Round 1 Match 124: Elizabeth Harlander (Frankenstein 2025) vs Dixie Sinclair (Insatiable)

Elizabeth Harlander (costumes by Kate Hawley)

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Dixie Sinclair (costumes by Amy Parris)

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Asian and Nerdy: Dixie Sinclair is really ignorant. She doesn’t even see herself as Asian, identifying as “adopted” instead. Henry is smart, but doesn’t act like the typical nerd at all, being revealed to be a stripper of all things.

All Asians Know Martial Arts: Henry practices caopeira, but only uses it for dancing. Patty is the one who ends up using it for combat.

All Girls Want Bad Boys: Initially Patty’s romance with Christian is this... until she finds out he is actually bad, as in, kidnapper and potential murderer levels of bad, and tries to manipulate her into keeping a demon in her body because it’s “theirs” (a strange metaphor for pregnancy, works with the earlier episode wherein Patty thinks she’s pregnant but is revealed to have a teratoma).

Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Rather than the stereotypical person with ADD who can’t focus on anything to save their life, Dixie has self-described over-focused ADD. She compares it to a dog with a bone- never lets go.

Double Standard: Rape, Female on Male: 100% subverted with Regina and Brick. While Brick doesn’t consider himself to be a victim, his parents do and are horrified upon finding out she slept with him, and ends up getting her arrested.

Females Are More Innocent: The show has an equal female to male villain ratio. Regina Sinclair is the Card-Carrying Villain type which is usually found in male characters.

First Girl Wins: Given the fact that the second season ended with Magnolia and Brick together, maybe not.

Happily Adopted: More like happily kidnapped in Dixie’s case.

Jerk Jock: Brick is quite nice by Insatiable standards. Even his asshole moments pale in comparison to other characters in the series.

Never a Self-Made Woman: Nearly all women in the series who are in powerful positions got there 100% by themselves.

No Bisexuals: Bob A describes himself as bisexual (and is quite confused as to why Bob B doesn’t see himself as one).

SLY COOPER OC DOODLES BECAUSE 2020 IS THE YEAR OF NO CRINGE AND I STILL THINK ABOUT IT ONCE A DAY. AND THIS IS ONLY PART 1

Summary

A disgraced, dissatisfied civil lawyer-turned-beauty pageant coach takes on a vengeful, bullied teenager as his client and has no idea what he's about to unleash upon the world.

Source: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6487482/

Thoughts

When people criticised season 1, I thought Insatiable was not as intolerable as people were describing it to be. In fact, I enjoyed season 1 despite all its stupidity. Which was why I had expectations for season 2, especially when this new season took more than a year to be released. Needless to say, I was utterly disappointed by season 2.

Insatiable was initially a black comedy and I enjoyed the dark humour but in season 2, this show just went down a completely different path. Yes, it was still dark or got even darker because of the amount of murders. And the stupidity was definitely still present which only made things worse for season 2. But you know what is missing? The comedy bit. I do not remember laughing in any of the ten episodes. I cannot even begin to explain how much I disliked Insatiable season 2.

Plot

One main reason this season went downhill was the fact that this season had too much going on at once, while not having anything going at the same time. It is a big fat plot-mess. I know, what I just said was confusing and contradicting. Let’s put it this way, Insatiable season 2 has too many small plots but none working together with the main plot.

I appreciated the writers for shedding more light on Patty’s binge eating disorder. Also other topics such as Bob’s suicidal tendencies, Magnolia’s amnesia because of drug abuse or trauma, and last but not least, the cluelessness one can suffer from after high school (mainly Brick’s story). Coming from someone who can be quite clueless on what she wants to do sometimes, I understand what Brick felt or went through. Unfortunately, all that goodness went down the drain the second the writers decided to up the kill count and the number of cover ups that came with it.

Like I said, this season was a huge mess.

Cast (characters, character development and cast’s acting, etc.)

I have so much criticism in this section. Let’s begin with Patty Bladell. I love Debby Ryan, I think her portrayal as Patty was a little cringe-y at times but I still love her. Though, I cannot say the same about her character, Patty. During season 1, I thought Patty was okay but her character development in season 2 was so shitty. I did not like her killings at all, and I did not like that she kept coming up with shitty excuses for them. Apart from the gangsters/drug dealers, there were better ways to deal with Patty’s victims rather than murder. So yes, whatever excuses she came up with were bullshit to me.

I admit, Bob Armstrong pissed me off during the first half of season 2. However, he redeemed himself later on. Dallas Roberts did a wonderful job as Bob and I am glad at least his character did not go spiral down into nothing like Patty. Although...Bob and Angie is a just no-no. When they kissed, I thought it felt so forced like the show could go on without that part happening.

What I wanted was for Coralee and Bob to work out. Or at least not have that arch nemesis relationship they suddenly developed in season 2. But I can also see why Coralee’s anger can be justified. What Bob did to Coralee got him what he deserved. Even after the whole ordeal, Coralee still cared about Bob and that is obvious, especially when the fainting part came in. Just saying, I’m referring to Bob Armstrong here, not Bob Barnard.

Which brings me to Bob Barnard. He is a whole lot of mess in season 2. His scenes were completely irrelevant. I do not know why is he in season 2 at all. Really. Take out his parts, nothing much changes in season 2.

The one person who truly disappointed me in season 2 was Brick. I did not like how he treated Patty even though she was not so caring to him either. And the fact that he ran back to Magnolia after he got dumped by Patty? Why did Magnolia just get back together with Brick like that? Magnolia can do better than Brick.

Lastly, Dixie’s scenes were surprisingly pleasant. One reason being she was less annoying and vindictive in season 2. I do not understand why was it necessary to start a whole new story with her biological family and whatnot though, but at least that brought in Alex Landi’s Henry right?

Conclusion

Writing this review just got me feeling more irritated with season 2. I am ending the review here by, once more, saying Insatiable season 2 was a big disappointment.

Rating: D

- at least 5 LGBTQ characters

- fairly diverse cast

- demons

- exorcisms

- beauty pageants 

- a pedophile/r*pist WHO GOES TO JAIL LIKE EZRA SHOULD HAVE IN PLL

- kidnappings and failed kidnappings

- wiener tacos

- a moronic mother/daughter duo who somehow pull off so many schemes even though they have about 7 brain cells between the two of them

- 2 guys who seem like fuqbois but are actual sweethearts

- laugh out loud idiotic characters 

- a main character who may or may not be the villain

- a show that shows, through over-the-top drama and comedy, that just because you’re pretty on the outside doesn’t mean you’re pretty on the inside

Dixie: i'm not Asian, i'm adopted!