Jamie Oliver - Episodes 2 - 5
Zuh?
I don't know what y'all are saying about "it gets better."
It's gotten worse.
They keep trotting out Death Fats tearfully telling us how their fat is killing them, or family members of people who've died because of complications from obesity.
Jamie finally talks to skinny teenagers, and instead of talking about health, he tells them that french fries will make their bottoms wider.
He shows that crappy DJ a fucking death fat coffin specially designed for a larger corpse.
THIS ISN'T BETTER, PEOPLE, THIS IS WORSE.
Ep 5 Edit: Hooray for the local hospital admins (all of whom were thin, btw) calling him out on his fat-shaming PR stunts. (Namely, taking the DJ to the funeral home to see the oversize coffin.)
I'm also interested to note that a lot of the kids in the high school aren't fat. There's some, but the ZOMG DETHFATZ they keep trotting out don't seem to be the norm...at least not in these shots.
If there's anything that's truly bothering me about watching this show is that I don't trust a word of it. I don't trust Jamie because while most of the stuff he says on camera (earlier on, anyway) doesn't conflate weight and health, I have no way of knowing what he said off-camera. On top of that, I don't trust the editing because the best way to make a show popular to show the extremes of things. So you get moments like the Edwards family being taken to the doctor by Jamie and the girl on his cooking team weeping about how her fat is killing her.
What if the Edwards don't have insurance? They've got four kids. That's an expensive doctor's visit without it.
What is that girl's family history? Is her family obese? Do they have similar issues?
This stuff doesn't occur in a vacuum, and the way this show presents its narrative there's no way to discern the truth.
UGH.
I don't know what y'all are saying about "it gets better."
It's gotten worse.
They keep trotting out Death Fats tearfully telling us how their fat is killing them, or family members of people who've died because of complications from obesity.
Jamie finally talks to skinny teenagers, and instead of talking about health, he tells them that french fries will make their bottoms wider.
He shows that crappy DJ a fucking death fat coffin specially designed for a larger corpse.
THIS ISN'T BETTER, PEOPLE, THIS IS WORSE.
Ep 5 Edit: Hooray for the local hospital admins (all of whom were thin, btw) calling him out on his fat-shaming PR stunts. (Namely, taking the DJ to the funeral home to see the oversize coffin.)
I'm also interested to note that a lot of the kids in the high school aren't fat. There's some, but the ZOMG DETHFATZ they keep trotting out don't seem to be the norm...at least not in these shots.
If there's anything that's truly bothering me about watching this show is that I don't trust a word of it. I don't trust Jamie because while most of the stuff he says on camera (earlier on, anyway) doesn't conflate weight and health, I have no way of knowing what he said off-camera. On top of that, I don't trust the editing because the best way to make a show popular to show the extremes of things. So you get moments like the Edwards family being taken to the doctor by Jamie and the girl on his cooking team weeping about how her fat is killing her.
What if the Edwards don't have insurance? They've got four kids. That's an expensive doctor's visit without it.
What is that girl's family history? Is her family obese? Do they have similar issues?
This stuff doesn't occur in a vacuum, and the way this show presents its narrative there's no way to discern the truth.
UGH.