, Heath Ledger, Naomi Watts… to say nothing of so many Oscar-winning directors, designers and crew? |
Anonymous
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I don’t get what it is that she did that was so wrong.
She never claimed to practice medicine, she was not a cult leader like the quacks in Mexico. She should have helped the one family she raised funds for. Milla denied her mother medical care and pressured her into joining the cult. Manufacturers all the time make claims that are not backed by science. She was just selling cook books and a wellness app |