On the small screen, which is saturated with more original content than ever before Netflix alone has set its goal at about original series and films in , shows have to work harder to stand out—they have to be a little strange or shocking.
Even for Noxon, the pace at which things are changing in television can feel disorienting. She says she looks at Dietland sometimes and thinks, Will this be too tame by the time it airs?
That seems unlikely. When Noxon wrote menopause plots into the show, the network discouraged her from using the word or spending too much time on the subject. She wrote the plots anyway. Dietland , by contrast, is a grenade with the pin pulled out. About feeling hopelessly inadequate. About looking at the bodies of women in Daisy Chain or in online pornography, and feeling grotesque by comparison.
These are impulses Noxon understands. From age 14 through college, she suffered from such severe anorexia that at one point she weighed 69 pounds. Noxon was born and raised in Los Angeles. Her father was a documentary filmmaker for National Geographic, and her maternal grandfather was one of the first professors to teach film studies.
Later in life, her mother was diagnosed with bipolar disorder. The film is filled with scenes so outlandish, Noxon could only have taken them from her own life. Noxon got sober when she was 24 and spent the next few years languishing on the fringes of the entertainment industry. She waitressed during this time, and became friendly with a regular customer, the producer and director Rick Rosenthal.
One day, after they had a conversation about a script he had been reading over lunch, he invited her to come to his office and pitch him some ideas. He soon hired her as a development executive, before she even knew what that title meant. Living at Oakes had a significant impact on her as well. My upbringing was focused, particularly with my mom, on activism and community engagement. Being at Oakes helped me to focus on my career goals.
During the next few years, she worked her way up, eventually becoming a development executive. From there, her writing and producing star continued to rise, garnering her more and more invaluable experience along the way. During this time, she also ran into the creator of the huge hit series Mad Men , Matthew Weiner, who asked her to work with him on the show. I was hospitalized. I nearly died. But finally, with a lot of help, I got better.
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