The Showtime comedy starring Abby McEnany, who co-created it with Tim Mason -- with The Matrix‘s Lilly Wachowski serving as a writer and executive producer -- revolves around a self-described butch “queer fat dyke” with OCD whose deep insecurity about all the above manifest in often debilitating suicidal tendencies. "Having only watched four episodes, I’m not entirely sure where the season is going (though the end of the almond line seems like a natural climax)," says Caroline Framke. "And yet, from what I’ve seen, Work in Progress is a remarkably solid debut from a comedian who knows her own voice, knows it’s funny, and is nonetheless unafraid to admit when she doesn’t like it. If more comedians could do the same, TV would be better off."
Work in Progress is not only McEnany’s first TV series but it’s the first time she’s been on a professional set: “That’s funny, because I often say that it’s like a fairytale. It is legitimately my dream come true,” she says, adding: "I’ve always wanted to do it, because I think there are not a lot of people like me in film or on TV...You see fat women and old women and queer women and butch women. That’s who I am, right? Old, fat, butch, grey-haired. I’m not trying to say I’m the only one. But I would say, there are not a lot.”