‘Pen15’
If you were a teenager around 2000, Hulu’s new comedy Pen15 may look a little familiar. Produced by The Lonely Island, Sam Zvibleman, and stars Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, Pen15 follows incoming middle schoolers Maya and Anna as they tackle puberty, algebra, and the seventh grade social hierarchy. But the cringe comedy is so much more than an IRL Big Mouth: it’s a heartfelt, female-centric series that will make you reminisce about the days when you and your friends spent hours after school doing absolutely nothing. Life was so much easier when your biggest concern was crafting the perfect AIM away message, wasn’t it?