Spoilers for Netflix’s Insatiable lie ahead.
There’s a lot I really don’t like about Insatiable. But when it comes to the will-they-won’t-they throuple of three major characters… I am surprisingly on board.
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Netflix’s ‘Insatiable’ takes 12 mind-numbing hours to add insult to injury
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Turns out Insatiable wasn’t better than advertised.
If you’re not caught up on the controversy, in July, Netflix dropped a trailer for the new campy, teen series—and some viewers (understandably) lost it. Labeling the preview an unequivocal display of fat-shaming, many called for its cancellation prior to the series’ premiere.
On August 10th, Netflix made Insatiable available as scheduled — and the mystery of whether its promotion was a marketing faux pas or a sneak peek into a costly mistake was ripe for the solving. Read more…
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Netflix’s Insatiable has been under fire since the first trailer presented the dark comedy show as extremely insensitive and fat-shaming.
As The Daily Beast points out in its review headline, that’s the least of Insatiable‘s abundant and horrifying problems. There was instant, vocal backlash asking for Netflix to cancel the show before its premiere, but said premiere is now upon us.
The pilot episode alone is a doozy – beyond fat-shaming, there’s slut-shaming, molestation jokes, and at least two near-deaths as plot devices.
We hated it, and we made a list of the worst things in it. We watched so you don’t have to. Read more…
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The trailer for Netflix’s Insatiable has already made quite an impact on social media, though perhaps not for the reasons the creators may have anticipated.
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