Lindy West Flips TV’s Fat Tropes
Happy To Be Here
Greta Johnsen
4.8 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 22 March 2019
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Oh hey it's Lindy West!
Lindy's the the executive producer of Shrill, a new Hulu series starring SNL's Aidy Bryant that's based on Lindy's 2016 novel of the same name. And we talk with Lindy about a few of the delightful scenes from the series (including an epic pool party), why Lindy left Twitter, and her forthcoming new book called The Witches Are Coming. She also tells us about how her new Hulu series subverts a common TV trope.
“Usually what we get are weight loss narratives and makeover narratives. And these sort of sad sack stories about either people trying to lose weight and succeeding or trying to lose weight and failing and being sad,” Lindy says.“The whole idea is that there are other ways to live and that you deserve a life that is bigger than that — and that has a scope beyond your body and what it weighs.”
Lindy West y'all!
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| 0:13.6 | Hey, so this week's interview is about a Hulu show that has some |
| 0:19.6 | curses and other inappropriate things in it and I curse a lot and there are other inappropriate things in it. |
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| 0:44.3 | fucking thrilled for this week's guest because if she's not already one of your |
| 0:48.9 | favorite people I'm telling you she's about to be. Her name is Lindy West and she has a new TV show on Hulu called |
| 0:55.8 | Shrill. It's loosely based on a memoir also called Shrill that she wrote a couple of |
| 1:00.1 | years ago and it's about being a funny loud woman and taking up space in the world |
| 1:04.7 | and confronting trolls among many other things. |
| 1:07.7 | So I figure out a way to link the IP addresses with the user comments which means that |
| 1:10.8 | you found the location of my troll. |
| 1:13.0 | Yeah, yeah, you stole that moment from me. |
| 1:17.0 | Okay, I'm sorry, I just got all this troll adrenaline because I'm all jacked up. So basically I just got to figure out which |
| 1:25.2 | comments are his and which are just like other terrible peoples. Okay. Like let's just go through it here. This one says oink, yeah. This one says oink, oink, oink, you little piggy sled. This one says oooinck, you little piggy sled. This one says like you must need a shirt but |
| 1:36.2 | a climb the stairs. You have a snout and a little piggy tail. |
| 1:39.6 | Okay. And this one again says oink, different user but... Yeah. You you know you actually you don't have to read them all out his username is just the awesome so any of those like see that one that says |
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