Dietland
So I'm not really sure about this one. It's AMC.
I had read something about it several weeks ago, and I expected more. It's, apparently, the story of this overweight woman working as a writer for a fashion magazine. She's very dissatisfied with her appearance and doing whatever she can to lose weight. She seems more resigned than depressed.
It looks like the main topics are self deprecation, self empowering, fat shaming, the-beauty-inside and I guess feminism. There is a second plot regarding a mystery that will surely be developed in later episodes.
All in all, for a 2-episode premiere, I thought it was pretty slow and felt like not a lot happened. The characters were a bit flat and stereotypical for my taste and dialogues weren't brilliant. I think there were probably some good insights here and there, but nothing really engaging for me. There wasn't a lot of tension and I can't really point any algid moment. There was just a funny line I think, and the dramatic scenes were very soft key.
I might give the next episode a chance, but probably only when I have nothing else to watch.
I'd say 5/10.
I hadn’t heard of this show until I read your post. I’m grateful you took the time to write this... I don’t think most people would’ve been motivated to compose a Tildes review for a show they only thought was “meh.” Thanks for going the extra mile to help make this a healthy place for discussion.
Hey, thanks for your words. I thought it might be nice if we would just present some new shows we start watching here, since often I miss many premieres of stuff that's interesting. And even if it was meh for me, maybe someone else is interested and maybe they can even give the poster a different perspective. I wish I could've said something more about this one, though.
I thought after spending the time to watch a pilot, it's not that difficult to make a short review and crowdsource the discovery effort. Hopefully shows from other countries can be discovered as well.
This is the second one I write, the first one was about Succession.
Sounds similar to the plot of Ugly Betty.
Definitely. I haven't watched the American version and just a few fragments of the Colombian original, and I think it's a bit different, especially because it's focusing on overweight and there's that undergroundish subplot. But there are obvious similarities,i think.