Can a show be subversive and funny too? “Dietland” (9 p.m., AMC, TV-14) is an adaptation of Sarai Walker’s 2015 novel, a strange, darkly comedic odyssey from self-loathing to rebellion and self-discovery.
Joy Nash (“The Mindy Project”) stars as lead Plum Kettle, an overweight and thoroughly miserable woman obsessed with eating, not eating, attending weight-focused group therapy and anticipating her gastric bypass surgery. Her life and the first 15 minutes of “Dietland” are rather dreary.
Curiously, Plum’s one true talent and only joy is baking, a gift she learned from her grandmother and now shares with her best friend, Steven, the proprietor of a coffee shop that’s one of the only places she goes when not working from home or fretting about food.
