It stars Rose Byrne as a woman whose husband is running for public office in San Diego but who has aspirations of her own to produce an aerobics exercise tape for the newly emerging home video market.
For one thing, her husband Danny has just been let go from his job as a college professor, news that Sheila learns as their young daughter is banging annoyingly on some pots and pans.
BIANCULLI: Sheila also has a possible new plan for her life – as the star of an aerobics exercise tape made for the newly popular home video market.
BIANCULLI: One of the things that makes “Physical” work so well as it progresses is that all the other characters have inner demons also.
The first season stays in 1981, but Rose Byrne is so good in this role that I hope the series gets renewed so we can watch her work her way all through the ’80s.
On Monday’s show, Terry talks with Desus and Mero, hosts of their own Showtime comedy series in which they riff on politics, pop culture, viral videos, sports and the Bronx, where they each grew up in the ’80s and ’90s.
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