Female rage reaches a boiling point on TV

AMC’S NEW SERIES DIETLAND BEGINS WITH A montage of self-harm: One woman sticks her finger down her throat. Another braces for a laser trained on her cheek. A third carefully slices open her breast with a razor. In a voice-over, they read their emails to a high-powered editor of a fictional women’s magazine pleading for advice: “Dear Kitty, I’m ready to kill myself—or maybe somebody else.”