The Pitch: It’s the year 2000, a time filled not with the jetpacks and flying cars promised in decades past, but instead gel pens, dial-up Internet, and the crushing anxiety of 21st-century ...

The first season of Hulu’s PEN15 felt like the Cliff Notes version of a TV comedy. Fans knew what the joke was from the beginning: two thirty-something actresses playing the 13-year-old versions of ...

A funny thing happens during Season Two of Hulu‘s middle school comedy Pen15. Or, rather, it’s a not-so-funny thing, but a very interesting one. Early in Season Two, though, I found that I had stopped ...

Pen15 makes me sweaty. Much of the show’s comedy relies on dramatic irony, which — especially against the backdrop of middle school, a time most of us would rather forget — can make it incredibly ...

Mashable's entertainment team picks our Watch of the Week, TV shows and movies that you absolutely must add to your list. Every once in a while, social media is swarmed by people participating in 10 ...

Whether corny or poignant, raunchy or straight-laced, TV is currently saturated with coming-of-age stories: grown-ish, Big Mouth, the newly debuted Sex Education. But Hulu's PEN15, premiering Feb. 7, ...

No period of life is more dramatic, transformative, or as endlessly weird as your middle school years. It’s that universal truth that PEN15 understood, time and time again. Though it’s nice to know ...

"There's not a lot of heroic acts in middle school," Maya Erskine said in this 2019 interview. She and Anna Konkle play 13-year-old versions of themselves in the comedy series PEN15, now in season 2.

Hulu‘s Pen15 is an opus to that era in middle school when all of us were just awkwardly navigating our raging hormones while feeling like an outcast. The “traumedy” returns for a second season ...

Halfway through “Pen15” comes a scene we’ve seen a million times before. A teenager, fumbling to understand their own changing body, figures out that masturbating can feel amazing, only to have their ...

Seventh grade is objectively miserable. When you’re hovering between childhood and tweendom, new sources of embarrassment, anxiety and insecurity lurk around every corner. Best case scenario: You make ...