The first season is unabashedly about Annie deciding that she will no longer live a stunted half-life spent apologizing for her body - that she will take up as much space as she damn well pleases. The show's first season, which debuted in March 2019, felt like a road map of my own escape from a death of a thousand micro-aggressions: Annie tells off rude strangers online or on the street and calls out her mother for a lifetime of diet talk demands that the scruffily hunky dude who asks her to leave their trysts through the backdoor treat her like a real girlfriend and avenges herself against her size-biased boss, who says he's only 'concerned for her health,' by publishing a cri de Couer called 'Hello, I'm Fat,' and then quitting. Lindy West, whose memoir gives Shrill its name and its plump pumping fist of a heart, is a spiritual Sherpa for me and other aspiringly self-possessed fat women. The series will be available to stream on Hulu starting March 15.Resisting this narrative about how exactly fat women should be has been deeply lonely and profoundly liberating - sometimes, all at once. West's memoir covers everything, from her own 'accidental activism' to a 'never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls' and surviving 'in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect,' offering ample material for Bryant to explore in the forthcoming episodes. Annie is trying to start her career while juggling bad boyfriends, a sick parent, and a perfectionist boss.' We see Annie realize she has a topic she's excited to pursue in writing, watch her get ready to 'fuck shit up' and get turned down, and see the success that follows when Annie decides to follow through regardless (even if it does come with a fat-shaming troll).

The Elizabeth Banks- and Lorne Michaels-produced the body positive series (co-written by West, Bryant, and Alexandra Rushfield) was first announced in August, giving Bryant her first starring role after six years in the cast of Saturday Night Live.īryant plays Annie, described in the video description as 'a fat young woman who wants to change her life-but not her body.

Aidy Bryant takes on Lindy West's hilarious memoir Shrill in a new Hulu original series by the same name.

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