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I've heard stories of girls who grow up happy and well adjusted with a healthy relationship to food and their bodies.

Screw those bitches.

Hello, and welcome to another Slate Spoiler Special.

I'm Slate podcast producer Daniel Schrader, and today we're spoiling Insatiable, the

much maligned Netflix series starring Debbie Ryan and Dallas Roberts.

Here to talk with me about the show is Senior Managing Producer Slate Podcasts June Thomas. Hey, June. Hey, Daniel. And Vox Culture staff writer Constance Grady. Hey, Constance. Hey, thank you for having me. Of course, thanks for coming on. So, I guess we should dive in. Let's talk about insatiable. First, I guess we should get first impressions.

What did we think of the show? How did it go down or not the first time you watched it? Constance.

All right. Well, this is going to be interesting because we've kind of flipped the balance of power, right?

Like, I think Insatiable has what an 11 or 12% on rotten tomatoes right now, but in this room...

Oh, it had 10, but then it has 11 now that I've reviewed it. Because of you. Because of you. Yes. You single-handedly saved it. So you two both like the show, and I am more on the not a fan end of the spectrum. So we're a little bit switching around the conversation. I guess for me, the main thing

with insatiable is that it's about this fantasy of what if someone hurt me so badly I couldn't

eat anymore and then my body became perfect, right? Which we see play out with the main character

Patty, who's a fat girl, who her classmates

call Fatty Patty, who gets into a fight with a homeless man when he tries to steal her

chocolate bar.

He hits her, she gets her jaw wired shut for three months, she can eat, she's on a liquid

diet, and then she becomes incredibly beautiful.

And the rest of the show is her, like, trying to wreak her revenge

on her classmates by going into beauty pageeting. So I think a lot of the disagreement about

this show comes down to, do you think the show is subverting this fantasy? Or is it sort of

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