This is a new show on FX. It’s about a bunch of people with eating disorders. When I was at the gym all the morning talk shows were in a flutter about how the show glamorized/trivialized the eating disorders on the show.
I watched the pilot last night. I can tell you they didn’t glamorize it. Watching a cop pull over a chinese food delivery guy to make him surrender his chinese food , so the cop could eat it, and then force him self to throw up - didn’t not make me want to go out and become bulimic.
I don’t really know what to say about the show. It was disturbing and in a number of ways - the characters were basically nails on a chalkboard for me. They were not just compulsive about food - but also all the details related - for example every time there is a tv on in the show it is always either talking about weight loss or showing a food commerical.
The characters spent a while trying tof igure out if a 5′9″ and 140 pound women could be considered anything other than fat.
I usually give a new show three episodes to determine if it is even worth being on the line up - probably even more important now that the new fall line up will be here soon.
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