Dietland: fat is good

Also appeared in my recent top 30 of the best serial news of the year this series (exactly at number 14), conceived by Marti Noxon and on air since June 4, 2018 on AMC. It's a strange series this Dietland, not much expected as a concept but very much expected, instead, for the return on the screens of Her Majesty Julianna Margulies, out of the radar for 2 years now, since that ending of The Good Wife that had seen her protagonist for 7 years.
In Italy the series was put online on Amazon Prime Video.

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Despite the presence in the cast of a star like Margulies, the real star of the series is Joy Nash, who plays Alicia "Prugna" Kittle, a very gruesome and insecure fashion writer who hasn't been able to come to terms with her body for a long time now, who refuses, denies and sees as the cause of all her problems, from personal to professional ones. Alicia, in fact, despite being a famous editor able to respond to her readers and live in her own light with her column, can not show herself to the public, can not interact publicly and reveal herself for what she is, hiding behind the name, face and fame of Kitty Montgomery, ruthless editor-in-chief of the magazine for which "Prugna" writes but for which she can not put her face because too fat.
And it is from this theme that the whole story unravels in a continuous succession of references and reflections on the role that fashion, advertising, marketing everything and large corporations have on our choices.
How many times do we really choose to be happy by embracing weapons like liposuction, slimming diets, body creams and everything that makes us more beautiful/beautiful? Is that really what we want? Is it this vortex that brings us sadness and depression? How far do we have to go in pursuit of perfect appearances?
The series puts these questions at the centre of everything and does so with a very appropriate and original stratagem.
"Plum" will try to make a drastic decision to turn your life around: undergo slimming surgery. At that very moment, however, she will be attacked on all sides by people she doesn't know and who will not try to do anything else but dissuade her from that decision.
It is a kind of conspiracy on the contrary that we are witnessing, with so many forces pushing us in the opposite direction to what the corporations, the beauty industry and TV want us to go through. No more adjustments, no more running after beauty, the time has come to accept ourselves for who we are, these voices seem to say to Alicia. Soon these voices will materialize in bodies and faces behind this great plot to subvert the status quo and free our essence at the expense of appearance.

Dietland is therefore a new series, not in the demographic but in the conceptual sense, which tries to give new readings to very worrying phenomena and pushes us to look for the keystone of our lives. A courageous series that, however, often implodes on itself with a script that is not always in the best shape and a sometimes chaotic staging without forgetting a return, unfortunately, of the always wonderful Juliana Marguilies. <br< A good product, which will probably not be remembered by future generations but which can give you some food for thought if you are looking for yourself or if you are simply passionate about the theme of being vs having, substance vs appearance.