Abusing its status as satire, it doesn’t work hard enough either to generate real laughs or to coherently dramatize the serious issues - fulfillment, control, body image, the slow fade of idealism - around which it jury-rigs its story. “Physical” is in that mode, but it’s a distinctly flat and unfocused example. She’s profoundly unhappy, and one consequence of that is an expensive eating disorder that provides the show with a recurring dark-comic motif: Sheila picking up three fast-food burgers and checking into a motel room where she can take off her clothes and binge and purge in peace.Īnnie Weisman, the show’s creator, has worked on stylized, archly self-conscious sitcoms and dramedies like “Suburgatory” and “Desperate Housewives,” which mix light and dark comedy in a distinctly 21st-century blend you could call sarcastic realism. A decade or more past her days as a Berkeley radical, Sheila is living in conservative San Diego during the first Reagan administration, married to a chauvinistic loser and raising a screechy young daughter. Which counts as the first among the many fish-in-a-barrel ironies of “Physical” because Byrne’s character, Sheila Rubin, sees herself as fat and ugly, a false perception she shares with us repeatedly in a running interior monologue. It’s as if the camera were asking us, what problems could a woman this attractive possibly have? This is hard not to do if you watch the 10 half-hour episodes because the show’s go-to shot is a close-up of Byrne: sculpted features, big Pre-Raphaelite eyes, enormous halo of permed curls.
COMEDIC MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN FOOD CRITIC SERIES
She shouldn't have tried my FIRST PIE! Maybe I should've used a recipe.Let’s take permission from the title of the new Apple TV+ series “Physical” and note the physical appearance of its star, Rose Byrne. (The food critic pulls off the cook's hat and spits the pie into it)ĬOOK: I TOLD her I wasn't experienced. (choking) so. (making disgusted faces), delicious - OH GOD! (Reluctantly the food critic takes a bite and starts to gag.)įOOD CRITIC: It's. (The cook shoves the pie-pan into the small toaster-oven, and almost immediately pulls out a new pie.) (The cook goes to put the pie-pan into the toaster-oven.)įOOD CRITIC: Wait! Aren't you going to add sugar?įOOD CRITIC: Because if you were experienced, you'd know that. (The cook dumps milk into the bowl and pours the mix into a pie pan) He/she hands the bag to the food critic)ĬOOK: Like all the EXPERIENCED say, there's no chance of a good pie without dairy!
COMEDIC MONOLOGUES FOR WOMEN FOOD CRITIC FULL
(The cook drops a full loaf of bread into the mix. (The cook drops the eggs in the mix, shells and all.)ĬOOK: They give it that DELICIOUS crunchy texture.ĬOOK: Yep! Oooh, this is my favorite part!įOOD CRITIC: The part where you make it taste good? have you ever made a pie before?ĬOOK: EGGS next! This is gonna taste gooood!įOOD CRITIC: Oh, so, now, we're doing the eggs, butter, flour, sugar combination?įOOD CRITIC: I'm starting to doubt the "experienced" part of this.ĬOOK: Oh, don't worry. A garbage can is next to the food critic.)įOOD CRITIC: Are you SURE you're experienced?ĬOOK: Oh, yes, how do you work this stupid thing?ĬOOK: This pie needs to be as light as a garden salad, soooo,ĬOOK: Oh, THAT'S what you call this green rabbit treat.įOOD CRITIC: Yeah. There is also a cheese grater, eggs, lettuce, chalk, bread, and milk on the table. (The cook takes out a big bowl and a spoon.
Food Critic - must be able to keep a straight face during jokes.įOOD CRITIC: Hello, what will I be tasting? Cook - a funny, inexperienced baker who has absolutely no idea what he/she is doing.
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