INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Insatiable,& the Netflix comedy about an overweight high school girl who suddenly becomes slim and beautiful thanks to having her jaw wired
shut for a summer, has beendrawing controversy ever since its first trailer went online.
The reviews for the show were almost uniformly
negative, yet they didn''t quite prepare me for the terribleness of the initial episodes, which alternate between feeble attempts to mine
humor from hot-button issues like sexual assault and suicide, and even feebler attempts to treat those issues seriously.
To help me figure
out just what makes this show so bad, I was joined by Original Content‘s original co-host, Darrell Etherington
Our ultimate question: Is this the worst thing we&ve watched for the podcast (Yes.)
We also discuss the fact that Henry Cavill has been cast
as the lead in Netflix adaptation of the &Witcher& video game franchise.
This episode was actually recorded more than a week ago, but I
didn''t get time to edit it until after Disrupt SF
So much has happened since then — like &The Witcher&‘s showrunner leaving Twitter and Cavill apparently departing the role of Superman
(Plus, somehow, &Insatiable& has been renewed for a second season.)Still, the initial news gave us an opportunity to weigh the relative
merits of the &Mission Impossible& movies, and to discuss my favorite subject, Superman invisible mustache in &Justice League&.
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