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Shrill Is Ending With Season 3, but It's Not Entirely Clear Why
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Shrill is coming to an end with its current third season, and if you've been a fan from the beginning, you might be worried about whether the show got a chance to wrap things up or just got canceled abruptly. From the sound of things, it was just a series of circumstances that made the decision for everyone, but that decision was made in time for the creative team to craft an ending on their own terms.
Part of the decision may have been the filming constraints in place due to the COVID-19 pandemic. According to
The A.V. Club: Congratulations on
Shrill season three. It winds up in kind of an open-ended manner, with a lot of unknowns still out there; while you were making it, did you guys know that this was going to be the final season?
Aidy Bryant: It’s weird, we kind of knew in the middle. I can’t remember exactly when we found out, but I know it was after we had written the whole season and mostly after we shot it, too. So it was more in the editing process where we were like, “Okay, how do we do this?”
Shrill Quietly Revolutionized the Portrayal of Fat Women on Television
The show's success with critics and audiences paves the way for more shows that celebrate fat bodies instead of pathologizing or pitying them.
By
Amy McCarthy
Illustrations by
Gillian Dreher
5/7/2021 at 12:30am
For a fat woman, there were so many moments in
Shrill, the Hulu series based on Seattle writer Lindy Westâs memoir of the same title, that delivered a walloping punch to the gut. Lauded by critics for its unflinching honesty about the experience of living in a fat body, the arc of Annie, the character based on West and portrayed by