'Insatiable' Is Lazy And Dull, But At Least It's Insulting
If only the worst thing about Netflix's Insatiable were its lazy portrayals of fat people, or its tone-deaf deployment of sexual assault and abuse as comedy, or its embrace of racist tropes, or its portrayals of people with southern accents as dumb hicks, or its white-hot conviction that same-sex attraction is either inherently hilarious or a teaching moment.
Oh, if only.
Don't misunderstand: It deserves every word of the early petitioning after its trailer was released about how its fat-suit yuks come cheaply and at the expense of the already maligned. But the show on the whole — and I know, because I fruitlessly watched all 12 episodes like I was running deeper and deeper into a burning building in search of a swimming pool that would never materialize — is more to be puzzled over than despised. This is the purest evidence yet that Netflix has plenty of seasons of Friends and a lot of cute avatar options, but no quality control.
No, my friends, Netflix is a big old stuff bucket. And when the stuff poured from the bucket is good, it's not because it needed to be.
begins with a fat 17-year-old named Patty (Patty was not a popular name in 2001, but it rhymes
