Physical
Stretch your limits.
Sheila Rubin is a quietly tormented housewife in ’80s San Diego. Behind closed doors, she battles extreme personal demons and a vicious inner voice. But things change when she discovers aerobics, sparking a journey toward empowerment and success.
Wokeness: 80%
Overall Score: 20%
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Michaels
Physical in terms of sex
I didn't make it through the first episode. Therefore, take my ratings with a grain of salt.
Well-rated by most at IMDB, this show is set in the 80's with a middle aged couple still living like it's still the hippy 60's. The woman is going to be a popular TV aerobics instructor, and the husband is a professor on the way down. The first thing the couple tries to do is seduce a young female university student.
The 80's was peak AIDS scare. By the mid-80's, this sort of behavior would be both rare and usually unsuccessful. But okay, it seems like the story is set in 1981 or 1982. So, they are perhaps not rewriting history.
Food is another story element. The female star is apparently going to develop an eating disorder. Yeah, that happens, but mostly she seems to be making semi-rational choices: don't eat the donut, but then do eat the honey but then feel a bit guilty about that and not getting to ballet class. If you want to be in shape, you do need to exercise and watch what you eat, but I feel like the show will focus on the bad effects of doing this to an extreme, which is less common a problem than obesity in our current society. But again, maybe for 1981-1982 it's on target. My high school's homecoming queen around that time went into the hospital for bulimia/anorexia.
The characters were unlikable, there was nothing funny in what was billed as a comedy-drama, and putting the teen seduction-for-threesome scene first did not bode well for the series. So I bailed immediately.
Created: 09-10-2023