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PEN15 - Season 2
The comedic story of middle school seen through the eyes of two 7th grade girls dealing with the awkwardness of being a teenager.
1 November 1976, Mount Vernon, Washington, USA
16 April 1971, Queens, New York, USA
3 March 1959, Lansing, Michigan, USA
3 December 2004, Stockton, California, USA
13 June 1964, Jamestown, New York, USA
1 October 1974, Fort Smith, Arkansas, USA
September 16, 2020
PEN15 understands this better than any other shows; how easier our lives would be if we can find the Anna to our Maya. And for that very reason, it's safe to say that our lives will be better with Pen15 in it.
September 08, 2020
While I appreciate all of the work Konkle is turning in here in Season 2, especially as she plays a young teen caught in the middle of her parents' messy separation, it's clear that Maya's emotional journey is the anchor of PEN15 this season.
September 14, 2020
PEN15 is easily one of the funniest comedies on right now, and it's made so much better by the fact that the conceit of having two adults play middle schoolers surrounded by actual children is never the source of that comedy.
September 17, 2020
Our foolish, naive and socially inexperienced teenagers return and the second instalment heightens the traumedy that we already loved.
September 16, 2020
It's incredibly hard to capture the mindset of that age without coloring experiences with regret or fantasy fulfillment, or filtering them through adulthood's learned lessons. It captures the feelings as they emerged raw.
September 09, 2020
Disavowing "drama," they live to create more drama, and "PEN15" hilariously draws the viewer right in the awful middle of it. Anyone who can't relate might have been unconscious as a teen.
September 16, 2020
More melancholic in its second season, PEN15 understands that junior high is the start of difficult, confusing, strange years of struggle to understand the world and one's place in it.
September 17, 2020
The second season of PEN15 is going to break your heart.
September 08, 2020
The potency of PEN15 is in the moments that send you spiralling back to adolescence, whether capturing the ache of a first crush or grappling with burgeoning adulthood.
September 08, 2020
I can't do justice to the vibrant thrill of the central performances. The bond between Maya and Anna feels unspoken and lived-in, full of sentences that trail off into meaningful glances.
September 15, 2020
Pen15 has definitely changed, but in ways that are almost entirely for the better. What was once a gimmick is now a thoroughly excellent and warm show.
September 16, 2020
This will presumably always be Erskine and Konkle's showcase - both should be awards contenders - but the second season accentuates casting director Melissa DeLizia's smart work selecting the younger actors.
