Surviving Summer (TV series)

Surviving Summer is an Australian teen drama television series that premiered on 3 June 2022 on Netflix. The first season consists of 10 episodes. In November 2022, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on 15 September 2023.

Plot
Rebellious teenager Summer Torres is expelled from her high school in Brooklyn and sent to stay with the family of an old friend of her mother's in Australia, where she falls in with a clique of competitive surfers, and trouble causes in her footsteps.

Development
The series is created by Joanna Werner and Josh Mapleston. Josh Mapleston, Magda Wozniak, Keir Wilkins, Gemma Crofts and Kirsty Fisher serve as writers. Ben Chessell serves as a director, with Sian Davies and Charlotte George also directing episodes in the first season. Joanna Werner and Stuart Menzies serve as executive producers. The series was initially conceived as a Parent Trap concept with two female cousins, but a request from Netflix to have the series appeal to boys as well led to one of the characters to be changed to a boy, Ari and another change from it switching to Margot's sister taking Summer into old family friends. Filming occurred in a number of places in Victoria's Surf Coast: Aireys Inlet, Anglesea, Wye River, Lorne, Cumberland River and Bell's Beach. It consisted of two units working concurrently: one filming the drama and a separate unit shooting the surfing.

On 18 November 2022 the series was renewed for a second season.

Main

 * Sky Katz as Summer Torres, a rebellious teenager from Brooklyn, New York who is sent to live with family friends in the small town of Shorehaven on the Great Ocean Road, Victoria, Australia.
 * Kai Lewins as Ari Gibson, a young surfer who befriends Summer while recovering from a serious injury.
 * Lilliana Bowrey as Poppy Tetanui
 * Joao Gabriel Marinho as Marlon Sousa, a Brazilian emigree to Shorehaven
 * Savannah La Rain as Bodhi Mercer
 * Annabel Wolfe as Wren Radic, season 2
 * Josh Macqueen as Baxter Radic, season 2

Recurring

 * Chris Alosio as Manu Tetanui, Poppy's older brother and a surf coach
 * Dustin Clare and Adrienne Pickering as Ari's parents, Thommo and Abbie
 * Pacha Luque-Light as rival surfer Lily Tran
 * Mitchell Hardaker as Griff Temple
 * Charli Wookey as Sheridan Morehouse
 * Kate Beahan as Margot Torres, Summer's mother
 * Olympia Valance as Elo Radic, new coach season 2