Surviving Summer is an Australian teen drama television series that premiered on 3 June 2022 on Netflix.
[1][2] 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.
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.
[3][4] 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 in to old family friends.