Most people who view televisions series with great intensity in joy, laughter, and passion are not in the slightest bit cognizant of the massive process that is undertaken just to bring that series to reality. From the conceptualization process on through creation and production until the pilot finally gets picked up by a network after receiving financial backing from a film company, it reaches the TV screen. Well, “Dietland,” an AMC Dark Comedy-Drama has gone through a great deal of the initial process and it is beginning to take shape.
There have been times that, Marti Nixon (Mad Men, Buffy the Vampire Slayer), the show’s executive producer wondered if it would get this far, but things are rounding out to finally deliver to AMC what it ordered – another dark comedy-drama, which happens to be all the rave as of late. The casting director and producers have cast Joy Nash (Twin Peaks and The Mindy Project) in the lead role. The show is an adaption of Sarai Walker’s book of the same name. The book was published in 2015, so this is definitely a rapid adaptation.
Marti Nixon will not only be the executive producer of the show, but he is slated to direct several episodes of the show as well.
The is intended to be both, comedic and thought-provoking in a culture that is highly obsessed with weight loss and thin and petite figures. The show presents a revenge fantasy plot that illuminates the obsession with being thin and how it can negatively impact women who are struggling with their self-image.
The lead character, Plum Kettle, goes to extraordinary lengths to avoid being noticed, because being noticed when you are overweight leads to undue ridicule. She currently works for a teen publication where she opens fan mail, which is definitely not the job of her dreams. The thing is that “weight loss surgery” is on the horizon and the emotionally and psychologically tortured woman is simply trying to make to that point in which her surgery will lead to her being able to live the life of a thin person. How many of you who are reading this now knows that things are not going to go as planned?
Ultimately, Plum is targeted by an underground group of women who have decided to live life by an entirely different set of rules and standards, and while Plum wrestles with her own demons, she becomes entangled in a sinister plan that will lead to a catastrophic end. Okay, that is enough of that. Prepare to catch the rest when the show airs.
It appears that Joy Nash is an ideal candidate for the role, as she is no stranger to confronting the pressures of “image” and attempting to assimilate into a “world” that is not willing to accept you as you are. When Joy was in acting school at USC in 2007, she posted a monologue to YouTube addressing these challenges and definitely carried gravity with women and men who could relate to what she shared. The video has received nearly two million views so far.
Nixon is very happy with the choice of Joy Nash as Plum, and the process and the grind to get this on the screen continues.
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