A counterfeit handbag ring built on friendship and desperation, Bad Influencer traces how far a single mother in over her head and the social-media personality she teams up with will go once their scheme starts drawing attention from people far more dangerous than customs agents.
What is Bad Influencer about?
The 2025 crime drama centers on a struggling single mom who finds an unlikely business partner in an online influencer, and together they build a quiet operation selling counterfeit designer bags to a growing customer base. What starts as a way to cover bills escalates fast, pulling both women into contact with organized criminals who see the operation as territory worth protecting, and with police investigators who see it as a case worth building. Set across Spain and the United States, the series follows the two as they try to keep their partnership, their families, and their freedom intact while the walls close in from multiple directions. The show is less interested in the mechanics of the counterfeit trade than in the choices its characters make under mounting pressure, and in what happens when an act born of necessity turns into something neither woman can easily walk away from.
About the cast
The ensemble is led by Alberto Olmo and Eléa Rochera, with Enrique Arce, Mirela Balić, Farid Bechara, Sara Ariño, Fer Fraga, and Mar Isern rounding out a cast spread across the criminal and law-enforcement sides of the story. The performances carry a series built on shifting alliances, where trust between characters is never guaranteed to last an episode.
Context & significance
Directed by Chloé Wallace, Bad Influencer is a Spanish-American co-production that taps into a wider run of crime dramas examining how ordinary economic pressure pushes people toward criminal enterprise. Its focus on counterfeit goods and influencer culture gives it a contemporary edge distinct from more traditional crime narratives, grounding the danger in something recognizably modern: a marketplace built on social media reach rather than back-alley deals alone. The series holds a solid critical reception among genre viewers drawn to morally complicated leads.
Watching Bad Influencer on Ktime
Bad Influencer is available on K-Time with a free account login, no cost to browse the page itself. The series streams with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving Farsi-speaking audiences full access to the dialogue-heavy tension that drives the story, part of K-Time's continued focus on serving the Iranian diaspora with a Farsi-first viewing experience.