The second season of the platform’s critically reviled
comedy about an overweight girl who becomes a beauty queen is here to make amends
The first season of
Netflix comedy Insatiable was marred in controversy from the very first
trailer, which featured the slender actor Debby Ryan donning a fat suit in order to play Patty Bladell, an overweight and relentlessly bullied teen who seeks revenge after she transforms into a slim beauty pageant contestant. The show was clearly intended to be a satire of pageant culture à la Drop Dead Gorgeous, but the candy-colored tones never quite squared with the show’s sense of humor, which could be recklessly cruel without ever being particularly funny. The show was panned by TV critics (it received only a 13% fresh on Rotten Tomatoes), but the constant stream of press also led to a large viewership and so, somewhat amazingly, it’s returned for a second season.
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