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Insatiable




I can actually do a quicker review on this one show: sorry, I didn’t like it. But let’s slow down and try to think about it for a moment.

The show itself has a simple premise. A bullied fat teenage girl gets beautiful and wants revenge, so she starts to participate in beauty pageants with the help of her lawyer who is also a coach from this sort of event and a very… let’s say confused, man.

Sorry, but this is just not for me, yet I gave it a try anyway. It’s a Netflix show and they’re usually pretty good, so… Am actually a little sad that it turned out to be disappointing. 

It’s supposed to be a comedy, but it’s empty. The characters are supposed to be deeper than they really are, they have their own background story with some possibly interesting facts, but they’re just… flat.

Generally, the comedy genre should make you laugh, right? Insatiable doesn’t. It’s actually quite boring at some points turning into absolute nonsense during others. Full of prejudices and stereotypes, you just can’t take any of its characters seriously.

Most of the characters are just manipulative, to a point that makes no sense and you probably can’t empathize easily with Patty, because the character is so empty that you can’t really see the suffering soul trying to get payback, you just see a lunatic or psycho girl acting illogically.

The show had, in my opinion, a good thing going for it, which was the general message: Patty got thin but her problems didn’t go away. It’s amazing when you’re beautiful and clearly, Patty realizes that she could have some advantages from it, but it wasn’t enough. The inside doesn’t change with the weight loss. Unfortunately, the plot focused a little too much on stupid jokes and ridiculous scenes, making this subtle strong point about the show, fade away as it went on and eventually disappear. 

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