Your Small-Screen Spirit Animal

Kathryn Hahn is among the most watchable, wonderful players on TV. And with her next series, I Love Dick, she’ll (finally) be a bona-fide star, too

- Phoebe Reilly

When Kathryn Hahn says, “I’ve been pretending to be normal for so much of my life,” you can’t help but think, what a waste! Over the past five years, the actress has become a sort of stealth TV icon, the kind you’re thrilled to see pop up in whatever amazing show you happen to be watching – Girls, Transparent, Parks And Recreation – because you know you’re in for something hilarious, totally lacking in vanity, deeply human and occasionally weird. (She’s worked that skill set on the big screen, too, most recently in Bad Moms, in which she matter-offactly demonstrated how to handle an uncircumcised penis – using a hoodiewearing Kristen Bell.) Now, she’s filming the first show in which she’ll be the unequivocal star, the Amazon produced series