‘Shrill’ Trailer: ‘Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant Takes The Lead In Hulu Comedy
If I were ranking the currentSaturday Night Livecast members in terms of reliability,Aidy Bryantwould be in the upper echelon. She may not have many of the memorable, flashy characters that are often featured in sketches that go viral the next day, but she’s always there to deliver laughs and do the work to set up her fellow performers.
Now Bryant has scored a lead role in a new Hulu comedy series calledShrill, which is executive produced byElizabeth BanksandLorne Michaelsand based on a book by writerLindy West. The first season premieres next month, and you can watch the first trailer below.
Shrill Trailer
Bryant plays Annie, a fat woman who’s totally fine with the way she looks – it’s the other parts of her life that need some changing. She works as an assistant calendar editor for a needling boss (he refers to her as a “millennial dumpling”), her boyfriend is an inconsiderate jerk, and her parents still don’t understand how the Internet works. But when Annie goes to a “fat babe pool party” and writes about her experience there, she finds value in herself that she’s never felt before.
Bryant seems like a charming, relatable lead, and she seems to be working from strong material: if you’ve spent any time reading journalism online in the past decade, you’ve probably come acrossLindy West’s work. The author has become something of a feminist icon, and she’s written and spoken a lot about fat shaming over the years – a topic she’s fully embracing in this series.
“I felt like there could be a positive role model in this show for young women,” Elizabeth Banks said during arecentTCA presentation aboutShrill. “I really felt like having positive, normalizing representation of women’s reproductive rights on television would also be a really good idea.”
The series co-starsJulia Sweeney,Luka Jones,Lolly Adefope,Ian Owens, andJohn Cameron Mitchell(yes, the same guy who created and directedHedwig and the Angry Inch).
Here’s the official description:
From Executive Producers Lorne Michaels and Elizabeth Banks comes Shrill, a comedy series starring Aidy Bryant (Saturday Night Live) as Annie, a fat young woman who wants to change her life — but not her body. Annie is trying to start her career while juggling bad boyfriends, a sick parent, and a perfectionist boss.
Shrillwill premiere as part of this year’s South By Southwest Film Festival, and the six-episode first season will be streaming on Hulu beginning onMarch 15, 2019.
