Annie Easton, the funny, forthright, plus-sized writer played by
SNL‘s Aidy Bryant on the Hulu comedy
Shrill (★★★★☆), ended season two of the series on a high note. Having established herself as the star writer at Portland alt-paper
The Weekly Thorn, as well as establishing healthier boundaries with her doting mom and dad, she closed out a productive period by rightly dumping her sweet but incredibly clueless boyfriend and office copy-room fuck-buddy, Ryan (Luka Jones).
Picking up two months after Annie let Ryan go, season three finds her reveling in the single life. “I eat men,” she declares. Of course, men bite back, and the series, based on humorist Lindy West’s novel
This dark comedy from Marc Cherry, the creator of
Desperate Housewives is led by Ginnifer Goodwin, Lucy Liu and Kirby Howell-Baptiste. They play three women across three different decades, who all live in the same house in Pasadena, California and who (as the title would suggest) commit murder. We meet Beth Ann Stanton (Ginnifer Goodwin) in 1963, Simone Grove (Lucy Liu), onto her third marriage in 1984, and Taylor Harding (Kirby Howell-Baptiste), who’s in an open marriage in 2019. Each era is represented with exceptional colour, design and style, there are twists and turns aplenty and wonderful performances from the cast. But the main question is, do they get away with murder?
Portland-filmed ‘Shrill’ brings Aidy Bryant and the cast back for an unsettled final season
Updated May 05, 2021;
Posted May 05, 2021
Annie (Aidy Bryant) and Nick (Anthony Oberbeck) in a scene from the Portland-filmed Shrill Season 3. (Photo: Allyson Riggs/Hulu)
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When “Shrill” premiered on Hulu in March 2019, the show felt like another example of a comedy filmed in Portland that both reflected and advanced the national image of the Rose City as a comfy haven for unconventional, creative types. Like “Portlandia” before it, “Shrill” starred a “Saturday Night Live” veteran, Aidy Bryant, who led a diverse cast in a show that was too unique to fit snugly into the usual TV boxes.
11 TV Series You Should Binge-Watch This May
Pose,
The Girlfriend Experience,
In Treatment, and more Fresh titles you should catch up on before enjoying a new season coming this month.
Summer 2021 is right around the corner, and that can only mean one thing: summer TV is, too! While you may not be spending as much time at seasonal soirées or other public gatherings this summer, now over a year into the pandemic, TV production has adapted and picked back up nearly full steam ahead. Now we’ve got new installments of
Pose,
Shrill,
High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, and more to show for it. Time to get to watching!
Flipping the script on fat in comedy
Geoff Edgers, The Washington Post
May 4, 2021
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1of6 Saturday Night Live mainstay and Shrill star Aidy Bryant. The final season of Shrill will be released on Hulu on May 7.Photo for The Washington Post by Celeste Sloman/makeup by Cassandra Garcia; hair by Anthony CampbellShow MoreShow Less
2of6Julia Sweeney (left) plays Vera, mother to Aidy Bryant s Annie, in Shrill. Allyson Riggs/HuluShow MoreShow Less
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4of6Chloe Fineman as Britney Spears and Aidy Bryant as Sen. Ted Cruz during the Saturday Night Live cold open on Feb. 20.Will Heath/NBCShow MoreShow Less