This bombshell article and its editorial response mirrors an actual event in Lindy West's career that put her on the map as a writer. Annie titles her post "Hello, I'm Fat," goes to bed, and wakes up to find it has become a massive hit, while also leading Gabe to post a rebuttal focused on health issues and have him totally blow up at Annie for publishing the piece without authorization. After getting lost in a sea of self-love and acceptance at a plus-sized pool party, Annie arrives late to her office's forced fun bike ride, and her abrasive boss Gabe calls her lazy and sloppy because of her weight.Īn outraged Annie vents to her roommate about the lifetime of slights and judgement she has endured due to her weight, and decides to get her feelings out in an unauthorized blog post for her work. This confidence reaches a chaotic new height at the climactic end of the fourth episode. As the first season of Shrill progresses, Aidy Bryant's Annie becomes more and more confident in her body and her instincts and talent as a writer. Spoiler alert: This post contains spoilers from the first season of Shrill. And many of the events in the series are based on true experiences West had, most notably when she published her bombshell body positivity essay "Hello, I'm Fat." That article is central to Shrill's first season, and yes, the "Hello, I'm Fat" article from Shrill is real, and it is definitely worth a read for anyone watching the show. The show is adapted from author Lindy West's 2016 essay collection Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman, with Aidy Bryant's character of columnist Annie Easton based on West herself. Shrill provocatively dissects what it means to become self-aware the hard way, to go from wanting to be silent and invisible to earning a living defending the silenced in all caps.The dramatic ups and downs on Hulu's new series Shrill are more real than you might think. With inimitable good humor, vulnerability, and boundless charm, Lindy boldly shares how to survive in a world where not all stories are created equal and not all bodies are treated with equal respect, and how to weather hatred, loneliness, harassment, and loss-and walk away laughing. Coming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible-like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you-writer and humorist Lindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.įrom a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea.
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