Eating disorders

Netflix’s queer teen romance “Heartstopper” is a life-affirming triumph. That’s why it’s so disappointing that it handles an important eating disorder storyline so superficially.

“Club Zero” aims to be a sci-fi satire, with a plot about a teacher who convinces her students to stop eating entirely—and one sequence that will get everyone talking.

Just be ready for it to come out the other end afterward.

According to a lawsuit filed last week, TikTok “groomed” a 14-year-old girl “to engage in excessive and harmful use” of the app “and in how to have an eating disorder.”

“I was very, very unhappy,” the actress said on the Call Her Daddy podcast while opening up about her past struggles with an easting disorder.

The discourse around Darren Aronofsky’s latest is deserved—but so is a celebration of its most powerful, unvarnished, human moment. Few films dare to be this vulnerable.

Headlines about infamously creepy Nickelodeon producers and Ariana Grande feuds distract from the child star’s powerful account of surviving abuse, trauma, and grief.