Picks and Pans Review: Jillian on the Loose

By Tom Gliatto, JASON LYNCH, CHARLOTTE TRIGGS

UPDATED 06/07/2010 at 01:00 AM EDT • Originally published 06/07/2010 at 01:00 AM EDT

Biggest Loser coach Jillian Michaels is a formidable personality: She looks like Glee's Lea Michele but comes off like Jane Lynch's Sue Sylvester. On the June 1 premiere of her NBC series Losing It with Jillian, she spends a week with a dangerously obese family. When the winded mother says she's trying to get with the routine, Jillian yells, "Trying is planning to fail!" It is? The show is well executed, if you can stomach the pained psychodrama.