“I hope we do glorify obesity,” she said, “because every single person deserves to feel wonderful sometimes, and to feel valued and special and beautiful — like a legitimate part of society. Because they are.”

Bryant, for her part, said she was proud to see herself tap into a different skill set on “Shrill,” and excel at a much quieter style of story telling from the broad sketch comedy of “Saturday Night Live”

“We made a real effort to keep things grounded, and that’s something I’ve always felt I’m good at, just finding out what’s genuine about a scene,” she said. “That’s something I hope translated in a way that there isn’t always space for at ‘S.N.L.’”

Now comes the period where Bryant will start to share “Shrill” — and the relentlessly self-scrutinizing thoughts beneath it — with a wider audience that might not have known that she felt that way about herself.

It’s a process she began over the Christmas holiday when she showed the series to her parents and brother and awaited their reactions.

“The thing that shook them up more were the sex scenes,” she said. “Even when I gave my mom a heads-up — I was like, just F.Y.I. — her first question was, ‘Do you have to make the noises?’”