Bad Vegan

In return for all the great reading and viewing recommendations I have received over the years from people on this blog, I want to recommend a Netflix docu-series Bad Vegan.

It’s about a very pretty, very lonely young woman called Sarma who opened a mega successful raw-food vegan restaurant in NYC. It was part of the new-agey start-uppy culture of people who think that they can transcend their humanity (and make a lot of money) by tinkering with their minds and bodies.

But in reality, Sarma only wanted a big, strong guy to marry her and protect her from problems. Life tends to be cruel to people who aren’t honest with themselves, and this story led to very weird places.

Netflix docu-series have gotten a bad rap because of the garbagey Making a Murderer but this is nothing like that, I promise. It’s funny but at the same time, seeing how far wealthy, fancy people are going with their belief in magic and all that is disturbing.