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The comedy based on Lindy West’s memoir about being overweight is back on our screens for the last time, pumped full of wit and self-love

Shrill’s second season, Annie ( Saturday Night Live’s Aidy Bryant) breaks up with her boyfriend just as her friends start lighting fireworks to celebrate another friend's singleness. The boyfriend is a doofus—like one of the dumber side characters in a Judd Apatow movie—and the moment feels triumphant. That triumph is swiftly deflated. Season three—the Hulu show’s last—opens with now-single Annie hooking up. Or sort of, almost. The guy finishes prematurely and produces “just a drop” of semen, then gets embarrassed, then tries to re-woo Annie with b...

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 m...

On Tuesday, Saturday Night Live's Aidy Bryant unveiled the trailer for the third (and final) eight-episode season of Shrill, which premieres May 7 on Hulu. The 33-year-old co-creator and star - who plays Portland journalist Annie Easton in the sitcom - wrote on Instagram: 'See you at my birthday party on May 7th!' In the two-minute preview, Annie glams up for a girls' night out with her BFF Fran (Lolly Adefope) and co-workers Maureen (Jo Firestone) and Ruthie (Patti Harrison).   Premieres May 7 on Hulu! On Tuesday, Saturday Night Live's Aidy Bryant unveiled the trailer for the third (and fi...

Shrill is coming to an end. The Hulu comedy, starring  Saturday Night Live's Aidy Bryant and based on the memoir by Seattle writer Lindy West, will conclude with its upcoming third season, which recently wrapped filming.  " Shrill has been one of the most creatively satisfying experiences of my life," Bryant said in a statement, "a true labor of love for me and everyone who worked so hard on it." Shrill premiered in 2019, with Bryant portraying Annie, a fictionalized version of West, who works as a staff writer at an alternative newspaper called  The Weekly Thorn, a  city-swapped vers...