This will be the true crime doc you want to see on Netflix

My good, Netflix, what are you treating us to this year. Just when we recovered from The Tinder Swindler, you come up with another blockbuster. And this one might be even weirder. Is that possible? I thought not, until I saw the trailer for Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. The name alone: awesome. This can only be a feast. And the story is honestly even weirder than the con artist named Simon Leviev.

Bad Vegan tells the story of a gigantic tale in New York City, with Sarma Melngailis in the lead role. She was seen as a major Vegan Queen, with her own restaurant Pure Food & Wine, a popular hotspot among celebrities, where only vegan food was served. Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson were regular guests, not the least of names. Sarma was doing quite well until she met Anthony Strangis on Twitter in 2011.

And here is where Bad Vegan goes a bit in the direction of The Tinder Swindler; Sarma transfers huge amounts of money to this Anthony Strangis. For what? He promised her to expand her restaurants into a real empire and to — seriously — make her beloved pitbull immortal.

Spoiler alert: neither promise came true. And worse was that they had both been busy with different investors and eventually got so deep in debt that they could no longer pay their staff. The couple had since married and had (estimated) blown through about two million. But it gets worse, because by then Sarma herself had also started borrowing money from her husband. He spent over a million of that in casinos (money well spent, then).

The staff had had enough and quit, and the investors wanted to see their money. The married couple therefore decided to go on the run. Eventually, the couple was found in a hotel room in Tennessee, after they — and this might be the biggest shock — ordered a non-vegan pizza and chicken wings from Domino's Pizza. The betrayal!

But is she the victim, just like her investors? Did her husband play her? Or does she secretly know much more than she lets on and is she really not that innocent? Just check the trailer, because I think this documentary is going to be full of plot twists. This is going to be a hit.

March 16, Bad Vegan: Fame. Fraud. Fugitives. will be on Netflix.