(See also: The show’s not-even-slightly-veiled references to the harassment accusations against fashion photographer Terry Richardson.) It’s all… a lot, but it also takes away from Plum’s core story. Meanwhile, a shadowy renegade group named Jennifer is reportedly bumping off men who managed to skirt punishment for abusing women. This guy just dropped the year’s best Warped-Tour-core album. Looks like you're in the UK. Sherlock Holmes has a teenage sister, and she’s hilarious. Instead, it's an incisive, biting satire that challenges your preconceptions about feminism and body type, one that might make you confront your own biases and body image. With so many important causes to explore, it should come as no surprise a handful individual moments hit home, especially when Nash is allowed to say her piece in character, in the moment, rather than reiterate Plum’s position via all-knowing but impersonal narration. Nash lives every beat of Plum’s life. There’s a woman working in the basement of Kitty’s skyscraper who’s working against the queen above her. Holmes, a.k.a the torture doctor. There’s the daughter of phony dietitians who sponsors Plum’s ambitious writing projects as a form of “reparation” for what her mother and father did to her. Dietland (Monday, 9 ET/PT, ★★★½ out of four) isn't here to make you comfortable. Plum's routine is upended when she meets Julia (Tamara Tunie), who runs the magazine's beauty closet and, secretly, a resistance movement against the fashion industry, the media and general misogyny. The straight-to-series 10-episode first season premiered on AMC[2] with back to back episodes on June 4, 2018. Dietland revolves around Plum Kettle (Joy Nash), a soft-spoken, introverted and self-identified fat woman (as her narration explains, she's allowed to use that word) who feels trapped both by her body and her life and is saving money for gastric bypass surgery.
Kitty is powerful, but her power is obviously unearned. The show's murder-mystery-conspiracy plot isn't quite as compelling as Plum's personal story, but at least in these early episodes, far more attention is paid to her internal struggle, and it appears that the vigilante plot will expand in future episodes.
Noxon, who developed the series for television and directed the pilot, is trying to create an overall experience here, trying everything she can think of to put the audience in Plum’s shoes. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. The smartly written dark dramedy, created by Marti Noxon (UnREAL), is a delectable expression of feminist anger, a parable that eviscerates the patriarchy. All Rights Reserved. Not that the new series, based on Sarai Walker's novel, isn't good. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Did you know The Strategist is too? “Dietland’s” plot is about showing her she’s wrong and saving her from an oppressive culture built to make women feel bad about themselves.
There are strange, animated dream sequences and equally odd visions Plum experiences while awake — one of which involves a man dressed in a tiger suit who’s there to have sex with her. In supporting roles, Robin Weigert (as Verena, the anti-fad-diet proponent who counsels Plum), and Tamara Tunie (as Julia, the boss of the Daisy Chain beauty closet) effectively project the air of sensible, supportive women, so much so that you’re not sure that you can actually trust them. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. Dietland is the debut novel by Sarai Walker that was first published on May 26, 2015 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. [3] On September 20, 2018, AMC announced that the series had been cancelled.
Through three episodes, though, “Dietland” feels out of control, predominantly because it doesn’t trust its main character to hold the audience’s interest on her own. Beauty is not only pain, Dietland reminds us.
Plum’s personal struggles and her relationship with Kitty, who could not be more condescending to the woman who makes her sound intelligent in print, provides more than enough fodder for a TV show. Log in or link your magazine subscription. The speeches, the grandstanding, the quips — they totally work in the context of this Netflix courtroom drama. The information about Dietland shown above was first featured in "The BookBrowse Review" - BookBrowse's online-magazine that keeps our members abreast of notable and high-profile books publishing in the coming weeks. You\'ll receive the next newsletter in your inbox.
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