Dietland (TV series)

Dietland is an American dark comedy drama television series created by Marti Noxon, based on the 2015 novel of the same name by Sarai Walker. The straight-to-series 10-episode first season premiered on AMC with back to back episodes on June 4, 2018.
On September 20, 2018, AMC announced that the series had been cancelled. The series had persistently low ratings. The show averaged 203,000 viewers among the advertiser-coveted adults 18-48 demographics — with three days of DVR.

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Cast and characters

Main

Joy Nash as Alicia "Plum" Kettle
Tamara Tunie as Julia Smith
Robin Weigert as Verena Baptist
Rowena King as Cheryl Crane-Murphy
Adam Rothenberg as Dominic O'Shea
Erin Darke as Leeta Albridge
Ricardo Davila as Eladio
Tramell Tillman as Steven
Will Seefried as Ben
Julianna Margulies as Kitty Montgomery

Recurring

Melissa Navia as Moana
Debra Monk as Mrs Kettle
Dariush Kashani as Clive
Alanna Ubach as Marlowe Buchanan
Ami Sheth as Sana
Campbell Scott as Stanley Austen
Jen Ponton as Rubi
Kelly Hu as Abra Austen
Marc Blucas as Bobby
Mark Tallman as Jake
Mya Taylor as Barbara
Colby Minifie as Jasmine
Laura Darrell as Anna
Karen Eilbacher as Jillian

Reception

Critical response

On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the series has an approval rating of 83% based on 52 reviews, with an average rating of 6.8/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The well-acted Dietland delivers timely and engaging social commentary with enough humor and scathing wit to make up for an occasionally scattered narrative approach." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, assigned a score of 66 out of 100 based on 22 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".

Talk show

A late-night companion talk show was released after the episodes from Embassy Row, AMC Studios and Uncharted. It was created and hosted by Aisha Tyler from June 6 to June 30, 2018.