FX’s Adults is an ensemble comedy series about a group of twenty-somethings in New York trying to be good people, despite being neither “good” nor “people” yet. “Samir” (Malik Elassal), “Billie” (Lucy Freyer), “Paul Baker” (Jack Innanen), “Issa” (Amita Rao) and “Anton” (Owen Thiele) are five friends crashing together in Samir’s childhood home, where they share their meals, anxieties and, occasionally, toothbrushes.

Created by Ben Kronengold & Rebecca Shaw (The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon), the show puts a slightly heightened twist on the wins, losses and humiliations of starting out in the adult world. Whether they’re trying to get ahead at work, navigating the healthcare system, hosting a dinner party or dating in the age of Find My Friends, the group is finding that nothing about the real world is simple, and all their best intentions tend to make things worse.

Over the eight-episode season, the housemates tackle capital-R Responsibility to varying degrees of success. A sweetheart and an overthinker, “Samir” struggles to fix the problems around him—from his parents’ boiler to his perpetual unemployment to his love life. His childhood best friend “Billie” worries that she might have peaked too soon as she tries to find a career—and life—track. Confident and unapologetic, “Issa” strives to prove that you can be both a serious person and know whom to flash to get into a rave. “Anton,” everyone’s instant best friend, struggles with boundaries, both social and romantic. And “Paul Baker,” the newest to the group, is an easy-going charmer who makes himself an integral part of the household despite not knowing where anything goes.

These friends are works-in-progress, brimming with bad ideas and whatever their latest “theory of adulthood” might be. But there’s one thing they consistently get right: showing up for each other.

FX’s Adults is executive produced by Ben Kronengold & Rebecca Shaw, Nick Kroll (Big Mouth, The League), Stefani Robinson (Atlanta, What We Do in the Shadows), Sarah Naftalis (What We Do in the Shadows) and Jonathan Krisel (Baskets, English Teacher). Alicia Van Couvering (Tiny Furniture, Drinking Buddies) also serves as an executive producer under Kroll’s Good At Business banner. Adults is produced by FX Productions.

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No one prepared them for this.