Tropes Insatiable (Netflix) subverted
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).
Hollywood Autism: Rather than be an Insufferable Genius, Dixie manages to be... very dumb.










