![]() And that’s even after she takes the morning after pill, something that she learns - too late, obviously - doesn’t work on women over 175 pounds. In the first episode of Shrill, Annie finds out she is pregnant by her casual, buffoonish bedfellow, Ryan (Luca Jones). In Annie’s case, as someone who has been habitually body-shamed by people for being a fat woman, hers is a tale of undoing the damage of mistreatment by finding out she has a lot to say.Īnd she can say it loudly, with force and humor, without asking for permission. ![]() Then, the impetus is on ourselves to build on - or, in some cases - undo what we’ve learned. It’s a straight-forward premise with a subversive feminist message: Before we can teach people how to treat us, we are taught by society how we can expect to be treated. Hulu’s Shrill, based on the memoir of writer and comedian Lindy West, is a story about a woman named Annie (Aidy Bryant) becoming self-empowered after living most of her life with debilitating low self-esteem. ![]()
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