Cast: Malik Elassal as Samir, Lucy Freyer as Billie, Jack Innanen as Paul Baker, Amita Rao as Issa, Owen Thiele as Anton, with Charlie Cox as Mr Teacher, Darcy Carden as Alison, Ray Nicholson as Ethan, Julia Fox as herself

Network/Streaming Service: FX/hulu

Release Year: 2025

Length: 8 episodes

Audio Description Produced By:

Written By: Sara Foster

Narrated by: Sara Foster

What Is It?- Four gen-Z friends move into the currently vacant home of one of their parents, who are on an extended vacation, and deal with adulting in 2025. they are quickly joined by a fifth, who matches well with the other four, and is dating one of them. So, the main cast of four becomes five. Bawdy, sophomoric, and unafraid humor lines each episode.

What Works: At first, it was hard to read if these five would be the right five. but, they do end up gelling well together, and easily before the halfway point, they found their rhythm and ability to play off each other in a way that felt more naturalistic, and less multi-cam presentational. This falls in the same vein as shows like Friends, Living Single, How I Met Your mother, Happy Endings, and It’s Always Sunny, but feels more like a direct blend of It’s Always Sunny but with social media influencers. I’m not sure how they were all cast, but I’d believe it if they all had a social media presence.

I don’t think there’s a weak link, or a strong one. Anton is a little close to the gay best friend stereotype, your typical sassy quasi-queen that pops up in things to satisfy a specific quota. however, Anton is given plenty of weirdly entertaining scenarios that stretch at what is almost a walking stereotype.The show can have something as weird as following a rat with an air tag, to dealing with those people who just can’t stop visiting their high schools. You can do that once. More than that is a cry for help.

the thing about shows like this, is we’ve seen it done before. over, and over, and over. but it works when the casting is right, and when the show has a clear perspective. Adults could be the Gen Z Friends, if anyone knows it exists. It’s a show FX will have to gamble on to see if it picks up some heat, because the virtual unknowns aren’t going to be an immediate draw.

What Doesn’t work: Some of the jokes are a bit of a stretch. We spent an entire episode cringing as Samir tries to unclog a toilet, assuming he was the one who clogged it, but we learn otherwise.What goes from being relatable moves fast into ick territory. One of the girls ends up dating an ex-teacher, and the running gag is they don’t know his name, so they call him Mr. Teacher. However, the audio description doesn’t, even though that’s how Charlie Cox is credited. Instead, it keeps trying to describe him. There’s a storyline that will leave some cold that involves a teen coming to get an abortion, and needing a place to crash. The problem is, she’s so intensely unlikable that it doesn’t really help any messaging the series might be subliminally passing. if anything, she’s the opposite of what we should be putting out there. While no one would want her to be a parent, she really does seem like she’s inconvenienced by this more than anything. It doesn’t quite play as well as it could.

the Audio Description: comedies are hard. They often rely on dialogue, which this does, and blend it with physical comedy. honestly, this track is solid, and my biggest note was that we should have gone with Mr. Teacher for the few episodes he’s in. it’s part of the joke, and what they call him. I mean, they always say Paul Baker, so the track uses his full name. go with the show as the cast and writers are shaping it.

Why You Might Like it: Because you’ve been waiting for the next Friends/Happy endings/Big Bang Theory/Living Single/It’s Always Sunny/entourage/Girls/the League/etc. That’s your style of sitcom, and Adults is on brand.

Why You Might Not Like It: it strives to be edgy, sometimes at a cost, and you might be too old to relate to the characters who are VERY gen Z.

Final Thoughts: Adults hopes to grow up and into the kinds of shows it emulates, all while being born from a generation used to swiping right, and hashtagging their feelings.

Fresh: Final Grade: 7.1/10