![]() ![]() ![]() Episode one doesn’t really follow the clunking old beats of a scene-setting pilot show at all: we see Byrne’s Sheila come to, self-hating in the bathroom mirror, before Danny knocks on the door and tries to convince her they should have a threesome. I do have to mention this, after reading that paragraph back: the show is actually very funny.Ĭreator Annie Weisman has a background as a playwright, and you can tell: Physical has a level of guile about it that is rare on the screen. And then, enlightenment: she discovers the holy joy of aerobics – building an exercise video empire in the process – and the voices go quiet. And we see her fall prey to all her darkest and basest urges, stripping off her clothes in a dirty motel to eat three burgers and a milkshake alone before puking it all back up. We see her as the glamorous wife to an upstart politician. We see Byrne drop her daughter off at nursery and effortlessly cater a dinner party. But Byrne is playing two versions of the same character – the polite-at-the-school-gates smiling face of domestic bliss and competence and then, in voiceover, the insidious internal dialogue that fuels her self-hatred, telling her she’s fat, she’s old, she’s out of control, she’s useless. Rose Byrne, the star of the show, plays Sheila Rubin, a down-on-herself, unfulfilled housewife in southern California, 1981 – so far, who cares. So it is fair to say I am enamoured with this series. ![]()
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