Netflix renewed ‘Insatiable’ for a season 2 despite bad reviews, fat-shaming controversy

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• Netflix renewed its controversial original TV series,
  “Insatiable,” which upset many people who viewed it as
  fat-shaming. 
• The show, which has many fat jokes meant to be satire,
  features a protagonist who is a formerly overweight teenager,
  played by a thin actress who wears a fat suit for flashback
  scenes. 
• Many people are not happy that the show was renewed, but its
  season 2 could be explained by the fact that a lot of people
  watched the show despite the backlash, according to an app that
  tracks what people binge-watch every week. 

 

Netflix just renewed its controversial comedy, “Insatiable,” for
a second season. And many people are not happy, especially
considering over 230,000 signed a petition for the show to be
canceled
before it had even debuted.

Critics (including
me) and activists were appalled by the show’s fat-shaming,
though it was meant to be satire. The series, which documents the
life of a teenage girl after she loses weight, and is suddenly
skinny because her jaw was wired shut, is supposed to be critical
of society’s erasure of women who don’t meet beauty standards.
But it fails miserably.

Still, audiences loved and flocked to it. Critics gave it a
Rotten Tomatoes score of 11%, but its audience score stands at
83%. For weeks, “Insatiable” was at the top of TV Time’s Binge
Report, which tracks and ranks interest in shows based on
the number of episodes consumed by the millions of fans across
the globe in the TV Time
app.

It seems that while “Insatiable” had a lot of vocal detractors,
it had many fans as well.

Here are some of the reactions to the “Insatiable” renewal, which
upset many people, including fans of controversy-free shows
Netflix has canceled like “Everything Sucks”: