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‘Adults’ Creators Break Down Season 2’s Most Shocking Moments and Tease a Potential Season 3

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Editor’s Note: The following contains major spoilers for all of Adults Season 2.

Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw are no strangers to the comedy world. The two met in college, where they not only fell in love but also became a writing team who went viral for their comedic Yale graduation speech (in front of Hillary Clinton, no less). Shortly after, the two began writing for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, on which they are credited on over 450 episodes.

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Perhaps no two people were better equipped to take on the mantle of the beloved “20-something New Yorkers hangout sitcom” genre. Adults follows in the tradition of classics like Friends, How I Met Your Mother, and Girls while putting a distinctly Gen Z twist on things. With a unique take on dating, sexuality, and technology — not to mention a specific, ever-evolving vocabulary and sense of humor — it can be tricky to pin down the personality and dynamics of today’s young adults; Kronengold and Shaw have all but mastered it. Blending irreverent, edgy humor with unexpected warmth and genuine heart, Adults is a hilarious gem that will make you smile and cringe in equal measure. While Season 1 showed promise, Season 2 offers an even sharper, more confident, and rewarding journey with Samir (Malik Elassal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Paul Baker (Jack Innanen), Issa (Amita Rao), and Anton (Owen Thiele).

Collider got the chance to do a deep dive with Kronengold and Shaw, talking all things Season 2. From Issa and Paul Baker’s mid-season break-up to Samir and Billie’s shocking finale hook-up, the duo spilled the tea on all of the fizzling and sparking romances in the group. The two also discussed the season’s biggest cameos and guest stars, both subverting and paying tribute to sitcoms that came before, what to expect from a potential Season 3, and much more.

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That ‘Adults’ Prequel Episode Is Even More Important Than You Think

“What better way to welcome people back or welcome people for the first time?”

COLLIDER: I’m so excited to chat with both of you.

REBECCA SHAW: God, the feeling is so mutual. We’ve been so looking forward to this.

BEN KRONENGOLD: We’re so honored, and we love your writing, so we’re so excited.

Oh my gosh, thank you so much. Well, I absolutely loved this season.

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SHAW: I’m so happy! We haven’t talked to anyone who’s seen it yet, so this is so fun.

I’m so honored to be the first! I want to start by talking about the prequel episode a little bit. I thought it was so interesting how that episode is essentially serving as a new pilot, since it is listed as the first episode of the show on Hulu. I’m curious if you can talk a little bit about how that decision came about to put it there in the line-up.

SHAW: It’s funny — we talked about it as two different things. One is that we get a lot of questions from fans about how this group met each other. I think that, in the lineage of the friend group comedies, some of them drop you in on a random episode on a random day where they’re getting up to some adventure, but we’re not seeing the group form. When we knew we had the opportunity to do a Season 2, we wanted to tell that story partly to give to the existing fans of the show, and then the other part of it really was: when you think about a Season 2, you think about, “How do we want to welcome new viewers into the show?” So that was the other side of it as well. What better way to welcome people back or welcome people for the first time than to show the fifth member of the friend group getting welcomed in?

KRONENGOLD: This is the first time we’ve gotten to talk to someone about the response, but it’s been so heartening and so exciting to see people eat up this lore. What we really set out to do was make these two meet-cutes happen. Season 2 is a lot about these relationships and this love triangle, and we had it in our heads, “What if we pulled off a double meet-cute?” So now seeing fans use that language and be like, “Oh my gosh, the day that Paul Baker met Issa was also the day that he met Anton, and these two very different but both very valid relationships formed.” It was a cool opportunity to give viewers that a few weeks before coming into Season 2, where Issa and Paul Baker’s relationship is going to fall apart, and the Anton/Paul Baker relationship is going to blossom. It was a cool opportunity, and very cool of FX to allow viewers to experience it in this unique way.

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Did you always know that Paul Baker met the group in this way, or were there other pitches that you considered besides the marathon?

KRONENGOLD: Oh, that’s such a good question.

SHAW: You know, it’s a funny thing. We knew we wanted to tell a marathon story. That’s been something that, from the beginning in the writers’ room — from Season 1 — we’ve talked about. It feels like such an iconically New York experience. The part that we started with was knowing that we wanted Paul Baker to have a special moment with Issa and a special moment with Anton, so that was really where the idea was built out of. That sort of formed the framework. We really wanted to see the group through Paul Baker’s eyes. We really wanted to watch what it feels like to be a newcomer in this friend group and see the delusional ridiculousness of the way that they interact with each other, but more than anything, the way that they really love each other and stand up for each other.

KRONENGOLD: We live in New York, so walking around New York and spending time in our 20s in New York is such fodder for Adults episodes. We went to the marathon. We had a friend who was running in our early twenties, and we waited for her at the finish line, and we expected the world to be like, “What a triumph of human resilience and the spirit of these incredible athletes.” And then we started hearing screams, and we looked to the side, and there was a runner cramped up, vomiting. That was why we always wanted to do a marathon episode. You never see the person who’s collapsing in the restaurant afterwards. We were like, “If Paul Baker would run a marathon, he’d probably do it without much training.” It’s such a “Rachel in the wedding dress” thing — such a vibrant way to crash into this group — so that’s sort of how it came together.

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Would you ever go back further and do a high school episode, maybe Pen15 style? We got a little bit of that in “The Scrub.”

SHAW: Oh my god, I would love to watch an episode of Billie and Samir in high school together. That’s a great idea.

KRONENGOLD: It’s such a great idea. Now we’ll have to give you co-credit.

Season 3! I’m ready for it.

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KRONENGOLD: It is always a really interesting conversation about who is going to play the younger versions of these characters. The writers and we looked back at our own embarrassing Facebook posts, and we were like, “We all still look perhaps too much like we did at the time,” so we sort of realized that our actors were going to be able to pull it off. Then again, I will say that we did use a mix, I’m realizing, because the actor who played Samir actually was not Malik, but he looked so much like Malik that I’ve encoded it in my mind as Malik. But the casting challenge of how to drop back into high school for Billie and Samir would be really fun and interesting.

‘Adults’ Isn’t Afraid to Break the Fourth Wall — Here’s Why

“There is that way of speaking that sort of acknowledges the ridiculousness and the stagedness of the way that we all move through the world.”

Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw on the set of Adults Season 2
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I loved Issa sort of breaking the fourth wall in the Season 2 premiere by saying, “We’re doing a oner!” It’s especially fun because a lot of comedies are these mockumentary-style things. Obviously, you don’t do that, but you do play with style and form a little. I’m curious if you can talk about breaking the fourth wall and doing some fun things with that.

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SHAW: Adults has always dabbled a little bit in surrealism. I think it’s something that our generation is really comfortable with — maybe it’s because we spend so much time on the internet and consuming media. We are all used to jumping in and out of that fourth wall a little bit, but we try to keep the rules fairly consistent between the characters, and for us, Issa is the character who winks at the fourth wall. It feels very true to who she is. Despite seeming sort of flippant sometimes, she is a little more in on the joke than we realize. Even with our friends, sometimes we’ll say things that almost imply we’re breaking the fourth wall. You know, people will be like, “But I would never do something like that. Cut to later, I’m doing…” There is that way of speaking that sort of acknowledges the ridiculousness and the stagedness of the way that we all move through the world. So I think for us, Issa is really the character who does that.

KRONENGOLD: I was thinking the other day, in fact, about how she’s also the character who’s never seen any movies. You’d think those things would be mutually exclusive, but I actually am kind of delighted by the fact that she is incredibly media literate, because to be media literate nowadays does not necessarily mean you’ve seen a lot of films.

SHAW: Issa’s seen a lot of things in 15-second increments, but she has absolutely no context for them.

KRONENGOLD: She’s seen and heard a lot of references to things, which is kind of how she emits her media back out into the world. You’re totally right. She mentions that they’re doing a oner. She also mentions in the first episode that the fact that Paul Baker doesn’t have social media is canon, and she talks about spinning off in the finale of this season, so she’s very much tapping away at that fourth wall in a way that’s very fun and traces back to the first season, too.

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I have to ask, what movies do you think she has seen?

SHAW: Good question. Nobody’s ever asked us that before!

KRONENGOLD: I think that she has seen Avatar: The Last Airbender, which is a big plot point in Episode 4 of this season. However, that’s a TV show, of course. I, literally moments before this, was watching the new Avatar: The Last Airbender movie, so it’s top of mind, but I wonder if Issa wouldn’t have watched that. I think she’s probably a fan of anime and read manga in her youth, but I do think that, when she started Avatar: The Last Airbender — the new movie — and realized it was a movie and not, in fact, a 23-minute episode, she was probably done.

SHAW: I think Issa thinks she’s seen Sophie’s Choice, but the more questions you ask her about it, the more you realize not only has she not seen it, but she doesn’t even know what the choice was. She had a dream once that she has, and it’s encoded in her head.

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‘Adults’ Creators Break Down Season 2’s Most Shocking Break-Ups and Hook-Ups

“In some ways, the love story of the season is Issa and Anton.”

I’m going to be honest, I usually dread acid trip episodes, but this one might have been my favorite episode of the season. It felt very much like a modern twist on Friends’ “The One Where Everyone Finds Out.”

SHAW: I’m so honored.

I really was really getting those vibes. I’m curious, did you intentionally either pay tribute to or try to subvert the “drug trip episode” when writing this?

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SHAW: That’s exactly right. We were really tickled by the idea of doing a drug episode where you never actually see any of them high, in the same way that often, with our friends, the pregame at the house is more fun than the actual party. We loved the idea of all the magic that happens in the half hour when everyone’s so tense waiting for the drugs to hit and all of that expectation. I feel like that anxiety leads to such weird behavior sometimes, and we knew that at the midpoint of the season, big feelings in this love triangle needed to come to a head, so it felt like such a natural time to do it and such a natural ticking time bomb to put on top of it. Everything has to be said before the acid hits. The raccoon has to be out of the house before the acid hits.

The other really fun challenge about the episode was trying to do something that’s basically in real time. The episode was written by Sanaz Toossi, who’s an absolutely brilliant Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright. She also wrote the dinner party episode last season, and we thought it had a similar spirit — it’s a very contained episode and something that we’re really watching play out without cuts to other plot lines in the same way that we do in other episodes. It was such a fun one to give her, and she just knocked it out of the park.

That’s obviously a huge episode. That’s when we have Issa and Paul Baker finally break up, and it’s exactly halfway through the season. I’m curious, why did it feel like the right time? Were there ever conversations about doing it earlier or doing it later, or was it always the midpoint?

KRONENGOLD: It always was the midpoint. I think the first half of the season, we wanted to kick the tires on this relationship that we sort of took for granted in the first season — and frankly that these two characters, Issa and Paul Baker, took for granted as well. In the first episode, we realize that there are trust issues. In the second episode, we realize that there are chemistry issues. And in the third episode, we realize that…

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SHAW: They’re not really picturing a future together.

KRONENGOLD: Exactly. And those are just cracks, right? They are cracks in the foundation of a relationship that I think one day would have exposed themselves, but we wanted to obviously explode it in a really big, climactic, Adults-y way, so it all does lead up to that fourth episode where the insecurities that have formed inside of their relationship and the lack of communication allow for this hugely chaotic schism. Anton is sort of in the wrong place at the wrong time — or, depending on how you look at it, at the right place at the right time.

SHAW: In Season 1, we see Paul Baker and Issa being really cute together, but we don’t interrogate that relationship. We don’t see that foundation, and we don’t have reason to believe that they’re going to spend the rest of their lives together. I think what felt very true to our friends and to the writers in the writers’ room as we were talking about it was, I think, sometimes on TV, people talk about things right away as soon as they happen. I’ll speak for myself: when I’m dealing with conflict, it usually takes a couple of weeks of marinating, maybe living in denial for a little bit, and hoping it goes away on its own, and then eventually realizing that these feelings are coming to the forefront. When we thought about Issa’s place in this love triangle, it didn’t feel truthful to either her character or to our friends to feel like she would immediately sit down and want to have a mature conversation with them about it. It felt much more truthful that it would simmer, and she’d be — for the first time — realizing things about her relationship and herself and what she wants. We loved the way that scene turned out where Paul Baker and Issa are sitting on the bed together, and they’re actually both telling each other why the relationship isn’t right for the other person, which, in some way, is the most aligned we’ve seen them in four episodes.

I really loved the decision to have her in that finale not be jealous and possessive. She was so supportive of Paul Baker and Anton, and I thought that was a really cool subversion. It felt very true to her and also this generation. I’m curious if we could talk about that choice to have her be the one to lead them to each other.

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SHAW: In some ways, the love story of the season is Issa and Anton. We always knew that they had this really special friendship, and they’re so fun to watch together. They really understand each other, and love each other, and call each other out more than other members of the group do with each other. We always knew that, because Anton is a character who has his walls up and often doesn’t allow himself to go for what he wants; he needs his best friend to tell him that it’s okay — not just because she’s Paul Baker’s ex, but because she knows him better than anyone, and she is often the source of his confidence and empowerment. We really wanted that moment when they’re holding hands, running down the street together with the music swelling underneath them, to be romantic in its own right. That’s their friendship love story coming to a head. That’s their happy ending.

I’m so excited to get to see Paul Baker and Anton finally explore what’s been building. It’s two seasons in, which is not the slowest burn, but in today’s day and age, it really does feel like one. Can you talk to me a little bit about what we might see from them in the future?

SHAW: One of the many reasons we are really excited and feel like we have a lot more stories to tell is that it’s so fun to watch two characters have this big, climactic moment together, but as we know, life gets complicated. We were very intentional about the fact that we don’t see them behind closed doors at the end of that episode — we see two other people instead. There are a lot of open doors left creatively to explore within that. These are two characters with very strong personalities, who have these big feelings but also exist in a friend group of five people. A lot can go right, and a lot can go wrong.

I love that you mentioned that we see two other people behind that door. I feel like that one was more unexpected, but the seeds have definitely been planted. There have definitely been little breadcrumbs of that. Can you tease whatever you can about that, too? That’s a really interesting twist that was more shocking but definitely checks out character-wise.

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SHAW: Thank you for saying that.

KRONENGOLD: It’s very different, right? We called it Schrödinger’s fuck in the writer’s room. [Laughs] We wanted to create the scenario where either couple could have been behind the door. We wanted to build to where your eye is on Anton and Paul Baker — that’s where we wanted to direct you. But when the door opens, because of the room swap that happened earlier in the season — we love that episode written by Sarah Naftalis, one of our EPs — one of the amazing sleights of hand that takes place is that Paul Baker and Samir now share a bedroom. Once we realized that we could take advantage of that and open the door to another couple, it was kind of too delicious to pass up. Billie and Samir, unlike Paul Baker and Anton, haven’t been thinking about this exactly. This hasn’t really been under the surface for them. What we’re finding is two people in very specific moments in their lives where this choice, as big and potentially reckless as it is, does fit in this current moment, but that does not mean it’s gonna make sense when they wake up in the morning. We want to play with that level of potential for mistakes, frankly.

SHAW: There are a lot of reasons you sleep with your best friend. Some of them are because you’re going to get married one day, and some of them are because you’re having really big feelings on a big, emotional night, and I think Billie and Samir don’t know which one this is right now. That, I think, is the question mark that we really want to leave the season on. There’s going to be a lot of big feelings to come that next morning, and whether or not they have the maturity to handle them is really anyone’s guess.

KRONENGOLD: I’ll add one quick thing, which is that Samir went through a breakup, of course, but more than just going through a breakup, he went through a breakup after realizing that being a boyfriend to someone is a big source of his self-worth. Billie, on the other hand, had to reckon with what it might be like to have her best friend, who she grew up with and has lived with, go away and realize the potential for that loss felt different than she expected.

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SHAW: The thing we talked about with Billie this season was the idea that she’s spent two seasons now really trying to look ahead and figure out what to change about her life. And I think it took the thread of her life changing to realize that this has actually been some of the best months of her life. She, maybe for the first time, has really been happy and really relaxed. I think the instinct to want to hold onto that however possible is a really great one, and Lucy played it so beautifully.

KRONENGOLD: I love when she turns to Paul Baker when she knows Anton is running home to tell him his feelings for him, and she says, “Forget what you’re supposed to do. What would make you happy?” That’s a very different Billie than we met in Season 1 or even the start of Season 2. Now, she’s thinking about what in this current moment makes her happy, even if it’s not the most responsible choice. And that’s how we find her in that bedroom.

I also really loved Issa and her fellow weird little guy, the librarian. Is there potential for that to turn into something, or are we to assume that’s a more temporary thing?

SHAW: I don’t know. All I’ll say is that Issa has done a lot of growing this season. We’ve learned a lot about her, and for the first time in some ways, we are seeing someone who matches her weird. We love Mia Fowler, who plays Margot, and we’d be really excited to explore what it would look like for Issa to be in a relationship with someone who is, in some ways, more of a mirror and a match for her.

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Oh, I would love that as well.

From Julia Fox to Jake Shane, ‘Adults’ Creators Spill on Those Season 2 Cameos

“She is an absolutely next-level, bar-none performer.”

Julia Fox giving a speech while Paul Baker sits next to her and listens in Adults.
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There were so many fun cameos this season. We had Julia Fox, we had Raven-Symoné, we had Jake Shane, we had the man-on-the-street interviewers, which killed me.

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SHAW: We were pinching ourselves that we got to do that.

Who was the most difficult for you guys to land?

SHAW: Logistically, planning that man-on-the-street day was awesome. We had one day to shoot all of those scenes in New York. It was a small crew, and we were running around with Jack Innanen. We had scheduled all of these interviewers back-to-back in, like, three square blocks of Manhattan, and then we ended up in Brooklyn for Julian Shapiro-Barnum’s last cameo. It was just so fun. It’s hard to act! I’m not the first person to say this, but I think even when you’re playing yourself, you really have to give into the naturalism of it, and then to interact against someone playing a character is a whole different skill set. And each and every one of those interviewers, I thought, did such a beautiful job. It was really so fun.

KRONENGOLD: And the lack of script guidance, I think we have to take personal responsibility for it because we were just like, “We’re on their turf, and they know their voice, and they know their show.” So we were the helpful writers being like, “Here’s a suggestion, but you should really just improvise,” and each and every one of those people all showed up so ready, so game. We got more than we knew what to do with.

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It made it feel so lived in. I love how much sense of place you get with that. Were there any cameos you tried for that didn’t work out this season?

SHAW: I’m gonna punt on the question, only because we’re keeping our fingers crossed.

KRONENGOLD: But yes, there’s one that comes to mind that we’re still determined to get. And the color that I’ll give is that it’s very fun to think of the show as a sandbox for Gen Z comedians and personalities to come in and either act in one of their first things, play themselves, or see an actor take on a totally different version of themselves. Shout-out to Gaten Matarazzo, who showed off such a different side of his comedic chops, which are so, so deep and seemingly endless. I think audiences are going to be really surprised to see what he brings. So that kind of cameo — which is beyond a cameo; it’s really a guest star — that’s always so exciting for us.

That leads right into my next question because Zosia Mamet was maybe my favorite guest star this season. It felt so fitting, obviously because of her involvement in Girls. Can you talk about her character? I’m obsessed with the mean therapist.

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KRONENGOLD: She transforms. For someone who plays such an iconic character, she is an absolutely next-level, bar-none performer, and she showed that in this finale. When she walks through that door, you don’t think of Shoshana. You really don’t. She is this force and this real threat to the group. She’s this really sophisticated woman who’s in town helping her dad with his campaign, but she is on the Upper East Side on her kids’ school board. When we, as fans of Girls, picture what Shoshana is up to today, it is not this person. Hats off to Zosia for coming in and, in a really limited amount of time, establishing this character that we’re really intrigued to see more of. I think audiences will be really intrigued to see more of her, too.

SHAW: Issa got her card. I’m just saying. And we know Issa and Anton do not have a therapist.

‘Adults’ Creators Talk Writing a K-Pop Song and Leaning Into Physical Comedy

“Our actors take funny so seriously, which is one of our favorite things about them.”

Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw on the set of Adults Season 2
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Oh my God, please. I need this so badly. I have to ask about “Hiccup (Body Go Crazy).” What were the conversations, and what was the process of writing a K-pop song like?

SHAW: We are such K-pop fans, and I think we had to disavow ourselves of the notion that we would be able to successfully write a K-pop song, but luckily, neither can Carly. We knew we wanted to learn more about Carly, Samir’s girlfriend, because a big part of Samir’s growth this season is learning about what he’s like as a boyfriend and as a supportive partner. We wanted to really challenge that and to throw a wrench in it and figure out that it’s easy to support your partner when you feel like they’re making good decisions, but what does it look like when you disagree with something they’re doing? Or if you want so badly to help them, but the right thing to do is say, “Hey, I think you’re making a mistake”? That was really, emotionally, where this episode came from.

And then when we got into the idea of it, the reason the episode’s called “Pop Girly” is because so many of our writers were realizing that we all know these people from different chapters of our lives who’ve had sort of an ill-advised singing career. Out of nowhere, they woke up one day, and it’s like, “Oh, okay. I guess you released a self-made music video now.” We really wanted to do that. We talked with our director, Paul Briganti, about those iconic movies where you hear one song over and over in terms of pieces of it. I love “That Thing You Do.” It’s one of my favorite movies. So the idea of picking a song that will become a little bit of an earworm, even if at first you’re laughing at it, was a really fun challenge.

KRONENGOLD: We worked with this composer, who was a genius and threaded this needle beautifully. The lyrics were written in the script by Rob Rosell, who wrote the episode, and expanded on by the room, but we really needed to rely on a composer who could thread that needle.

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SHAW: “Make it bad enough that Samir is doing the right thing by telling his girlfriend to stop.”

KRONENGOLD: “But not so bad that Carly is on some other plane of existence.”

SHAW: We needed it to be the kind of song that, if you wrote it, you would listen back and be like, “Is this maybe awesome?” But the answer is no.

KRONENGOLD: I just have to say, Rachel Marsh gives one of my favorite performances of the season. When the group is listening to the song for the first time, she could have played it super embarrassed. She could have played it beyond proud, delusionally proud. Instead, she plays it like, “Is this anything?” It was so vulnerable and funny, and you feel for her, and it kicks off a truly emotional arc where Samir then has to muster the courage to tell her, “No, this is nothing,” which is a hard conversation to have.

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My friend, who is also watching the screeners, and I were like, “This is coming for our Spotify Wrapped.”

KRONENGOLD: We should release it.

SHAW: I want to release that song.

KRONENGOLD: We’re proud of it.

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The show is very stunt-heavy, from Samir chasing Issa around with the injection to Anton swinging Billie around at the club. Can you talk about integrating physical comedy? I feel like that’s sort of a lost art in a lot of comedy shows today.

KRONENGOLD: We are suckers for physical comedy. It makes us laugh so hard. You’re totally right that you don’t see it a lot on TV, but some of our favorite sitcom moments are Monica wrestling Rachel to get the eyedrops in her eyes or Leslie Knope and the cast of Parks and Rec on the ice. It’s deeply rewatchable. It gets us every single time. And luckily, we have performers on our show who are really, really funny physical comedians. I don’t think it was part of our original conception of the show, honestly, but watching the way that Owen moves through the world and sort of embodies his bits and his physicality, watching Amita be this modern-day pratfall master, and Malik — shout out to him — there’s always a bit with Malik. He does this really hilarious bit that is “ape pretending to be human.” They inspire us with their physicality on set. It’s harder to envision it for a character when you’re first writing a pilot because you’re mostly focused on their voice, but the more we get to know them, the more we get to write to their wild physical attributes.

Lucy’s a hilarious stunt dancer. In Episode 2, she kills us with the crazy dancing she does when she’s trying — and obviously failing — to impress these younger kids. Jack with Paul Baker and the Baker dichotomy with this secret persona. He completely transforms his physicality when he goes into this bro mode, so we had a lot of fun playing with that this season, too.

SHAW: It’s funny because physical comedy can often feel quite big, but to do it really well takes so much practice and intentionality, and our actors take funny so seriously, which is one of our favorite things about them. All of the beats of that injection montage and the later moments where Samir’s chasing Issa around the house and tackling her with the needle — we worked with wonderful stunt coordinators to choreograph every bit of it, but they also found things on their own. There was a certain point where our assistant director had to ask them to stop practicing off to the side. They were so worried that someone was going to get hurt because they were just taking each other down over and over like siblings wrestling. They were doing such a great job, and we think it really shows in the final product.

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There are the big physical moments, but also something like the moment in “Raccoon,” where Billie and Samir decide that they’re not going to futz, and then we watch both of them immediately turn and walk into various rooms to meddle in their friends’ love lives. One thing we knew in the structure of the story was we wanted them to sort of mirror each other’s physicality. We wanted Billie and Samir to have a similar walk, which we called the futz walk, so we got together with Lucy and Malik before we started shooting that day and basically said, “Look, we have some ideas of the emotion that comes behind this. You’ve made a pact, and you feel a little bad about it, and you’re really trying to move quickly, but you’re trying to act casual and do it in a very intentional way. But really, what matters to us is just that you guys are doing the same thing, so can you work together and come up with something that works for both of you that feels true to both of your characters?” And they came up with the futz walk, and it’s one of our favorite moments of the season.

Adults Season 2 is now streaming on Hulu.


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May 28, 2025

Showrunner

Ben Kronengold, Rebecca Shaw

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Directors

Anu Valia

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Writers

Sarah Naftalis, Allie Levitan

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