Save this article to read it later.
Find this story in your accountsSaved for Latersection.
On the one hand, it depicts an empowering transformation and is suitably celebratory.
Theres more than a bit of Gadsby in Brittany (Jillian Bell).
Marathons, after all, arent really about momentum.
For all but a select few, they end with limping, panting, staggering, and pain.
Brittanys psyche, meanwhile, is rarely in synch with the changes in her body.
She does have more energy.
She feels good when she looks at herself in the mirror.
Brittany is too well defended to open up to cute guys she meets on dating and hookup sites.
Shes wary (and should be!)
Too much is at stake to laugh.
Seth, whos gay, is the only character in a stable relationship, raising kids with his husband.
His eulogy for her soon-to-be-discarded fat dress was iambically precise: Alas, poor fat dress.
I knew her, Horatio, a garment of infinite stretch.
My concern was not misplaced.
Can you spell stress fracture, kiddies?
(Brittany is based on a close friend of Collaizos who had similar problems.)
So,Brittany Runs a Marathonhas an unusually protracted third-act-doldrums section.
Brittany gets drunk and projects appallingly all her self-hatred on this kind, unassuming woman.
Suddenly, we dont know if Brittany will make it, and neither does Brittany.
Collaizo makes you understand the journey to create herself anew will be the true marathon.
