Freaks and Geeks is a quintessential cult classic TV but there's a more recent teen comedy series that captures a similar ...

Their Pen15 characters ... get to use the show as a corrective, such as in a scene where Maya comforts Anna when her parents are fighting in another room over the sound of the TV.

Maya Erskine and Anna ... show’s sophomore season or negate the emotions of Season 1, teen tantrum style, the duo decided to amp them up, taking an often darker turn to reflect their characters ...

Maya Rudolph certainly has plenty of movies and TV for fans to enjoy ... Saturday Night Live. This sketch show that has been ongoing since the 1970s has stayed popular for decades, rotating ...

All of which makes it fertile soil for both comedy and drama — and makes Pen15 one of the most cathartic shows on television ... the Hulu series follows Maya Ishii-Peters and Anna Kone, two ...

Konkle, meanwhile, sees her awkward fourth- and fifth-grade self in her character ... After Maya’s and Anna’s identity crises, the next group of episodes show them landing on an identity ...

The final installment of PEN15, the show about middle school ... approved of me. I see Maya’s character very much going through that and Anna, too: of getting older, of getting attention from ...

To the extent you do remain aware that Konkle and Erskine are grown women, it only makes their outsider characters seem ... the geeks of that earlier show, Maya and Anna live in their heads ...

However, what really drives the show is the comedic chemistry of the two leads, Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle ... who play best friend characters on the series, are actually friends outside ...

The characters, Maya Ishii-Peters and Anna Kone, enter seventh grade in the year 2000. The show pays faithful attention ... and Instagram in Adapting TV to Social Media Even when trashy or ...