Director: Anya Beyersdorf
An ordinary dating-app match spirals into something far stranger over the course of 'Fake', a 2024 Australian drama series built around one relationship's slow unraveling.
What is Fake about?
Birdie Bell, a writer navigating the modern dating scene, connects online with Joe Burt, a rancher who seems to check every box she's looking for. She commits to him quickly, drawn in by how well he seems to understand her — until small inconsistencies in his stories start to add up. As Birdie digs further, the gap between the man she thought she knew and the person actually behind the profile keeps widening, and she has to decide how far she's willing to go to find out the truth.
Cast & crew
Asher Keddie leads the series as Birdie, with David Wenham playing Joe, the man whose carefully built persona starts to crack under scrutiny.
Context & significance
Directed by Anya Beyersdorf, Fake runs roughly 40 minutes per episode and holds a 7.0 rating on IMDb. The Australian drama leans into the anxieties of online dating, using Birdie's relationship as a way to examine how easily trust can be manufactured — and how hard it is to walk away once it's been given. Rather than treating the deception as a single twist, the series stretches it across the season, tracking how Birdie's friends, family, and career absorb the fallout as she starts questioning her own judgment. That slower pacing gives the show room to sit with the discomfort of realizing a partner is not who they claimed to be, instead of rushing toward a tidy resolution.
Where & how to watch
Fake is available on K-Time with both Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles, giving viewers a choice in how they follow the series. This page is free to read without an account; streaming the episodes requires a K-Time login, inside an interface built with Farsi-speaking audiences in mind.