The ensemble comedy “Adults” will return for Season 2 in August, but FX is tiding fans over with a standalone prequel episode debuting on July 31.
The episode, which introduces the central friend group and reveals Paul Baker’s (Jack Innanen) origin story, was screened as a surprise on Thursday night at the Tribeca Festival in New York. Titled “Marathon Day,” the episode is written by series creators Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw and directed by Jonathan Krisel. It’ll be available on FXX and Hulu on July 31 at 10 a.m. PT.
“We’re so excited for the opportunity to show fans how this friend group came to be,” said Kronengold and Shaw. “We love a good origin story, and we can’t wait for you to see where the radioactive spider bit Paul Baker.”
Season 2 of “Adults” will premiere on Aug. 27 with all eight episodes available to stream on Hulu. The series follows a group of twenty-somethings in New York as they navigate love, work, friendship and family. Samir (Malik Elassal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Paul Baker (Jack Innanen), Issa (Amita Rao) and Anton (Owen Thiele) are five friends crashing together in Samir’s childhood home.
Teasing the new episodes, FX wrote in a press release: “Over eight episodes, the housemates tackle a new set of real-world questions. What if the 20-year-old who inherited your fake ID is cooler than you ever were, and younger than you’ll ever be again? How do you explain to your friends that you actually love your boring office job? Why does being around your family make you regress into your worst self? And how do you ask for things to change, when you also need everything to stay the same? Together, the friends weave intricate webs of multi-player strategy just to avoid hurting someone else’s feelings. They invent elaborate workarounds for problems they’re too afraid to face head-on. It’s not so much that they keep learning the same lessons – it’s that they keep finding new ways to make mistakes. But the one thing they consistently get right: showing up for each other.”
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