If you are completely exhausted by traditional Hollywood sitcoms that only ever depict thin, conventionally flawless protagonists navigating a glossy world, Netflix has just added a brutally honest comedy gem that you need to rediscover immediately. Moving far away from the formulaic comfort of New Girl or Friends, this Emmy-nominated 3-season masterpiece delivers a fiercely sharp, droll, and uncomfortably realistic look at modern body politics and self-acceptance. The narrative follows a clever, plus-size writer who is tired of merely apologizing for her own existence in a world that wasn’t built for her.
Even though the television world has become more diverse over the past couple of decades, the types of stories told tend to come from traditional voices. This is even more true for comedies. With female protagonists, the stories are typically from the perspective of classically beautiful, thin women (a la Friends, Sex and the City, New Girl, etc.). We’ve only just seen more … Read more