Spring can't come soon enough, with the news that Tiny Beautiful Things, based on Cheryl Strayed's best-selling book and starring Kathryn Hahn, will premiere this April on Hulu. Details were announced at the Television Critics Association winter press tour.
The limited series, which is based on Strayed's life and her time writing the advice column Dear Sugar, has all the makings of the next hit series for the streamer. Aside from Strayed’s and Hahn's involvement, Reese Witherspoon and Laura Dern are executive producers, and it's adapted for TV by Liz Tigelaar, who was an EP on Witherspoon's limited series Little Fires Everywhere.
“When I read the source material, there was such generosity in that, and such a heart in there,” Hahn told journalists at the TCAs on January 14. “Then, when I saw Liz [Tigelaar] had adapted that into this [show], I was incredibly moved to be a part of it.”
Hahn also noted that TV is where she wants to be right now, especially given that there's more room to tell complex stories with more depth. She noted that in a series such as Tiny Beautiful Things, it's nice to see “women's bodies that are older, that can feel deep, complicated [things that are] not the butt of the joke, and that are interesting, funny, illuminating and powerful. In all ways. And all different kinds of voices. I feel super psyched to be around at this age, at this time, in this medium.” (By the way, if you haven't read Hahn's letter about getting sexier with age, which she wrote for Glamour at the age of 44, check that out here.)
So what else do we know about the new, must-watch series? Read on for everything we know, including the first trailer that just dropped.