‘Dietland’ Review: AMC’s Satirical Series Is Better When It’s Sincere

For those who (like me) haven’t read Sarai Walker’s book Dietland, it was a little tough to get a sense of AMC’s adaptation just from its trailers. Is it about the sins of the fashion industry, the woes of weight loss, or a revenge fantasy centered around women taking the vigilante option against abusive men who have otherwise gone unpunished? As of its first three episodes, it’s a little bit of all of those things, and yet, no one thing in particular. Most disappointingly, in service of wanting to be a subversive comedy, it shies away …

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