In the first episode of Hulu s Shrill, the main character, Annie (Aidy Bryant ), discovers shes pregnant. She meets up with her best friend and roommate, Fran (Lolly Adefope), to talk through how it happened: The morning-after pill shes been taking is only effective for people up to a certain weight, and shes been lax about using condoms with the guy shes seeing.

Raw-dogging is literally his favorite thing, Annie says, using a rather illustrative term for going sans prophylactics. How could I take away his favorite thing?

My favorite thing is you not having a child with a guy who says raw dog, Fran answers, completely deadpan.

Its one of many excellent lines delivered by Fran, a gay hairdresser who lives with Annie in a charmingly decorated house in Portland, Oregon. (During taping, Bryant and Adefope would hang out in the houses plant-filled nook between scenes.) In Adefopes words, Fran is confident and takes no shit.

In your standard sitcom, Annie and Fran could have drawn as stereotypes: Annie unconfident and shrinking, Fran a brash, body-positive warrior. But Shrill, Hulus show inspired by Lindy West s essay collection of the same name (West is an executive producer and co-writer on the show), presents the duo as nuanced and compelling their bodies are an aspect of their identities, not the sum total.