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My first thoughts were, WTF? The trailer advertised this fun, colorful, '80s romp, along the lines of the 1985 Jamie Lee Curtis and John Travolta film "Perfect," and instead got this weird, '70s, bulimia show where her husband is going to run for political office? The writing is terrible. Most of it is a Rose Byrne narration of her neurotic, obsessive compulsive, angry thoughts that sound very modern and not remotely '80s. Both Rose Byrne and her husband are stuck in the '70s, in their '70s house, clothes, hair, and conversations, where they just insert the words "Ronald Regan" in it 3 times in order to time stamp it, along with glimpses of an aerobics instructor, which was the only thing remotely accurate in the first episode.

Either the writer is a Boomer, fantasizing about the '70s, which she was still stuck in during the '80s, and thought aerobics would be a fun gimmick, or it's written by someone who didn't experience the '80s, never watched an '80s movie, didn't grow up on '80s television. I'm aware the setting starts in 1981, but so did Freaks and Geeks and that at least bothered to be accurate and entertaining. Like, it actually reminds me of movies from the '70s that have this dark tone, that are mostly a spewing of thoughts about average people in their average lives...but, not in a good way, like Ordinary People.

The only plus is the style. It's nice to look at...other than weird moments like Rose Byrne binge eating, and a hippie eating honey out of the jar in a grocery store. This show is best to watch on mute with Mystery Theater 3000 voice-over substitution to overlap the cringey dialogue and narrations. It was painful. Rose Byrne looks great, as always, this just sucks. Not sure if I will make it to episode 2 to see if it gets better as I barely made it through one. Too bad, Apple+ was really on a role with good shows.

The first season is good to watch, but unfortunately the series suffers the fate of so many similar productions: It exhausts itself in a completely overemotionalized and psychologically exaggerated self-reflection of the protagonists far from an entertaining plot. Undoubtly in the productoin were circles at work whose obsession includes cultivating their psychological quirks. The plot, which could have been actually entertaining, suffers from this and makes the series boring to unenjoyable for wide circles.

Overall, it's a real shame here for the lavish production, which could have really become a hit with a better plot.

Why is there no one in such a production chain who prevents a great potential from being driven to the wall in such a way?

Not hate but until episode 5 I give a try.... but nope. Enough, please that NON STOP self talking 🙄. As well didn't find comedy at all. Love Rose but that show not for me...

I really wanted to like this show but the storytelling didn't move smoothly from episode to episode for me. The aerobics was in the background of the whole season and the ending was so weirdly depressing. I'm not pumped to watch season 2 because this series is too much of a downer.

My wife and I like the same movies, the same series, so I was curious to see if we had the same taste of series as my sister-in-law as she clearly enjoyed this show very much. I guess we don't as we found it borderline boring. Rose Byrne is not a bad actress, nor were the rest of the cast, but that's about it. Categorized as a comedy/drama I can only agree there was a lot of drama but as for the comedy I'm still waiting for my first laugh, let alone a shy grin. It's basically about an eating disorder, a subject I have zero percent empathy for. It might sound cruel but it's what it is. You're hungry, you eat, you're not hungry you don't eat, you're fat you watch what you're eat, you're too thin you change your diet as well. To me it's that simple. So watching and mostly hearing a narrating voice whining about her disorder and that during three full seasons is just boring. They dragged this show out for three seasons, way too long in my opinion, but as I finish everything I started watching, good or bad, I can't say I had a great time watching Physical. Glad it's finally finished, time for something much better, hopefully.