The heroine in question is Annie ( Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant), and she is careful about being quiet and gentle and warm, about never doing anything that might be described as “shrill.” She’s fat, and she has no desire to be on the receiving end of the special sort of hatred reserved for fat women when they get loud and angry, or when they appear confident. Against the warm grays of Shrill’s color palette, our heroine’s candy-striped pink dresses glow like scoops of sorbet. An abortion is over and done with in a single nervous, intimate montage. In this world, a dinner at a strip club becomes a low-key conversation over hushed music about the importance of grooming and how good the shrimp is. It’s a quiet, gentle show, suffused with a kind of tender restraint. Shrill, the new Hulu series based on the 2016 memoir by Lindy West, is anything but shrill.
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