"Pen15" the animated special on teenage insecurities

"Pen15" the animated special on teenage insecurities

Subscribers will be able to spend quality time with enhanced versions of Hulu's favorite seventh grade alumni this summer, while Anna and Maya return for a special animated episode Pen15, premiered on Friday 27 August on the streamer.

In episode 208, “Jacuzzi,” Curtis (Taylor Nichols), Anna and Maya are introduced to new crippling insecurities during the summer vacation. Girls try to ignore them, but a mystical twist makes it impossible to forget their doubt.

Pen15 is an R-rated “trauma” set in middle school as it actually happened in 2000. Series creator Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine interpret versions of themselves as 13-year-old outcasts, surrounded by real XNUMX-year-olds. In this world, the seventh grade never ends and the pains of growing up are inevitable.

From Awesomeness studio, Pen15 was created, written and produced by Erskine, Konkle and Sam Zvibleman. Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer, Jorma Taccone and Becky Sloviter of The Lonely Island, Marc Provissiero and Brooke Pobjoy of Odenkirk Provissiero Entertainment and Debbie Liebling are also executive producers.

The animated special “Jacuzzi” is written by Konkle and directed by Dan Schimpf and Alex Anfanger. Starburns Industries (Rick and Morty, Anomalisa) provides animation.

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