Insatiable - new Netflix series

The trailer makes me NOT want to watch.

Her best friend is a lesbian who lusts after her

[quote]The trailer makes me NOT want to watch.

The music is too much. That's what is bothering me.

Hmm...at first I was like "The fuck?" but then I was like "Okay. Maybe." Is there actual killing or dismemberment of these people or just face slapping?

I'll only watch it if there's killing or maiming...

I keep getting her confused with Selena Gomez.

There is something really unlikable and unappealing about the lead actress. She is more suited to playing a bitch or a mean girl (like in Life of the Party) than the lead.

[Quote] She is more suited to playing a bitch or a mean girl (like in Life of the Party) than the lead.

Yeah she's good at playing bitchy.

On episode 3, and, thus far, it's exceeded expectations. I like the lead but not enough to keep watching. I'm enjoying the rest of the cast much more than I expected.

Binge watched the whole season. It gets pretty wild. I thought it was worth watching.

R8 here, R9's right. Finished episode 8 and it went off the hook. Somehow it manages to be campy -and- sincere. And I'm still much more invested in the rest of the cast than the lead. She's kinda annoying.

Somehow it manages to be campy -and- sincere.

Apt assessment, R10.

I was let down. Oh well.

I felt let down, too, R12. I enjoyed it until near the end of the final episode. It's one of the few times I want a season 2 so that they can change some of the emotionally unsatisfying ways they ended things.

So many interesting characters left in limbo. Still annoyed at the female lead.

Loving it, up tp episode 5

Straight columnists are freaking out about it. saying it's awful and a trainwreck.

They don't get it.

Well, The New Yorker gets it.

Is this series a love letter to the morbidly obese like my beloved classic "Shallow Hal"?

I love Bob (Dallas Roberts) and all his nicknames for Bob Barnard.

bitch outs a gay guy.

DL: omg i luv it <3

It has like 17% for it's score at Rotten Tomato.

That said, I enjoyed it until the last episode. Every character had depth beyond his or her stereotype; otherwise, yeah, it would have been an offensive train wreck. The outing's more complex than described, R18, but to discuss it would require spoilers.

I suspect it will be a cult classic someday. Then again, I'm definitely not the pulse of the nation for entertainment.

People Are Calling Out 'Insatiable' Over This Problematic Bisexual Quote

Clip of gay actor and YouTuber Jason Caceres on Insatiable

Add m to the list of those who thoroughly enjoyed the banality until I hit the last 20 minutes of the last episode.

But you know what you’re getting when I can safely say that the best actor in the whole thing is ... Alyssa Milano.

Hi Jason at [R21]

Never heard of you.

Ian Marilyn Chambers in it?

Gorham was so hot and he's exactly what DL loves, straight acting gay.

It's not that bad at all, but it should have probably been made 20-30 years ago. People are so goddamn sensitive these days. It seems like every movie or TV show has something "problematic" in it. Isn't that the whole point of watching a movie, reading a book, seeing a TV show, and going to a play? Do people expect every character to be a role model? Can't we have stories told featuring awful people doing awful things? Maybe they learn from it and maybe they don't (the movie Young Adult comes to mind), but it's fiction.

Quick question: wtf happened to Beverly D’Angelo’s lower lip? It’s kind of paralyzed. Stroke? Bad fillers? Surgery? Disfiguring accident? Booze/drugs?

Yes R27! I didn't even recognize her at first.

For some reason the sixth episode was a huge slog for me. I think it's because it most closely follows the tropes of a CW teen soap opera and all of it's bad cliches, but I'm glad I waded through.

I actually liked the last episode and I think there is some kind of connection between the Roberts character and the girl. Although Roberts is the one doing the heavy lifting in their scenes together.

I also thought Alyssa Milano and and Gorham were great, especially playing off Roberts. It was very nice to see two middle aged gay men playing what was basically the central romantic relationship in the series. Even if one of them was involved with a woman as well. That and the lesbian couple made me feel this is not like just about every other show where gay people are not really a part of the narrative.

I do liked the fucked up humor. I also like the fact that to some degree, many of the characters, especially the lead, are either psychotic messes, or drawn to psychotic messes.

The guys Brick (awful name) and Christian are gorgeous. So is the hot DILF Bob. Haven't seen it all. Who gets outed? How does the last episode disappoint?

I'm about halfway through. It reminds me a bit of a second rate GCB. What I do like is that everyone is flawed, but you see a bit of humanity coming through. I think the outrage over the show is misplaced. The writer herself was a fat girl who became thin and still had the same demons. What better person to write this? I don't understand the outrage.

This proves that outrage culture has jumped the shark. This show is harmless fun. I enjoyed it.

Am I the only one who thinks Dallas Roberts looks like John Ritter on this show? I'd never put the two together, but there was something about his look on this show and kept screaming John Ritter to me.

R32, when I first started watching, I googled the show’s cast to see if the main character was being played by John Ritter’s son.

This looks horrible.

Acting is third rate, writing sophomoric, lead actress unlikeable. Waste of time. Not campy or clever, just low rent and dumb.

Not great, but loving seeing Gorham gaying it up. I crush on him big time.

The House of Flowers is better, even with the acting and camp factor, but Insatiable is still not a lost cause.

Christopher Gorham is so gorgeous!

Yes, R32, I think he looks like John Ritter too! I'm really enjoying this show. And what's Christopher Gorham's diet?

Are the blond kid and the lean Bob fucking off camera?

Watched it, loved it (mostly)...several of the characters were thoroughly enjoyable. No spoilers here, but I have a doubt as to whether a season 2 would ever be a possibility for so many different reasons. I have a feeling that with each plot twist, and there were so many, that I sank to a lower level of humanity WITH the characters. I wonder what, if anything, will become of this camp fest marvel of a show.

Dirty, guilty, fun fun fun.

Why did it get massacred by the critics? I wouldn't have even noticed there was anything offensive about it, if I'd never heard about the outrage. It's not the best thing I've seen, but it's involving enough to binge. Up to episode 8 with my Netflix free trial.

Yeah, I didn't get th controversy either. I've seen way more offensive series.

Fatties will find any reason to complain.

In this day and age, for some ungodly reason, people seem to want their art to reflect a better place where everyone's nice and there's zero conflict. Characters can't be fatphobic or suicidal or racist or homophobic because 3 people in the world might think that makes it ok to be like that in real life. So idiotic. Don't these idiots understand that without conflict there's no story?

It gets a dismal 23% on metacritic, but upper 90s from the user critics. So the public rebelled and made it a success anyway. The critics revealed themselves to be embarrassing cowards, unable to deal with anything but an ultra-PC approach to sensitive topics. Netflix would probably renew it, but I guess the story doesn't set itself up for continuing seasons, from what people have said.

Through five episodes, I adore this show. To me, it is Popular meets The Help meets GCB meets Drop Dead Gorgeous.

What's GCB?

R48

Um, you forgot Mean Girls, r47.

Patty = Cady

AND “The Girl Most Likely To ...” (1973), with a pre-Grease Stockard Channing

Yep, Girl Most Likely, as Sordid Lives, since it's southern.

as = also

I found it a bit meh.

While I did enjoy how gleefully un-PC it was and the camp aesthetic, I just didn't find it that more than mildly amusing and the slightly cartoony characters and situation called for belly laughs rather than an occasional smile. So I don't think it really works.

I also got to episode 8 before I realised that the wife who I kept thinking "she really looks like Alyssa Milano" whenever she came on the screen was, in fact, Alyssa Milano. I also got to the end before I realised that Charlene Tilton was actually Beverly D'Angelo.

[quote] I also got to episode 8 before I realised that the wife who I kept thinking "she really looks like Alyssa Milano" whenever she came on the screen was, in fact, Alyssa Milano

I was surprised that Milano was even in this since she is ultra PC in real life.

So am I, and if the show was genuinely offensive, it would've bothered me too. It isn't, sheesh, some people just don't get camp. The show does end with an extreme cliffhanger, but it does set up for further seasons. And it might get at least one, since it was a surprise hit and that over-the-top cliffhanger begs to be resolved.

House of Flowers also made a radical last episode left turn out of nowhere into an extreme cliffhanger, hitting us blindsided but definitely begging for some resolve.

I, too, was surprised Milano took this on if she'd thought it was offensive. I actually think it's some of her best work and I'm thrilled that she hasn't apologized for being in the show and is telling everyone to give it a shot.

There could be a million resolutions to the current plot that would flip everything into perfect PC order so, even though I don’t judge a show on correct moral content (yours is different from mine), for those of you in need of perfect pulcritude and correctness, there’s still many roads that can lead to that.

However, is it that funny or that engaging? Only at times. House of Flowers is better.

I binged the series in 2 days which is remarkable considering it took me months to finish season 2 of 13 Reasons Why, which ultimately had no payoff.

I agree that Dallas Roberts reminded me a lot of John Ritter but with a pinch of Scott Thompson from Kids in the Hall.

I found Alyssa Milano’s casting surprising. I believe she’s doing a good job with the material, but is not a natural fit for the role.

This is the only thing I've seen Alyssa in I've liked, aside from hosting Project Runway.

I love the tan girl from Christmas with The Kranks in this.

You mean Arden Myrin?

Why don’t you just say the girl from MadTV? That’s what she’s best known for:

Because that's what I know her from, cunt.

I didn't know she was from Mad TV either, and I did love Mad TV during its turn-of-the-century glory years. She must've come after I started ignoring it. I agree Arden was fab.

Arden always looks EXACTLY like Adam Scott in drag to me. Are they related at all?

Who keeps plugging House of Flowers? I downloaded it on someone's recommendation on this thread and I just can't get through the terrible acting.

I watched two episodes and I was out.

R69, House of Flowers is a telenovela! (dark comedy but still a telenovela, nonetheless). If you approach it the way you would Game of Thrones or Breaking Bad, you’re barking up the wrong tree.

It starts with lots of cliches and sprouts (pardon the pun) from there. But to each his own. And lots of eye candy and talented drag queens. Again, if you’re looking for OITNB, then yes, by all means, move on... but insatiable is even worse. No eye candy, no good acting, save Milano.

I think people complained not because of fat-shaming, but because it really is a genuinely terrible series.

Show is pretty bad but Michael Provost is damn cute. Especially shirtless, though can't find any pics or gifs of that.

I just watched the first three episodes and so far am loving it.

Only on episode 4. Is ugly Bob supposed to be a in a glass closet of just an effeminate straight guy?

You’ll need to keep watching r74. It would be a spoiler for you to have that question answered.

Just finished the season. God help me. They need to do a second season!

Because of this DL thread I became aware of the show and, as usual, DL doesn't disappoint. The show is right up my alley. To me the standout, from the character progession point of view, is the lesbian sidekick. I think she had a great overall story arc (it's a bit unfortunate that she got sidelined in the last few episodes). Love Alyssa Milano in it. But OMG! Arden Myrin is over the top hilarious in it. Love the dark humor with her stage mom character. Same goes for Irene Choi playing her daughter (that fight on the Wiener mobil!). And Michael Provost is dreamy!

The female lead didn't make much of an impression until the final scene of the birthday episode. Call me Mary! but that final scene was some 13 Reasons Why drama (as in good). I think that was the only time I really noticed-noticed the female lead.

I love how the show kind of comically drew so much attention to some of the castmembers missing in some episodes with elaborate exposition about them not being around. At least that's how it come off to me.

But the only thing I didn't care much about was the "throuple" subplot in the final episoses, because I knew it would turn into some serious Lifetime "these things never work out!" drama (and I was proven right by the end of episode 12).

Love the show and I do hope it comes back.

[quote]I love how the show kind of comically drew so much attention to some of the castmembers missing in some episodes with elaborate exposition about them not being around. At least that's how it come off to me.

You lost me here. Could you explain by means of an example?

Cora Lee (Alyssa Milano) was missing a couple of episodes, because she was furious about finding out about Bob's affair.

I thought they would go there and introduce Tony Danza as Coralee's dad. Maybe in the second season?

Oh I thought maybe you meant the actress who is also in American Housewife - who plays Hot Bob’s wife - who all of a sudden was MIA and they explained it lamely.

I liked the show.

But I found Gorham's "Georgia" accent so community theater. It was really irritating.

And Milano's accent wasn't much better. And her fingernails screamed New Jersey mob wife, not Atlanta Junior League.

Dallas's acting carried the show.

Bob 'Backdoor' Barnard

I love it!

Any word on a season 2?

Dallas Roberts is AMAZING. That last WHAT.THE.FUCK. scene cracked me up.

I loved the series up until they turned Patty into a murderer. That made no sense. As it didn't make sense for her to try and cover her tracks since she let Magnolia go free and Mags is a witness to the whole Xtian mess.

bump

I like everything except the lead actress. I can't understand why someone thought she would be right for the role? She ruins it.

Beverly D'Angelo used to be a beauty. I was surprised by her hardened look and gravelly voice.

D'Angelo has twins with Al Pacino but unfortunately she fucked him after he lost the hotness

D'Angelo has had A LOT of face work done. It does not look good.

Yes, Beverly D'Angelo was "hot" or whatever 30 plus years ago, as we all were.

Patty and Bob are soulmates; I wonder if they'll go there if there is a season 2.

For a show that does "over the top" pretty well, the last episode was an unnecessary attempt to shock by going too far.

Agree that he looks like John Ritter, like a cross between Ritter and David Duchovny. I thought the Asian daughter looked way too old and I agree that Patty is very unlikable.

Wonder if it will get renewed...

Why is Netflix OBSESSED with lesbians? Seriously, I don't get it. They have lesbian characters on all their shows yet hardly any gay males. Wonder why.

R22 So true. That ending was so fucked up and ruined the whole show for me. Too bad because it was good up till then.

R26 I agree. Well said.

[Quote]There could be a million resolutions to the current plot that would flip everything into perfect PC order so, even though I don’t judge a show on correct moral content (yours is different from mine), for those of you in need of perfect pulcritude and correctness, there’s still many roads that can lead to that.

I agree. I don't want to spoil anything, but I think the truth is the opposite of what Patty thinks, if that makes sense.

R77 The female lead is the weakest link on the show. The other characters are more interesting than her (also less annoying).

[Quote]But the only thing I didn't care much about was the "throuple" subplot in the final episoses, because I knew it would turn into some serious Lifetime "these things never work out!" drama (and I was proven right by the end of episode 12).

Same. I liked the gay storyline up to that point. I was surprised at how well done it was, considering the show is campy and bad (at least according to the critics). They wrote the storyline with so much sensibility. I feel they threw it all away with that stupid throuple shit. I also had a feeling one half of the couple only did it because he thought it was what the other one wanted. All the time I thought to myself, this won't work, all of them are not on board with it. Turns out I was right.

[Quote]I loved the series up until they turned Patty into a murderer. That made no sense.

Same. It was a stupid plot twist. I know we are supposed to believe Patty is "evil" or whatever. I know she is capable of doing many mean things, but to turn her into a murderer? Nah. They jumped the shark there imo. Then again... maybe she isn't a murderer? I have a feeling all is not what it seems. I don't think anyone died, they just made it seem that way.

R88 Same! The ONLY thing I didn't like was the lead actress. Maybe it didn't help that her character was mostly just annoying. I should have enjoyed the camp factor, but the character was the most cringe worthy on the entire show. All the other characters were immensely more fun and interesting than her.

Insatiable is, or should be, the Bob Armstrong/Dallas Roberts show. Making it the Patty Bladell story is what ruined it.

Did anyone else feel a slight jab at Todd Chrisley with this? I totally did, I wonder if he watched it.

Brick and Christian threesome please.

Totally R106

Looks like Netflix will renew anything

They better make her likable now r109, I really can't stand her.

michael provost is super hot

Michael should show off that hot body of his more

Any Atlanta guys have him while he was there filming?

On Shameless, the guy who wanted Carl to shoot him because he didn't want to go to the military academy, just figured out it's Bob's son from this show.

piece of pure shallow shit.

I’m loving it so far. Campy as fuck.

The lead looks much too old, however. What’s done is done.

I love the dark humor. That's what Glee should been. A dark, campy comedy about teen angst and teen ambition ... and some old folk drama.

It would have been nice if something supernatural really had happened...

is it just me that thinks this series is awesome really i wish the two male actors were hotter but i mean at least there's hot bob who really isn't hot but

I still have no idea what anyone saw in definitely not hot Bob.

He's confused and half straight. DL loves anything that is straight.

I liked how it danced gleefully and unapologetically over the edge of bad taste and back again. I liked that the lead actress has a strong unlikeable stripe. It reminded me of The Opposite of Sex. I also loved the discussion of male bisexuality that moved beyond chaste tokenism to actually show MMF love scenes, discussions of polyamory, warts and all.

If there is a season 2, I hope they don't mellow out due to social criticism. Go harder, get more outlandish, and find your tribe, Netflix!

There is going to be a season 2 R122

Will season two come to Netflix next year?

Unless they're going to pull a Stranger Things and wait a year a half when people will have forgotten and moved on, I'd imagine we will see another season next year.

I love that they held strong and didn't react to idiotic SJW Twitter/Tumblr complaints about a show they hadn't even seen. I wish more people would do that and just say "shut up! We don't care what you think" and not pull any punches. It seems like they found their audience in the process. I hear a lot of people talking about it. Seems like a nice little cult hit.

Filmmakers/writer/actors/etc., let this be a lesson to you all - these Twitter idiots don't have the power to tank a show. Don't give them that power.

Openly gay actor Vincent Rodriguez III from Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to recur in season 2

That's great news R127. I think VRIII is adorable

Dallas Roberts plays queeny REALLY well.

They need to strike now with season 2 while the iron is still lukewarm from season 1. I almost forgot about this show.

r127 that is a bad picture of him

I just discovered this and binged all of it. Started out pretty bad but I find Dallas Roberts sexy as hell so I kept watching just for him. Season 2 was better I think.

I tried watching it, but found the writing too over-the-top. The sexuality fluidity of two of the characters is a bit too convenient and the show had a disturbing pattern of always disposing of love interests who were not white (the guy's wife, the lesbian friend's girlfriend and one or two others), which made it seem like those characters were thrown in temporarily just to meet a quota.

A Ryan Seacrest Production

this was worth binging again in the pandemic

doppelgängers