While Annie is honestly just out there trying to live her life, society around her is constantly reacting to her size in a variety of ways. Annie struggles with a number of familiar issues: a condescending boss who constantly stifles her creativity, a man-child of a boyfriend who can’t commit, and the paradigm shift that comes with your parents getting sick and getting older.Īs a full-figured woman, Annie navigates these issues from a unique perspective, one that is often conspicuously absent in the media. Shrill is based on the eponymous memoir Shrill: Notes on a Loud Woman by Lindy West and stars SNL‘s Aidy Bryant as Annie, a young aspiring journalist. This shouldn’t be a radical concept, yet it is. Because S hrill, for the most part, doesn’t need to yell about the importance of body diversity outright the show lives its message just by letting Annie be herself. One of the beautiful things about this show is that it took four whole episodes to deliver such a direct message about body diversity. In the fourth episode of Hulu’s new comedy series Shrill, our main character Annie delivers a powerful monologue about the trials of living as a young woman with the audacity to be fat in a fatphobic society.
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