Is there appetite for eating disorders sitcom?
NEW YORK (MedPage Today) — Take 1: the FX network’s new comedy series “Starved” is an audacious but ultimately fond and respectful look at Americans’ obsessions with eating, dieting, and body image. Take 2: “Starved” is a tasteless, exploitive travesty that mocks people with serious, life-threatening eating disorders. Even before the show’s debut (tonight at 10 pm ET), critical opinions on Starved have been all over the map. ” ‘Starved’ just might be the most repulsive show to hit the airwaves this year,” wrote the Boston Herald’s TV critic, while his crosstown rival at the Boston Globe called the program both “offensive” and “sick,” but also “funny, poignant, and culturally relevant.” The New York Times’ opinion came down squarely in the middle, saying that “it’s not quite funny enough.” FX, a network that is building a reputation on edgy programs, has this to say about tonight’s pilot episode: “Four New Yorkers — Sam, Billie, Adam and Dan — struggle with various eating disorders a
