I mean she does have a point about women wanting to believe they can look like Sheila if they do her workout. How much does this confession truly mean when she only tells Greta the truth out of anger? Is Greta’s insistence that Sheila’s eating disorder makes her fitness empire a lie true? It’s perhaps the fallout from Sheila’s confession of bulimia that is the hardest to parse. She points out the uncomfortable power imbalance at the heart of their relationship, how much Sheila uses Greta as the token fat friend meant to boost her self-esteem, and all the other ways she keeps secrets from her even as she claims they’re close. She calls her out for being a terrible friend, the kind that only calls when she needs something. Related Physical Season 2 Episode 4 Review: Don't You Know Physical – Photo Courtesy of Apple TV+īut there’s also something tremendously cathartic watching Greta finally lose it with Sheila and say basically everything that the audience has likely wanted to yell at her for the past season and a half. There’s something intensely gratifying about watching Sheila scheme her way out of a contract with a bunch of gross men who don’t value her or the product she’s creating and don’t have her best interests at heart.
Part of the problem is that this show has never really known, at its heart, whether it’s a black comedy where we’re supposed to delight in Sheila’s many transgressions or a dark tragedy where we’re supposed to be horrified at how far and how fast this woman is falling.Īnd its crisis of identity is glaringly apparent in this episode, which shows us a Sheila who looks as though she’s making legitimate strides forward even as it seemingly asks us to applaud her blowing up her own life for no reason other than she can. Is this a woman we’re meant to be rooting for? Are we meant to be hoping for her triumph? Or imagining her fall? Physical – Photo Courtesy of Apple TV+ Yes, it gives plenty of reasons for her awfulness - her eating disorder, her need for control, her inability to be honest with anyone, her tendency to use those closest to her for her own ends - but it also leaves, us, as an audience, at a crossroads about how we’re meant to feel about her. Yet, part of the reason it works so well is that it unabashedly doubles down on what a horrible person Sheila is, something that makes it an installment that’s rather difficult to enjoy. PhysicalSeason 2 Episode 7, “Don’t You Have Enough,” is probably the best episode of the season to date.
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