Binge (2016)
November 4, 2025: "Angela, a Bulimic disaster, drunkenly enrolls in eating disorder rehab where she must juggle her failing pastry shop, an affair with her therapist, and a cast of bizarre food-abusers, all while trying not to do what she does best: vomit."

Okay, I LOVED the pilot, enjoyed the prequel, and then couldn't get through another episode for reasons I'll elaborate later on. Angela is a complete mess and I love her. The way her character is written resonates with me way more than any depiction of a meek, infantilized anorexic that you may see in other media. Her bulimia ruins her life and frustrates the people around her, and they say the sort of things that you shouldn't say to someone with an eating disorder. Anyone who has experienced it knows that the comments from your friends and family and whoever else just makes it worse a lot of the time. No one has a therapy speech for you, not everyone understands you, and sometimes they end up more angry than sympathetic at the way your eating disorder makes you act. One detail that stuck out to me as something I relate to are the sticky notes around Angela's apartment at the beginning of the prequel, which say things like "NO CARBS" and "NO EATING BEFORE 3", yet she's constantly breaking those rules she sets for herself.

Now here's where it all went wrong: The pilot and prequel were made within the same year of each other (I think?), then the show came back three years later as "Binge: Apocalypse" in 2020. I watched one out of the three apocalypse episodes, and it had a completely different feel than the previous episodes and way mostly about the beginning of the covid lockdown in March 2020. UGHHHHHH! I already force myself to forget that shit even happened, so the last thing I want to do is watch a show that takes me back to it. Based on what I saw (about half of the episode), most of it is filmed by the actors themselves on iPhones and webcams. I know this is most likely because they couldn't be bringing a whole crew around to different locations for filming, but I hate that it feels like I'm watching a vlog. It's just so upsettingly low effort. What really gets me is that this came almost FOUR YEARS after the first two episodes and was filmed in 2-3 months at most (lockdown started in March, episode was uploaded in May). This show is not that popular and went without three years of anything new, so there definitely wasn't a huge demand for new episodes, and it wasn't like they HAD to resort to this to keep the show going, because the show wasn't going at all.

Anyways, you can watch the pilot here and the prequel here, both of which I'll be watching on repeat and forgetting that the rest of it ever happened.