5/27/2023 0 Comments Pen15 theme songAnd by having Erskine and Konkle play the tween version of themselves, the show grants itself an opportunity to address those middle school pain and trauma from the perspective of adults that watching it unfolds is like reopening an old diary from when you were a tween that you’ve kept hidden under your bed for a very long time. Yes, underneath all the awkwardness and humor, PEN15 is a show about all the traumatic experiences that happen in middle school about the insecurity of realizing that you’re not as cool as you assume to be about what it feels like to be embarrassed in front of your first crush. But as the show goes on, this hilarious gimmick evolves into something more profound: an excellent way to mine the catharsis of reliving past trauma that Erskine and Konkle, along with co-creator Sam Zvibleman, are clearly trying to capture in the first place. This may seem a little distracting in the beginning, especially in the first few episodes of the first season. Co-creators and lead actors Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, both in their thirties, play the 13-year-old version of themselves while the other middle schoolers characters are played by actual middle-school-aged kids. ![]() ![]() There’s a brilliant visual gag in Hulu’s middle-school raunchy comedy PEN15. ![]() ![]()
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