The plight of the fat character
I keep hearing about the show This is Us and how incredible, amazing, real, emotional it is. Plus, there's a real live fat actress on there portraying a fat, American woman. Isn't that just great? Now real American women get to see someone on the television that looks more like us. Except she's only there to diet. Now before you jump on me for not 'giving the show a chance', know that I watched half the season - 7 full shows and then about a quarter of show #8. And it's all the same. The two brothers have an awful relationship. Kate takes care of Jack until Jack moves away so that Kate can focus full time on dieting. Kate sabotages a relationship because she didn't lose weight fast enough. She struggles and focuses and obsesses about her weight. It's the only thing we get to see about her. I want to see the amazing, smart, and funny woman there, but the show won't let me because we only get to see her at a diet meeting or at a restaurant pushing a