10 TV Shows That Pissed You Off Straight Away
1. All The Fat-Shaming - Insatiable
Few shows have been so thoroughly eviscerated by critics and audiences before they even began airing as Netflix's Insatiable, which focuses on overweight teenager Patty Bladell (Debby Ryan) getting thin and seeking revenge on those who previously bullied her for her weight.
Trailers for the series immediately invoked accusations of fat-shaming, with critics drawing particular attention to the decision to have a slim actress don a fat suit to portray Patty as overweight.
Those involved with the show assured audiences Insatiable would be a nuanced look at the damage caused by fat-shaming, though when the season dropped critics weren't much convinced.
Ultimately Insatiable is less concerned with Patty's weight loss than its overabundance of soap opera-inspired storylines and edgy-for-edgy's-sake humour, suffocating any attempt to have a genuine conversation about western society's obsession with thinness in the process.
The show's first season was near-universally panned by critics, and when the second season was quietly dumped on Netflix in late 2019, few mainstream outlets even bothered to review it. Seriously, there isn't a single review on Rotten Tomatoes.
A few months later Insatiable was cancelled, surprising nobody.