PEN15

About PEN15

Middle school as it really happened. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle star in this adult comedy, playing versions of themselves as thirteen-year-old outcasts in the year 2000, surrounded by actual thirteen-year-olds, where the best day of your life can turn into your worst with the stroke of a gel pen.

PEN15 is a comedy series made for Hulu. Its 2 seasons and 25 episodes aired between February 2019 and December 2021. That is around 13 episodes a season.

Maya Erskine leads the cast as Maya Ishii-Peters, Anna Konkle as Anna Kone, Mutsuko Erskine as Yuki Ishii-Peters, and Taylor Nichols as Curtis Kone. Production companies include AwesomenessTV, OPE Partners, and Party Over Here.

Shelv files it under childhood friends, whimsical, middle school, and puberty. It streams on Hulu in the United States.

Big Mouth, Nagi-Asu: A Lull in the Sea, and SANDA make useful companions to PEN15. It scores 8.2 out of 10 from 338 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-MA rating.