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Down to Earth with Zac Efron review: Eco-doc series makes green sexy

Down Under, season two of Zac Efron's Down to Earth series, pulls off the trick he was after in the first season - making the pursuit of a greener, fairer world more desirable, finds Bethan Ackerley

By Bethan Ackerley

30 November 2022

DOWN TO EARTH WITH ZAC EFRON. Zac Efron in DOWN TO EARTH WITH ZAC EFRON. Cr. Courtesy of Netflix ?? 2022

Zac Efron, pictured in the new season of Down to Earth

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BETWEEN the covid-19 pandemic and the slow boil of climate change, times have been hard of late. If, like me, you have been shocked by the extent of recent human tragedies and ecological devastation, you may now be a more solemn, sensible person than you were five years ago.

The same, it seems, is true of Zac Efron. The actor first tried out environmentalism in season one of Down …

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