{"id":252202,"date":"2025-10-31T11:38:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252202\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T11:38:12","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:38:12","slug":"adults-will-do-some-more-growing-up-in-season-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/252202\/","title":{"rendered":"Adults will do some more growing up in season 2"},"content":{"rendered":"

The hangout comedy<\/a> is still holding its own with FX\u2019s Adults, which was renewed for a second season on Thursday. Created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw and produced by Nick Kroll, the series follows a group of semi-aimless 20-somethings living together in New York City. In a statement, FX Entertainment\u2019s Executive Vice President of Development Kate Lambert said, \u201cBen and Rebecca are incredibly talented writers, and they have expertly and hilariously captured the experience of being a young adult in today\u2019s world. The entire cast\u2014Malik [Elassal], Lucy [Freyer], Jack [Innanen], Amita [Row] and Owen [Thiele]\u2014is exceptional in bringing it to life in a way that has truly connected with its audience.\u201d<\/p>\n

In her B+ review<\/a>, The A.V. Club\u2018s Saloni Gajjar observes that although the series doesn\u2019t get much time to breathe over its eight-episode first season, \u201cthere\u2019s plenty of potential here, thanks to laugh-out-loud moments \u2026 and delightful guest stars.\u201d She writes, \u201cMost of all, the show taps into what life is like for older Gen Zs in the current socioeconomic and political climate. Stepping into adulthood during uncertain times is awkward and a challenge for the series\u2019 five chums, who cope with the insurance troubles and lost jobs, adjust to the gig economy, stand up for political beliefs, or generally exist in this era of overwhelming dating apps, data tracking, and social media.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Speaking with Collider<\/a> in May, Shaw teased the possibility of a second season for Adults. \u201cWe\u2019re really hoping there will be. We have so many more stories to tell with these characters. We have fallen madly in love with them and want to see what they look like in relationships and out of, and at work, and navigating new friendships, and friendships falling apart,\u201d she said. The first season ended on a cliffhanger\u2014spoiler alert\u2014of Anton (Thiele) and Issa\u2019s (Rao) Canadian boyfriend Paul Baker (Innanen) getting married to help Paul Baker get his green card. But feelings seemed to spark between the newlyweds that may cause friction in the friend group. \u201cIssa and Paul Baker\u2019s relationship is one that we\u2019ve sort of taken for granted over the course of the first few episodes,\u201d Shaw said. \u201cI think there\u2019s a lot more to mine there and things that we\u2019re so excited for our audiences to see.\u201d<\/p>\n

What’s on TV this week\u2014The Better Sister, Dept. Q, Adults<\/a>Adults eventually matures into a promising hangout sitcom<\/a><\/p>\n

Kronengold added, \u201cSo much of your 20s is going out into the world and taking a big, wild, confident swing and then retreating to your comfort zone and your comfort people and being like, \u2018I think I just did something really, really wrong,\u2019 and having the intimacy to be like, \u2018I\u2019m trying to have all the right thoughts and to be the right kind of person, but I\u2019m really afraid I\u2019m fucking it up,\u2019 and your best friend saying, \u2018Me fucking too.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The hangout comedy is still holding its own with FX\u2019s Adults, which was renewed for a second season…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":252203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[49,48,75,348],"class_list":["post-252202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=252202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/252202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/252203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=252202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=252202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=252202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}