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->''"This saved me. Not you, not college, not sex, not Maya, not another fucking baby. This. So get with the program, or just get out of the fucking way."''
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* ContrivedCoincidence: Just before they leave San Diego Tyler begs Bunny to go to the beach one last time, and she lets him. As Tyler says his goodbyes, he notices that someone is drowning -- and it's none other than Danny. That this is a coincidence of the highest order is lampshaded multiple times, and it allows Tyler to spill a secret of Sheila's ([[spoiler:her affair with John Breem]]) that she had thus far successfully been keeping from Danny.
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* HappilyMarried: Sheila's friends Ernie and Greta, after they work through their marriage's DeadSparks phase in season 1, are all loved up in season 2. Sheila and Danny, who are ''not'' happily married, are often uncomfortably subject to their tales of spicing it up in bed, [[spoiler:including being on the receiving end of a swinging attempt]].
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* OutclassedAtTheGym: Sheila invites her FatBestFriend Greta to her aerobics class. The beginner Greta finds it humiliating and difficult to follow along with the trim, experienced students and leaves on the verge of tears. Sheila picks up on this insecurity, and offers to teach Greta at home. This is the beginning of her plan to start a line of aerobics home videos, because she realizes that a lot of women can't or won't go to classes or the gym.
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* RapeAsBackstory: [[spoiler:Sheila is estranged from her wealthy parents because they didn't believe that her father's friend assaulted her as a teenager.]]
* SurferDude: Tyler, a laid-back San Diego beach bro who can barely string two sentences together, loves weed, and can't resist the call of the waves, even with [[spoiler:a diagnosis of surfer's ear]].
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* WeightWoe: Sheila suffers from binge-eating disorder and obsessed with staying trim. She meticulously watches what she eats, calls herself fat and ugly in her interal monologue, and often puts other people down mentally for eating high-calorie foods or offering her food. During moments of stress, however, she'll gorge and then tell herself it'll be the last time.
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* WeightWoe: Sheila suffers from binge-eating disorder and obsessed with staying trim. She meticulously watches what she eats, calls herself fat and ugly in her interal internal monologue, and often puts other people down mentally for eating high-calorie foods or offering her food. During moments of stress, however, she'll gorge and then tell herself it'll be the last time.time.
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* RichKidTurnedSocialActivist: We learn in the fourth episode that Sheila, a former '60s radical, is the daughter of country-club [=WASPs=] who disapproved of her liberal Jewish husband.
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[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do you really think you are pulling this whole thing off?"'']]
''Physical'' is an American dark comedy/drama series created by Creator/AnnieWeisman for Creator/AppleTVPlus. Its first season premiered in 2021; its third and final season premiered in 2023.
Creator/RoseByrne stars as Sheila Rubin, a repressed housewife in 1980s San Diego married to unsuccessful academic Danny (Creator/RoryScovel). Sheila spends her days going to ballet, watching her daughter, judging others in her internal monologue, and keeping her weight in check with a vicious eating disorder. But after she discovers the aerobics studio of Bunny Kazam (Creator/DellaSaba), Sheila becomes obsessed with the exercise and begins her own journey towards healing and empowerment.
The show co-stars Creator/PaulSparks, Creator/LouTaylorPucci, and Creator/DeirdreFriel. It also features a score by Isabella Summers of Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine.
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* TheEighties: Set in 1980s San Diego, and features aerobics instructionals, surfer dudes, and '80s pop galore.
* BourgeoisBohemian: Simone praises the bohemian, '60s-ish aesthetics and attitudes of her professor Danny and his wife Sheila.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title of season 1 begins with "Let's". Season 2 does the same but with "Don't", and season 3 with "Like".
* StepfordSmiler: On the surface, Sheila is a polite, if a little standoffish, housewife happily married to her academic husband. Inside, she's full of self-hatred and is viciously judging other people internally.
* VillainousGentrification: John Breem's developmental efforts in San Diego are called out for pricing out local business owners and destroying the coastline.
* WeightWoe: Sheila suffers from binge-eating disorder and obsessed with staying trim. She meticulously watches what she eats, calls herself fat and ugly in her interal monologue, and often puts other people down mentally for eating high-calorie foods or offering her food. During moments of stress, however, she'll gorge and then tell herself it'll be the last time.
[[caption-width-right:350:''"Do you really think you are pulling this whole thing off?"'']]
''Physical'' is an American dark comedy/drama series created by Creator/AnnieWeisman for Creator/AppleTVPlus. Its first season premiered in 2021; its third and final season premiered in 2023.
Creator/RoseByrne stars as Sheila Rubin, a repressed housewife in 1980s San Diego married to unsuccessful academic Danny (Creator/RoryScovel). Sheila spends her days going to ballet, watching her daughter, judging others in her internal monologue, and keeping her weight in check with a vicious eating disorder. But after she discovers the aerobics studio of Bunny Kazam (Creator/DellaSaba), Sheila becomes obsessed with the exercise and begins her own journey towards healing and empowerment.
The show co-stars Creator/PaulSparks, Creator/LouTaylorPucci, and Creator/DeirdreFriel. It also features a score by Isabella Summers of Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine.
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* TheEighties: Set in 1980s San Diego, and features aerobics instructionals, surfer dudes, and '80s pop galore.
* BourgeoisBohemian: Simone praises the bohemian, '60s-ish aesthetics and attitudes of her professor Danny and his wife Sheila.
* IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming: Every episode title of season 1 begins with "Let's". Season 2 does the same but with "Don't", and season 3 with "Like".
* StepfordSmiler: On the surface, Sheila is a polite, if a little standoffish, housewife happily married to her academic husband. Inside, she's full of self-hatred and is viciously judging other people internally.
* VillainousGentrification: John Breem's developmental efforts in San Diego are called out for pricing out local business owners and destroying the coastline.
* WeightWoe: Sheila suffers from binge-eating disorder and obsessed with staying trim. She meticulously watches what she eats, calls herself fat and ugly in her interal monologue, and often puts other people down mentally for eating high-calorie foods or offering her food. During moments of stress, however, she'll gorge and then tell herself it'll be the last time.
