Why Marti Noxon's 'Dietland' is the right show for this #MeToo moment
by Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times
Jun 04, 2018
3 minutes
Sometimes a television comedy's premise is promising, but the execution is flawed. Sometimes the cast is wonderful, but the direction is bad. Sometimes all the right elements are there, but the timing is wrong. It's rare when everything comes together as perfectly as it does for the dark comedy "Dietland."
The Skydance Entertainment/AMC Studios production, which was to premiere Monday, follows the passive, plus-sized writer Plum Kettle (Joy Nash), who works for the NYC-based fashion magazine Daisy Chain. Its offices are populated with a Size 2 staff, and even they look like husky trolls
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