NP - PEN15 (Hulu)

[Charles Albert]

This sounds a bit like one of the most underrated series of all time, Anne
Beatts' Square Pegs...theme by the incomparable Waitresses.

https://youtu.be/Lq6g5qwAPv8

I was fit to kill when they cancelled it...the kid who played the
Obligatory Goof anticipated Kato Kaelin by nearly a decade...

love,

cfa




On Tue, Aug 24, 2021, 12:58 AM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> I really love this TV show:
>
> https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEN15
>
> This comedy series depicts middle school as it really happened. Comics Maya
> Erskine and Anna Konkle play versions of themselves as teenage outcasts in
> the year 2000, during a time when the best day of your life can turn into
> the worst with the stroke of a gel pen. Adult Maya and Anna -- as their
> younger
> selves -- are surrounded by actual teenagers as they re-experience some of
> the ups and downs of middle school life. They get a lot of unexpected
> attention on the first day of school and later face the temptation to do
> drugs.
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