Maya, left, and Yuki are played by real-life daughter and mother Maya Erskine and Mutsuko Erskine on “PEN15.” (Hulu) Perspective by Inkoo Kang This article contains light spoilers for the ...

‘Pen15’ Season 2: TV Review. Maya Erskine, Anna Konkle, and Sam Zvibleman's delightfully awkward Hulu comedy continues to evolve beyond thirtysomethings-in-teenage-drag gimmick in season two ...

“PEN15’s” theme of friendship is almost deceptively simple: The only sure way for Maya and Anna to survive middle school is to stick together, even when their bond is routinely tested.

Part 2 of “Pen15‘s” second season is also its last — its last part, its last season, its last anything. Buried the week of release in a New Yorker profile of series leads Maya Erskine and ...

PEN15's third co-creator, Sam Zvibleman, directs every episode of season 2, and he finds a just-right rhythm in moments like this: the casualness of a weekend hang, ...

“Pen15” fits nicely with its Hulu comedy classmates. The streamer is building a burgeoning slate of R-rated comedies, which Springborn points out all have female friendships at their core ...

Pen15 garnered critical acclaim, a devoted cult fan base, and a writing Emmy nomination for its freshman season, which premiered last February. The first half of Season Two brings us back to ...

PEN15 is the weirder, funnier and completely un-sexy spiritual companion to Britney cradling that Teletubby, and the more soulful counterpart to "Not a Girl." It works because, ...

“Pen15” is the story of 13-year-old best friends in the year 2000, Anna Kone (Anna Konkle) and Maya Ishii-Peters (Maya Erskine), as they attempt to navigate the pain and humiliation of middle ...

Hulu has released the official trailer for PEN15, its new comedy series starring real-life longtime buds, Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle. According to the official logline, PEN15 is middle school as ...

“PEN15” often walks a line between sweet and crude, between memoir and sketch comedy, and sometimes it falls smack off it. (The title, which comes from an orthographic schoolyard prank, ...

Incredible performances make Hulu's 'PEN15' intriguing, but it feels too much like a sketch stretched into a series. By Tim Goodman The new Hulu comedy PEN15 has two incredibly strong things going ...