Hulu's PEN15 is back with a Season 2 packed with more cringe moments, more emotional nuance, and increasingly better performances from series co-creators and stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle. What began as a show interested in revisiting the growing pains of life while on the cusp of puberty — and steeped in early '00s pop culture, making it extremely appealing and relevant to older Millennial viewers — is now a show focused on exploring the emotional stakes of the narrative groundwork laid down in Season 1. This results in a thoroughly rewarding return, one which bears the fruit of …

PEN15, the middle-school-set Hulu comedy, manages to pull off a strange casting magic trick with remarkable aplomb. Its creator-stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, whom are adult women, play themselves at age 13 among a cast full of actual 13-year-olds — and they blend in perfectly. It results in a downright magical-feeling show, a gentle, earnest, very awkward comedy that will remind everyone what it feels like to be in the most horrific years of your life. Season 2 is coming September 18, and the first trailer gives us everything I loved about season 1 …

Hulu has finally revealed when PEN15 Season 2 will be released courtesy of a laugh-out-loud teaser trailer. The Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine-led comedy follows two middle schoolers coming-of-age in the early '00s. It's easily one of the best TV debuts I've seen in a long time, and I know I'm not the only one who was left clamoring for more episodes after binging Season 1 back in February 2019. Well, now I'm full-on content because Hulu has confirmed Season 2 of PEN15 will land on Friday, September 18. But, …

In Hulu's Pen15, Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle takes us back to puberty. From first kisses to body image, we relive each awkward rite of passage.

Is it possible to look back on our tweenhood years and not cringe? If you've watched Hulu's new show Pen15, the answer is a resounding yes. The show is created by, and stars, Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle as their thirteen-year-old selves, while their peers are portrayed by real middle schoolers, and the results are just as hilarious and poignant as they are awkward.

To a certain subset of the millennial generation—those of us who can still distinctly remember the screech of a dial-up internet but also don't quite recall never having an iPhone—Hulu's PEN15 is going to be, as we used to say on AIM, 2Real4U. Created by Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle with The Lonely Island's Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, and Jorma Taccone onboard as executive producers, the 10-episode series stars Erskine and Konkle playing seventh-grade versions of themselves surrounded by real grade-school actors. But that's never a gimmick. It never devolves …