Presented By: Keara Friberg

Lauren Gussis Presented by: Keara Friberg Lauren Gussis is the creator of the Netflix series, “Insatiable.” The show’s basic premise is about a girl who loses weight after being bullied for being fat, and decides to get revenge on her bullies by becoming a pageant queen. The show has received much criticism for “fat-shaming” and the objectification of women. However, the show’s creator Lauren Gussis has dealt with an eating disorder in the past, and created the show in order to tell her own story through it’s characters. “I also think that in art, "should" is a very, very dangerous word. I think that if we try to tell people how they should tell their stories, if we try to silence them, then we are doing the opposite of what art needs to do, which is to spark conversation and I think we are, as a society, getting very close to the dangers of censorship. And I think that if we tell people, and artists specifically, that you can only tell a story in a certain way and you are only allowed to tell a story in a way that makes me feel comfortable, then we're never offering ourselves an opportunity to grow and that artists have the right and the obligation to tell their own truths and not be told that they should tell it a certain way.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z-81WVD8xTs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J-2iI6k8aM “The way that we shot that scene, it's one continuous shot so that we could show what it actually looks like for a person who looks like Debby Ryan to eat an entire cake. There was an editor's cut version where they cut so that it wasn't that long, painful, uncomfortable shot, and that played like comedy. That's why there's no music, and that's why all you hear is the sound of her chewing, because — in my experience and in the experience of other people who are on set, by the way — that's what a real binge looks like. It's quiet and it's sad and it's ugly.” “I was very interested in telling a story about someone who people assume that there's a good — just because she's heavy doesn't mean she's a bad person. You should look underneath the hood. But what happens when she's not really that good of a person? She never focused on working on herself.” “Insatiable is a surreally wild comedy that’s also low-key the most progressive thing on TV right now.” https://slate.com/human-interest/2018/08/insatiable-netflix-review-critics-a re-missing-its-camp-sensibility.html “In this wildly modern version of the South (refreshingly so, for this gay Southerner), gay acceptance is a personal battle, not a social or legislative one. Over the course of the season, Nonnie comes out and starts dating a girl, realizing how toxic her obsessive friendship with Patty is. Bob questions his own sexuality with beautiful lines like, “If demons exist, maybe bisexuals do too.” There’s even an attempt at polyamory by the end of the show. Characters balk at the idea of gay bashing and never think being queer is a problem. And sex is just a fact. When Bob’s son Brick (Michael Provost) is getting his room ready to have a girl over, Bob, rather than scold his son for even considering a hookup, just starts teasing him about his sex date. Identity and self-expression are no big deal; all these real-world debates are settled from above so we can shift our focus from who someone is to how they behave.”.

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