Priya Rosenbloom

An actually accurate portrayal of anorexia, finally. I see a lot of people saying they don’t like the main character but, honestly, this illness makes you act in ways that you can’t reconcile with how you are at your core. Especially when you’re first out in the world after being hospitalized. You lie and hide things and mistreat people because your sick brain is in fight mode. I’m glad they didn’t try to make her seem more likable because that would have taken away from the true, deep exploration of the turbulence that is *trying* to recover from an eating disorder. As an anorexic who has been in recovery for years now, I was moved to see the types of things they actually showed as far as behaviors, thoughts, feelings, and reactions. If this show had existed before I ended up in residential treatment, I just may have recovered faster. There were so many things I was too ashamed to admit/talk about. So many things I thought made me disgusting and I was positive very few others (even those who were outwardly, clearly very sick) had experienced. Seeing these things through another person’s journey makes them so much less taboo. Also, really beautiful acting. I was sobbing by the end.