![]() ![]() ![]() Aidy Bryant stars as Annie, a journalist on the up in Portland, Oregon, who picks unhappily at a plastic container filled with “thin menu” slabs of things that are supposed to be pancakes, but look more like courtroom sketches of them. Shrill is a comedy in the way that The Bisexual is a comedy, or Barry is a comedy, or Russian Doll is a comedy: you will end up laughing, but not very much, and not all that often, although that is not necessarily to its detriment. This is a show worth investing in, rather than an instant fix. But there is much to enjoy everywhere, in ways that slowly reveal themselves. ![]() This sneakily affecting comedy is a loose adaptation of Lindy West’s memoir, Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman audiences familiar with her journalism, particularly her astonishing segment for the podcast This American Life about meeting her online troll, will find pleasure in spotting the bits borrowed from real life. A lthough it aired in the US in March, and a trailer for its second season is already online, the first season of Shrill (BBC Three) has only just made its way to the UK. ![]()
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