Another episode focuses on Austin’s depression, an illness all three creators have battled. Penny’s arc in the premiere episode, in which she accuses a gay man of being homophobic, is based upon something Higgins did back when she worked at a tech startup. Much of Why Are You Like This was inspired by the creative team’s own experiences. Though they didn’t have much professional training, they did have plenty of material to draw from. The season finale revolves around Penny and Mia trying to decide if they should go to an influencer’s talk, as the online community keeps finding reasons to cancel the influencer for past misdeeds-a storyline, Higgins said, that exists to point out how “only stupid people cancel people.” In a third, Austin (played by Wil King) performs a drag act based on the theme of poverty. In another, Mia is determined to “decolonize pussy” by finding another person of color to have sex with-a mission her best friend, Penny (played by Higgins), fully supports. In the first episode, Mia (played by Olivia Junkeer), a woman of color, cries “discrimination” when her boss tries to fire her for being a bad employee-until she finds out that if she’s fired, she gets severance pay. To call them deeply dislikable would not go far enough. They are 20-somethings who live in Melbourne and are so woke that they’re constantly calling out the sins of those around them-particularly when doing so makes them look better. Yet self-esteem is something the main characters of Why Are You Like This definitely do not lack. While all three of the show’s creators are partial to making outrageous statements and punctuating them with “print that,” they did retract a few of their more controversial opinions during our conversation. The show, which has garnered much Twitter love in its home country, has also earned glowing reviews from The Guardian and The Sydney Morning Herald for the sardonic way it critiques and celebrates a cohort that’s always online. I was speaking to the Australian trio about their pessimistic and uncomfortably funny sitcom Why Are You Like This, premiering in the U.S. What better way to establish herself than competing in her mother's beloved Miss Teen Bluebonnet Pageant? This begins as a protest against pageants and her mother, but in time, it becomes a celebration of all types of beauty, prompting other overlooked misfits to join her. "This is a generous movie, and an unrepentant fantasy at that," wrote Elizabeth Weitzman of TheWrap about "Dumplin'," "so it's hard not to meet it with openheartedness.Right after asking if I was planning to write a hit piece, Naomi Higgins proclaimed that she, Humyara Mahbub, and Mark Samual Bonanno, are “un-cancelable.” A supremely confident and witty teenager, she stands up for herself against bullies who criticize her for her weight, but standing up to her mother, a former beauty queen, is a lot harder. She prefers to be called Will, but her mother - semi-degradingly, semi-affectionately - insists on referring to her as Dumplin'. A coming-of-age story and satisfying protest comedy about people just trying to find their place in the world, "Dumplin'" boasts a cast led by comedy legend Jennifer Aniston and charismatic star-on-the-rise Danielle Macdonald.
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