She gets up and travels a series of hallways, never showing us her face, until she arrives in a large room where someone says “Places, everyone.” This is the aerobics goddess shooting a video, clearly the master of all she surveys.
Five years earlier, there’s a lot going on in Sheila’s life, much of it miserable.
She was nominated for both an Emmy and a Golden Globe for her portrayal of “Ellen Parsons”— a ruthless lawyer on the critically-acclaimed law drama “Damages.” There’s also her role as Helen Harris III in 2011’s ensemble comedy Bridesmaids.
There is some thoughtful exploration here of hunger both literal and figurative, and how Sheila’s hatred of her own hunger relates to her doomed attempts to deny that she wants to be powerful.
Based on the pacing of the first season, there would seem to be at least four or five seasons of runway between where we are now and 1986 Sheila shooting her video.
Physical wants to take on not only the culture of diet and aerobics that roared to life as the ’70s became the ’80s, but also a kind of yuppie-adjacent California liberalism in the early days of Ronald Reagan’s presidency.
But why is any significant time spent on Danny soliciting campaign contributions? We know where we’re going, and we are here for Sheila.