In an interview with The Daily Beast, Fightmaster explained the joys of working on Shrill and how much they enjoy telling stories of marginalized people that don't end in trauma or tragedy.
"When I think about the kind of 'gay programming' that I was brought up with, it was like, Brokeback Mountain . . . On a show where all of those bodies are involved and none of those bodies are in danger, you just get to actually be funny, and actually get to enjoy the experience. And you're not channeling trauma . . . I feel like queer actors are constantly just put in roles where they're like, 'Channel your trauma! Again!'"
