‘Dietland’ is a trippy revenge fantasy designed to make you feel weird

Describing AMC’s Dietland is hard. 

On its face, it’s the story of an overweight woman who is trying to lose enough pounds to qualify for lap band surgery. After 20 minutes of watching, it’s a darkly comedic satire of the culture that asks women to adhere to conventional beauty standards at the risk of damaging themselves. 

After three episodes… it’s something entirely different. 

Dietland is based on a book by Sarai Walker that was praised for its feminist ideals and wolf-in-sheep’s-clothing premise. The show takes these ideals and runs with them, using its exaggerated characters to shine an increasingly harsh light on rape culture and the millions of heaping slights that women are subjected to in a world that views them as objects first and people second.  Read more…

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