Physical is a three-season-long saga about a woman’s journey from being a self-sabotaging bulimic person to becoming a successful entrepreneur who could come to terms with herself and live her life on her terms.
Sheila Rubin is not that different from every woman that we see around us. She is a flawed person who does not like being married to Danny, a college professor turned environmental activist. Sheila comes across as a self-centered person in the beginning, whose inner voice constantly insults, humiliates, and practically dictates her life. Her inner voice, her bulimic episodes, and her extreme body issues have been a full-time part of her life since her teenage days. Sheila was a victim of molestation, which nobody in her family tried to help her deal with.
A grown-up Sheila is the mother of Maya, and she ends up spending most of their savings on booking rooms for...
Sheila Rubin is not that different from every woman that we see around us. She is a flawed person who does not like being married to Danny, a college professor turned environmental activist. Sheila comes across as a self-centered person in the beginning, whose inner voice constantly insults, humiliates, and practically dictates her life. Her inner voice, her bulimic episodes, and her extreme body issues have been a full-time part of her life since her teenage days. Sheila was a victim of molestation, which nobody in her family tried to help her deal with.
A grown-up Sheila is the mother of Maya, and she ends up spending most of their savings on booking rooms for...
- 9/29/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
The ninth episode of Physical Season 3 was solely focused on Sheila and Danny and the argument they were having for twenty-four hours at her home regarding Maya. The argument was supposed to make both understand how different they have become. Danny can hardly recognize Sheila anymore. She’s not the woman he knew. Sheila has also realized how much she has evolved since her divorce, and she does not intend to slow down. The episode ended with them sleeping with each other and her letting Danny know that he only knows her as much as anyone else does. Physical Season 3 finale will have Sheila move to Los Angeles with her daughter Maya. We would like to know how she adjusts to the new city.
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How does Sheila find Los Angeles?
Physical Episode 10 begins in the year 1986. It is implied that five years later, Sheila is now an established...
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How does Sheila find Los Angeles?
Physical Episode 10 begins in the year 1986. It is implied that five years later, Sheila is now an established...
- 9/27/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
The eighth episode of Physical Season 3 ended with John Breem and Sheila meeting one last time. John revealed that he will be moving to Mexico with his wife and kids to work on his marriage. Maria and John had hit a major roadblock in their marriage, which made them take this extreme decision. John and Sheila kissed one last time when they realized someone was at Sheila’s studio, only to find Fidelia and Danny getting physically intimate with each other, revealing their affair. Physical Episode 9 will have Sheila and Danny discuss the supposed affair the latter is having.
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What are Danny and Sheila fighting over?
Physical Episode 9 begins with Sheila preparing herself to inform her daughter about the big move she is planning to make. This is a revelation because, in the last episode, there was no indication of Sheila wanting to make a big move. Her...
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What are Danny and Sheila fighting over?
Physical Episode 9 begins with Sheila preparing herself to inform her daughter about the big move she is planning to make. This is a revelation because, in the last episode, there was no indication of Sheila wanting to make a big move. Her...
- 9/20/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
As Physical winds down, it looks like Sheila (Rose Byrne) and Danny's (Rory Scovel) relationship will come back into focus, whether they like it or not.
TV Fanatic scored an exclusive first look at the penultimate episode of the Apple TV+ comedy, and you can cut the tension with a knife.
The video starts promising enough with the pair talking about their happier times until Danny has the gall to tell Sheila how she felt back then.
Sheila rightfully points out that she's been bottling up her feelings her whole life and isn't ready to go back to that.
With a matter of words, it seems Danny's hopes for a reunion are dashed, and that's reiterated when Sheila walks off, telling him that they're, indeed, done.
It's an emotional clip that shows the distance between the pair because their relationship was never on that strong of a footing throughout the series.
TV Fanatic scored an exclusive first look at the penultimate episode of the Apple TV+ comedy, and you can cut the tension with a knife.
The video starts promising enough with the pair talking about their happier times until Danny has the gall to tell Sheila how she felt back then.
Sheila rightfully points out that she's been bottling up her feelings her whole life and isn't ready to go back to that.
With a matter of words, it seems Danny's hopes for a reunion are dashed, and that's reiterated when Sheila walks off, telling him that they're, indeed, done.
It's an emotional clip that shows the distance between the pair because their relationship was never on that strong of a footing throughout the series.
- 9/19/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The fourth episode of Physical Season 3 ends with Sheila having another bulimic spell. Kelly Kilmartin played her, and it was too late for Sheila to understand that. Sheila was surprised to see John at her doorstep. Physical Episode 5 will probably begin from the point at which the last episode ended. It will be interesting to watch what Sheila plans to do from here on.
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Sheila And John
John Breem arrives at Sheila’s hotel room. She finally started realizing the consequences of her one drunken night with Kelly Kilmartin. That woman turned out to be worse than the hallucinations that kept talking down to her. Sheila finally understands the mistakes she has made and is trying to salvage the situation. She lets John in, and he asks if she is doing fine. This is probably the first time someone has asked her this question. She is compelled to...
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Sheila And John
John Breem arrives at Sheila’s hotel room. She finally started realizing the consequences of her one drunken night with Kelly Kilmartin. That woman turned out to be worse than the hallucinations that kept talking down to her. Sheila finally understands the mistakes she has made and is trying to salvage the situation. She lets John in, and he asks if she is doing fine. This is probably the first time someone has asked her this question. She is compelled to...
- 8/23/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
The first episode of Physical Season 3 ended with Sheila finally getting a spot on television, which is her first step towards defeating Kelly Kilmartin, who seems to have become her nemesis, even without Kelly realizing a person called Sheila exists. Sheila’s inner voice has turned into a projection of Kelly, and her life has gone back to this entity demoralizing her constantly. Her inner voice is her biggest bane, and she is a long way from becoming better mentally.
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Greta, Sheila, and their competitors
Physical Episode 2 begins with Sheila preparing herself for her up-and-coming segment on the morning show of a local San Diego-based television channel. This is the kind of publicity she was looking for, and thanks to John Breem, she is closer to becoming a celebrity. Sheila has bigger plans for herself, and since aerobics is something that has changed her, she is keen on...
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Greta, Sheila, and their competitors
Physical Episode 2 begins with Sheila preparing herself for her up-and-coming segment on the morning show of a local San Diego-based television channel. This is the kind of publicity she was looking for, and thanks to John Breem, she is closer to becoming a celebrity. Sheila has bigger plans for herself, and since aerobics is something that has changed her, she is keen on...
- 8/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
The second season of Physical ended bizarrely. Sheila is all set to start her aerobics classes with Greta and Ernie and plans to expand on them. Danny and Sheila have finally come to terms with the divorce, but he has finally put her on the back foot by introducing her to sitcom actress Kelly Kilmartin. Knowing the body image issues that Sheila carries within herself, Danny does this to mentally affect her, knowing she would be bothered by it. Sheila heads to meet John Breem and implies that she wants to annihilate her competition. As the third season begins, it will be interesting to come across stories about women from 1980s America and how they trudged through many obstacles to achieve absolute independence.
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Sheila and Greta take over
Physical Season 3 jumps straight to the new aerobic classes that Sheila has begun, with Greta and Ernie being prime investors.
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Sheila and Greta take over
Physical Season 3 jumps straight to the new aerobic classes that Sheila has begun, with Greta and Ernie being prime investors.
- 8/2/2023
- by Smriti Kannan
- Film Fugitives
Apple TV+ has revealed the trailer for the third and final season of dark comedy series ‘Physical,’ starring and executive produced by Rose Byrne and created by Annie Weisman.
Set in the idyllic but fragile beach paradise of 1980s San Diego, the series follows Sheila Rubin (Byrne) as she transforms from a quietly tortured housewife to a dominant fitness entrepreneur.
In her journey, Sheila battled her way out of an unsatisfying marriage to Danny (Scovel), fostered a dangerous relationship with real-estate mogul John Breem (Sparks), and confronted the dark voices within her own mind that have shamed and suppressed her for so long. With the help of her loyal friend — and now business partner — Greta (Friel), Sheila has found confidence and inner strength through her work as a teacher and entrepreneur with Body by Sheila. In the third and concluding season of the series, Sheila finds her status challenged by...
Set in the idyllic but fragile beach paradise of 1980s San Diego, the series follows Sheila Rubin (Byrne) as she transforms from a quietly tortured housewife to a dominant fitness entrepreneur.
In her journey, Sheila battled her way out of an unsatisfying marriage to Danny (Scovel), fostered a dangerous relationship with real-estate mogul John Breem (Sparks), and confronted the dark voices within her own mind that have shamed and suppressed her for so long. With the help of her loyal friend — and now business partner — Greta (Friel), Sheila has found confidence and inner strength through her work as a teacher and entrepreneur with Body by Sheila. In the third and concluding season of the series, Sheila finds her status challenged by...
- 7/13/2023
- by Zehra Phelan
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Apple TV+ has revealed the trailer for the third and final season of dark comedy series “Physical,” starring and executive produced by Rose Byrne and created by Annie Weisman. Joining the all-star cast, including Rory Scovel, Dierdre Friel and Paul Sparks, is award-winning actress Zooey Deschanel in her return to scripted television. “Physical” will premiere on Wednesday, August 2, 2023 on Apple TV+ with the first two episodes of the ten-episode season, followed by one new episode weekly, every Wednesday through September 27. Set in the idyllic but fragile beach paradise of 1980s San Diego, “Physical” follows Sheila Rubin (Byrne) as she transforms from quietly tortured housewife to dominant fitness entrepreneur. In her journey, Sheila battled her way out of an unsatisfying marriage to Danny (Scovel), fostered a dangerous relationship with real-estate mogul John Breem (Sparks), and confronted the dark voices within her own mind that have shamed and suppressed her for so long.
- 7/13/2023
- by Hollywood Outbreak
- HollywoodOutbreak.com
The trailer for third and final season of Apple TV+’s Physical shows Sheila (Rose Byrne) has met her match in a popular celebrity exercise guru. The New Girl star Zooey Deschanel joins the series as Sheila’s new adversary, Kelli Kilmartin.
Season three also stars Rory Scovel as Danny, Dierdre Friel as Greta, and Paul Sparks as John Breem.
Physical‘s final season kicks off on August 2, 2023 with the release of the first two episodes. New episodes arrive on Wednesdays leading up to the series finale on September 27th.
Annie Weisman created the series and serves as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. Rose Byrne, Stephanie Laing, and Tomorrow Studios’ Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, and Alissa Bachner executive produce, with Laing directing.
Rose Byrne and Zooey Deschanel in Apple TV+’s ‘Physical’ season 3
The Season 3 Plot, Courtesy of Apple TV+:
Set in the idyllic but fragile beach paradise of 1980s San Diego,...
Season three also stars Rory Scovel as Danny, Dierdre Friel as Greta, and Paul Sparks as John Breem.
Physical‘s final season kicks off on August 2, 2023 with the release of the first two episodes. New episodes arrive on Wednesdays leading up to the series finale on September 27th.
Annie Weisman created the series and serves as writer, executive producer, and showrunner. Rose Byrne, Stephanie Laing, and Tomorrow Studios’ Marty Adelstein, Becky Clements, and Alissa Bachner executive produce, with Laing directing.
Rose Byrne and Zooey Deschanel in Apple TV+’s ‘Physical’ season 3
The Season 3 Plot, Courtesy of Apple TV+:
Set in the idyllic but fragile beach paradise of 1980s San Diego,...
- 7/12/2023
- by Rebecca Murray
- Showbiz Junkies
The end of Physical will be here before we know it.
Apple TV+ went public with the key art and trailer for Physical Season 3 on Wednesday, and we have plenty of questions.
The trailer welcomes Zooey Deschanel to the cast as Kelly Kilmartin, and it's clear from the get-go that Rose Byrne's Sheila is not destined to be BFFs with her -- far from it, actually.
"Set in the idyllic but fragile beach paradise of 1980s San Diego, Physical follows Sheila Rubin (Byrne) as she transforms from quietly tortured housewife to dominant fitness entrepreneur," the logline for the final season teases.
"In her journey, Sheila battled her way out of an unsatisfying marriage to Danny, fostered a dangerous relationship with real-estate mogul John Breem, and confronted the dark voices within her own mind that have shamed and suppressed her for so long," Apple TV+ says of the show.
"With...
Apple TV+ went public with the key art and trailer for Physical Season 3 on Wednesday, and we have plenty of questions.
The trailer welcomes Zooey Deschanel to the cast as Kelly Kilmartin, and it's clear from the get-go that Rose Byrne's Sheila is not destined to be BFFs with her -- far from it, actually.
"Set in the idyllic but fragile beach paradise of 1980s San Diego, Physical follows Sheila Rubin (Byrne) as she transforms from quietly tortured housewife to dominant fitness entrepreneur," the logline for the final season teases.
"In her journey, Sheila battled her way out of an unsatisfying marriage to Danny, fostered a dangerous relationship with real-estate mogul John Breem, and confronted the dark voices within her own mind that have shamed and suppressed her for so long," Apple TV+ says of the show.
"With...
- 7/12/2023
- by Paul Dailly
- TVfanatic
The title of Physical‘s Season 2 finale, “Don’t You Say It’s Over,” could easily double as a renewal rallying cry — although it doesn’t appear as if Apple TV+ will need to be persuaded to bring the Rose Byrne dramedy back for a third season.
Speaking to TVLine in the wake of Physical‘s Season 2 closer (which dropped Friday on the streamer), series creator/showrunner Annie Weisman says the decision to end the finale on a cliffhanger-y note was not made recklessly.
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Speaking to TVLine in the wake of Physical‘s Season 2 closer (which dropped Friday on the streamer), series creator/showrunner Annie Weisman says the decision to end the finale on a cliffhanger-y note was not made recklessly.
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- 8/6/2022
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
It's over for Danny and Sheila. In the Physical season two finale, which hits Apple TV+ Aug. 5, the couple decides it's time to officially go their separate ways after Danny (Rory Scovel) finally finds out about Sheila's (Rose Byrne) affair with John Breem (Paul Sparks). Danny and Sheila previously made a concerted effort to making things work for the sake of their daughter, but Danny can't move past Sheila's betrayal. In a sneak peek of the episode, Danny asks that he gets 50 percent of Sheila's business in the divorce. This idea makes Sheila laugh, because he did so little to help her become a businesswoman. So, she tells him, "Over my dead body." Sheila's...
- 8/4/2022
- E! Online
Last year, Apple TV+ debuted the first season of the Rose Byrne-starring drama, “Physical,” about San Diego mother Sheila Rubin (Byrne) and her desire to build an aerobics empire in the 1980s. The series had many of ’80s-set show staples, including a colorful wardrobe. Alongside that, it was a personal story for series creator Annie Weisman, who felt that San Diego and the ’80s were often portrayed as idyllic places which she wanted to subvert. The first season received mixed reviews from critics, with several pointing out that Sheila’s voice-over narration, coupled with her character’s eating disorder, were anxiety-inducing and indulging in disordered eating stereotypes.
Season 2 feels like a course correction with a desire to embrace the “autonomy” Weisman found interesting about women and aerobics in the 1980s. Sheila is working to tailor herself into a lifestyle brand, but everyone else in her orbit is working on themselves,...
Season 2 feels like a course correction with a desire to embrace the “autonomy” Weisman found interesting about women and aerobics in the 1980s. Sheila is working to tailor herself into a lifestyle brand, but everyone else in her orbit is working on themselves,...
- 6/3/2022
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
Rose Byrne and Murray Bartlett (The White Lotus) appear poised to join forces when Physical returns with its second season on Friday, June 3.
The Apple TV+ comedy’s 10-episode sophomore season finds Byrne’s Sheila Rubin — having successfully launched her first fitness video — potentially teaming up with Bartlett’s newly-introduced Vincent “Vinnie” Green, a charismatic fitness instructor, weight-loss guru and “pioneer of the late-night infomercial.”
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The Apple TV+ comedy’s 10-episode sophomore season finds Byrne’s Sheila Rubin — having successfully launched her first fitness video — potentially teaming up with Bartlett’s newly-introduced Vincent “Vinnie” Green, a charismatic fitness instructor, weight-loss guru and “pioneer of the late-night infomercial.”
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- 5/11/2022
- by Michael Ausiello
- TVLine.com
Start your stretching now, because Apple TV+ has set a Season 2 premiere date for Physical, its dark, 1980s-set comedy created by showrunner Annie Weisman and starring/executive-produced by Rose Byrne.
Physical‘s 10-episode second season will premiere Friday, June 3 with the first episode, followed by a new release every Friday. (The series’ freshman run spanned the same summertime time frame in 2021; TVLine readers gave it an average grade of “A-.”)
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Physical‘s 10-episode second season will premiere Friday, June 3 with the first episode, followed by a new release every Friday. (The series’ freshman run spanned the same summertime time frame in 2021; TVLine readers gave it an average grade of “A-.”)
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- 4/5/2022
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Warning: The following podcast contains spoilers from the season one finale of AppleTV+’s dramedy series Physical, “Let’s Get Together”
Today we talk with the creator and EP of Physical, Annie Weisman, as we breakdown the season one finale of Physical, which AppleTV+ recently gave a second season to yesterday. Even though Sheila’s (Rose Byrne) husband Danny (Rory Scovel) lost the local San Diego election, she is clearly poised to blast off as a 1980s aerobics queen-pin with a potential video distribution contract, leaving her associates, surfer Tyler (Lou Taylor Pucci) and mall exercise guru Bunny (Della Saba) in the dust. Weisman always knew the ending would involve Danny losing, and Shelia with one foot out the door. However, the provocative final scene where Sheila finds herself across the mall, lustfully eye-to-eye, with Mormon real estate mogul John Breem (Paul Sparks) –a guy who understands her ambition, drive...
Today we talk with the creator and EP of Physical, Annie Weisman, as we breakdown the season one finale of Physical, which AppleTV+ recently gave a second season to yesterday. Even though Sheila’s (Rose Byrne) husband Danny (Rory Scovel) lost the local San Diego election, she is clearly poised to blast off as a 1980s aerobics queen-pin with a potential video distribution contract, leaving her associates, surfer Tyler (Lou Taylor Pucci) and mall exercise guru Bunny (Della Saba) in the dust. Weisman always knew the ending would involve Danny losing, and Shelia with one foot out the door. However, the provocative final scene where Sheila finds herself across the mall, lustfully eye-to-eye, with Mormon real estate mogul John Breem (Paul Sparks) –a guy who understands her ambition, drive...
- 8/6/2021
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
The following contains spoilers from the Physical Season 1 finale.
As Season 1 of Apple TV+’s (already-renewed) Physical came to a close, the hits kept on coming for housewife-turned-wannabe aerobics queen Sheila Rubin.
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The finale started out positive enough for Sheila, who with Bunny led a rousing demo of their aerobics class at the mall’s center court, while Danny and Greta slipped campaign literature into each eagerly purchased VHS tape.
As Season 1 of Apple TV+’s (already-renewed) Physical came to a close, the hits kept on coming for housewife-turned-wannabe aerobics queen Sheila Rubin.
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The finale started out positive enough for Sheila, who with Bunny led a rousing demo of their aerobics class at the mall’s center court, while Danny and Greta slipped campaign literature into each eagerly purchased VHS tape.
- 8/6/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Apple TV+ has signed up for another round of Sheila Rubin’s rousing aerobics classes, by renewing the darkly comedic, 1980s-set Physical for a second season.
TVLine’s hand-crafted Streaming Renewal Scorecard has thusly been updated.
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Created by Annie Weisman (Suburgatory, Desperate Housewives), Physical stars Rose Byrne (Damages) as the aforementioned Sheila, a housewife in 1980s San Diego who juggles her under-appreciated oversight of husband Danny’s (Superstore‘s Rory Scovel) bid for state assembly with her own,...
TVLine’s hand-crafted Streaming Renewal Scorecard has thusly been updated.
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Created by Annie Weisman (Suburgatory, Desperate Housewives), Physical stars Rose Byrne (Damages) as the aforementioned Sheila, a housewife in 1980s San Diego who juggles her under-appreciated oversight of husband Danny’s (Superstore‘s Rory Scovel) bid for state assembly with her own,...
- 8/4/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
Aerobics enthusiast Sheila Rubin this week gets Physical on behalf of husband Danny’s political campaign. But will her splashy mall stunt bring (a sweaty) heat to his campaign… or douse any spark it had left?
The 1980s-set Apple TV+ dramedy opens its finale this Friday with Sheila and Bunny (played by Rose Byrne and Della Saba) leading a rousing, well-attended group aerobics class at the local mall’s center court, all as a supportive Greta (Dierdre Friel), a frankly impressed Danny (Rory Scovel) and a… something… John Breem (Paul Sparks) all look on from the sidelines.
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The 1980s-set Apple TV+ dramedy opens its finale this Friday with Sheila and Bunny (played by Rose Byrne and Della Saba) leading a rousing, well-attended group aerobics class at the local mall’s center court, all as a supportive Greta (Dierdre Friel), a frankly impressed Danny (Rory Scovel) and a… something… John Breem (Paul Sparks) all look on from the sidelines.
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- 8/4/2021
- by Matt Webb Mitovich
- TVLine.com
The 1980s are a decade that’s been mythologized and romanticized to death, usually by men. That alone sets Annie Weisman’s “Physical” apart, and it is more than enough to recommend watching it. But what Weisman’s story does isn’t just examine the way women were spending a decade usually boiled down to big hair and cocaine — although that’s well-represented in the series. It also looks at how the oft-perceived frivolous things women were doing in the era often led to more power than anyone could realize.
Sheila Rubin (Rose Byrne) is an ’80s woman trying to have it all: perfect home, perfect husband, and perfect body. Unfortunately, all three are in various states of falling apart, or at least they are by Sheila’s standards. Her husband, Danny (Rory Scovel) has just lost his job as a professor and has aspirations to join local government. But that takes money,...
Sheila Rubin (Rose Byrne) is an ’80s woman trying to have it all: perfect home, perfect husband, and perfect body. Unfortunately, all three are in various states of falling apart, or at least they are by Sheila’s standards. Her husband, Danny (Rory Scovel) has just lost his job as a professor and has aspirations to join local government. But that takes money,...
- 6/18/2021
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
The new Apple TV+ series Physical opens with verve. It is 1986, and we are in the dressing room of a TV studio where a woman — who has her back to us for this whole opening sequence, but whom we’ll soon get to know as Sheila Rubin (Rose Byrne) — sits quietly in front of the makeup mirror, psyching herself up with Heart’s “Straight On” playing on her Walkman. She then (in a mostly unbroken take) struts out to the stage to record the aerobics workout show she apparently hosts.
- 6/15/2021
- by Alan Sepinwall
- Rollingstone.com
Apple TV+ has rounded out the ensemble cast for its new dramedy Physical. Paul Sparks, Rory Scovel, Lou Taylor Pucci, Della Saba, Dierdre Friel and Ashley Liao (Fuller House) join Rose Byrne in the series from Almost Family creator Annie Weisman, Dirty John showrunner Alexandra Cunningham and Tomorrow Studios.
Written by Weisman, who also will serve as showrunner, Physical is set in a 1980s Southern California beach community. It follows Sheila (Byrne), a woman struggling in her life as a quietly tortured housewife who finds an unconventional path to power through an unlikely source: the world of aerobics.
Sparks will play John Breem, a conservative real estate developer convinced the mall will save the American family.
Scovel portrays Danny, Sheila’s husband, a brilliant and disagreeable...
Written by Weisman, who also will serve as showrunner, Physical is set in a 1980s Southern California beach community. It follows Sheila (Byrne), a woman struggling in her life as a quietly tortured housewife who finds an unconventional path to power through an unlikely source: the world of aerobics.
Sparks will play John Breem, a conservative real estate developer convinced the mall will save the American family.
Scovel portrays Danny, Sheila’s husband, a brilliant and disagreeable...
- 12/9/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
The upcoming Apple dramedy series “Physical” is rounding out its cast.
In addition to previously announced series lead Rose Byrne, the cast of the show will also include Paul Sparks, Rory Scovel, Loy Taylor Pucci, Della Saba, Dierdre Friel, Ashley Liao.
“Physical” follows Sheila (Byrne), a woman struggling in her life as a quietly tortured housewife in a 1980s Southern California beach community. She finds herself on an unconventional path to power when she discovers the world of aerobics.
Sparks will star as John Breem, a conservative real estate developer convinced the mall will save the American family. Sparks is repped by Gersh and One Entertainment.
Scovel will star as Danny, Sheila’s husband, a brilliant and disagreeable Berkeley radical taking a long shot run at mainstream politics. Scovel is repped by UTA, Mosaic, and Schreck Rose.
Pucci will play Tyler, a tender-hearted surfer and aspiring filmmaker. Pucci is repped...
In addition to previously announced series lead Rose Byrne, the cast of the show will also include Paul Sparks, Rory Scovel, Loy Taylor Pucci, Della Saba, Dierdre Friel, Ashley Liao.
“Physical” follows Sheila (Byrne), a woman struggling in her life as a quietly tortured housewife in a 1980s Southern California beach community. She finds herself on an unconventional path to power when she discovers the world of aerobics.
Sparks will star as John Breem, a conservative real estate developer convinced the mall will save the American family. Sparks is repped by Gersh and One Entertainment.
Scovel will star as Danny, Sheila’s husband, a brilliant and disagreeable Berkeley radical taking a long shot run at mainstream politics. Scovel is repped by UTA, Mosaic, and Schreck Rose.
Pucci will play Tyler, a tender-hearted surfer and aspiring filmmaker. Pucci is repped...
- 12/9/2020
- by Joe Otterson
- Variety Film + TV
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