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 well-meaning mother open the door and catch them in the act. This pubescent horror story is so ubiquitous onscreen that it’s practically become a requisite in most any coming of age story, but there’s one basic, crucial difference between that cliché and “Pen15’s” take. That humiliated teen is almost always a boy. “Pen15,” by deliberate contrast, hands that scene over to a girl, who’s embarrassed and terrified and secretly thrilled to have figured out what she can do for herself, without any help at all.
“Pen15” flips the adolescent script like this so many times with such clever insight that it can genuinely become disorienting after a lifetime of never seeing anything quite like it onscreen.
“Pen15” flips the adolescent script like this so many times with such clever insight that it can genuinely become disorienting after a lifetime of never seeing anything quite like it onscreen.
- 2/8/2019
- by Caroline Framke
- Variety Film + TV
Network: Hulu.
Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour).
Seasons: Ongoing.
TV show dates: February 8, 2019 — present.
Series status: Has not been cancelled.
Performers include: Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Mutsuko Erskine, Dylan Gage, Taj Cross, Taylor Nichols, Anna Pniowsky, Brady Allen, Lincoln Jolly, Ivan Mallon, Sami Rappoport, Melora Walters, Tony Espinosa, Brandon Keener, Dallas Liu, and Hannah Mae.
TV show description:
From co-creators and writers Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zvibleman, the PEN15 TV show is an adult comedy about life as a middle school student, in the year 2000. Erskine and Konkle star as 13-year-old fictionalized versions of themselves, Maya Ishii-Peters and Anna Kone (respectively) and play off actual adolescent actors.
Maya and Anna are nothing...
Episodes: Ongoing (half-hour).
Seasons: Ongoing.
TV show dates: February 8, 2019 — present.
Series status: Has not been cancelled.
Performers include: Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, Mutsuko Erskine, Dylan Gage, Taj Cross, Taylor Nichols, Anna Pniowsky, Brady Allen, Lincoln Jolly, Ivan Mallon, Sami Rappoport, Melora Walters, Tony Espinosa, Brandon Keener, Dallas Liu, and Hannah Mae.
TV show description:
From co-creators and writers Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zvibleman, the PEN15 TV show is an adult comedy about life as a middle school student, in the year 2000. Erskine and Konkle star as 13-year-old fictionalized versions of themselves, Maya Ishii-Peters and Anna Kone (respectively) and play off actual adolescent actors.
Maya and Anna are nothing...
- 2/8/2019
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
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