Alyssa Milano Has a New Show About a Fat Girl Who Becomes Hot. Outrage Ensues.
So perpetually attractive actress, clothing designer, frequent dater of athletes and social activist Alyssa Milano chose to post the trailer of the new Netflix series she’s in, Insatiable. Since the show appears to be a Pygmalion-type story in which a fat, picked-on high school girl suddenly turns super hot and uses her newfound popularity to get revenge on everyone who bullied her, you might assume Alyssa’s fellow SJWs would appreciate the concept. But you’d be guessing wrong. This was not well received. At all. Apparently the whole concept of a girl who has to get her jaw wired shut in order to turn into Debby Ryan and thus become super popular isn’t going over all that well:
Ouch. Keep in mind as you see the suppressive fire Alyssa Milano is taking from all directions on this, it’s not her show. She didn’t produce or direct it. She’s just one of the cast. An actress who took a job acting in a Netflix series just to earn a living. And she’s being charged with a hate crime because in the early scenes the star wears a fat suit.
On most of these big societal debates over the great issues of our time, I find don’t (pardon the choice of words) have a dog in the fight. I’m just sitting on the sidelines watching the action. But I have to say on this one, I’m on Team Milano all the way. I’m no fan of actually fat shaming actual teenage girls. But revenge plots are maybe the best kind of fiction. The idea of a girl with a weight problem waking up one day to find she’s unrecognizably hot and turning her powers against her enemies for vengeance is badass. It’s empowering. Like Mean Girls meets Revenge meets Braveheart. It seems like the message of this show is not to underestimate someone because of what they look like. And if, in order to tell the story, they have to acknowledge the unfortunate truth that high school is better when you look like regular Debbie Ryan instead of Debby Ryan in fat girl makeup, well that’s just reality. Sorry, @tishsjuts09 and all the rest. Your body is a costume. And I’m so watching Insatiable.