The thing about female rage, a phrase used ubiquitously today when women’s needs and emotions are pushed to the forefront of pop culture and cinematic conversations, is that it kind of always needs a motivation or else you run the risk of it falling entirely flat. That’s the main problem with “Physical,” creator and showrunner Annie Weisman’s strident new Apple TV+ dramedy about a housewife and mom (Rose Byrne) grappling with eating and body dysmorphic disorders who decides to become an aerobics instructor.
On one hand, “Physical” seems to want to fall in line with its distant cousin and similarly flawed series, AMC’s “Kevin Can F**k Himself,” in that it centers a woman seething with displeasure and frequently misdirecting it. But while the latter’s lead character (Annie Murphy) has a specific bone to pick with her patriarchal home life, “Physical” has offered no reason for...
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- 6/16/2021
- by Candice Frederick
- The Wrap
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