A few weeks before the release of Netflix's "Apple Cider Vinegar," an influencer friend of a friend shared a video. She's barely made up or filtered, talking to camera about how social media was starting to feel "unnatural" to her;

The Kaitlyn Dever-led series is an exhausting exercise in hatred and hypocrisy that relentlessly flattens its real-life subject and shills her lies with panache.

BOTTOM LINE: Smart and compelling, with great performances, "Apple Cider Vinegar" also has a lot to say about human nature.