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★ 7.3 14K votes 2021–2023 3 seasons · 30 episodes Ended Apple TV
Female perspectiveWomen's experience as the defining lens.This show: 9/10Character studyInterior life matters more than plot.This show: 9/10Addiction & viceSubstance abuse and self-destruction up close.This show: 8/10Mental healthPsychological struggle treated with real seriousness.This show: 8/10Dark comedyFinding the laughs in grim and taboo material.This show: 8/10Antihero leadA protagonist doing bad things you can't stop watching.This show: 8/10Strong female leadA complex woman drives the story.This show: 8/10Unreliable narratorThe telling itself can't be trusted.This show: 7/10
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Starring
Rose ByrneRory ScovelDierdre FrielPaul SparksGrace Kelly QuigleyErin Pineda
Written by
Annie Weisman
Starring
Rose ByrneRory ScovelDierdre FrielPaul SparksGrace Kelly QuigleyErin Pineda
Written by
Annie Weisman
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About

"A glossy surface hiding real psychological rot"

Set in early-1980s San Diego, this show follows Sheila, an outwardly cheerful housewife hiding a brutal inner voice of self-loathing and a secret eating disorder. When she discovers aerobics, it becomes both salvation and obsession, launching her toward an unlikely fitness empire. The tone is dark and uncomfortable, laced with biting internal narration that never lets you settle into easy comedy. Rose Byrne's performance carries the whole thing, turning something bleak into something magnetic. It's a slow-burn character study about ambition, self-destruction, and reinvention, dressed up in leg warmers and neon.

Watch it for

Rose Byrne's fearless performance as a woman warring with her own mind.

Maybe skip if

you find unrelenting internal cruelty and body-image content hard to sit with.

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All Seasons

Season 12021
7.44K104h 46m
Season 22022
7.63K104h 59m
Season two finds our hero Sheila Rubin having successfully launched her first fitness video only to encounter some new and bigger obstacles on her path. She is torn between loyalty to her husband and the values he represents, and a dangerous attraction to someone else. And since she’s no longer the only game in town, she finds herself having to outrun some fierce new competitors on the road to building a full-fledged fitness empire.
Season 32023
7.02K101h 30m
In the third and concluding season, Sheila finds her status challenged by rising celebrity exercise goddess Kelly Kilmartin, who becomes not only a professional threat, but manages to get in her head. Will Sheila prevail, or will Kelly’s presence in her life undermine the hard-earned healing and stability that Sheila has worked so hard for?

Full Cast & Crew

Cast

Rose Byrne Sheila Rubin
Rory Scovel Danny Rubin
Dierdre Friel Greta Hauser, Greta
Paul Sparks John Breem
Grace Kelly Quigley Maya, Maya Rubin
Erin Pineda Maria Breem
Della Saba Bunny
Lou Taylor Pucci Tyler
Ian Gomez Ernie Hauser
Geoffrey Arend Jerry Goldman

Crew

Annie Weisman

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