"Starved": The Best Show on TV

The seven episode mini-season of FX's "Starved" ended last Thursday. I was going to write a review but it appears that one Christopher Scott Sarno has posted this review which perfectly captures my (& Mrs. Macswain's) feelings about the show.

The shorter version is that the show tracks the lives of four friends who've apparently met through an eating disorder group (a sick & twisted version of AA called "Belt Tighteners"). I initially winced at the concept but the character development is so well done that the show is both hilarious and heartbreaking. One of the funniest scenes to ever appear on TV occurs in episode 2 where a colonic goes horribly awry for the show's main character Sam [a description could never do this scene justice; it is a must-see gut buster].


Hopefully FX will run repeats in the next few weeks. I would encourage everybody to watch and to give it a couple of episodes as, again, its strength is the charater development.