If You Loved 'Friends,' You'll Adore This Underrated FX Comedy About Modern Friendship
You will soon feel like these characters are your own friends.
In 2025, FX released Adults, a comedy about five friends in their early twenties who live together in one of their childhood homes in New York.
The show offers an honest portrayal of a generation still trying to find itself and its voice. Here's why Adults deserves your attention.
What Is 'Adults' About?
Samir has transformed his family's New Jersey home into a welcoming haven for friends. Several people live there: there's Billie, a childhood friend of Samir's who is facing an identity crisis, Anton, who is responsible yet overly friendly, and Issa, who is spirited but narcissistic.
Issa convinces the group to let her boyfriend, a Canadian immigrant, move in – for some reason, everyone refers to him by his full name, Paul Baker.
The series follows these young adults as they navigate the challenges of adulthood: a lack of money, difficulty finding work, and uncertainty about how to achieve their dreams.
'Adults' Is an Honest and Charming Portrayal of a Generation
The key feature of Adults is that its creators, Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, are barely older than their characters, so they know exactly what they're talking about.
Unlike stereotypical sketches about the TikTok generation, the series shows that the fundamental problems facing today's twenty-somethings are timeless: a lack of money, the struggle to find a job, and uncertainty about how to achieve one's dreams.
Here, however, the creators interpret and comment on these anxieties using the language of Gen Z.
The characters are not stereotypes, but rather, real and charming people and the show offers enough dynamic relationships and amusing situations to keep you engaged.
'Adults' Is More Than Just Your Typical Sitcom
Adults is a series that is sure to find its audience, whether among the characters' peers who are equally baffled by how the world works or among an older demographic who are nostalgic for their own carefree youth.
The show is reminiscent of Friends and How I Met Your Mother, albeit adapted for modern realities. Adults' main issue is perhaps its derivative quality: while watching, one constantly recalls more cutting-edge or relevant comedies.
On the other hand, this lack of a distinct identity could serve as a meta-commentary on the generation itself.
The creators are clearly hampered by the modern industry standard of eight twenty-minute episodes, a runtime that in the era of classic sitcoms amounted to barely a third of a season – it's barely enough time to get to know the characters.
Nevertheless, Adults stands as one of the most honest and funny portraits of a generation still trying to find its way.
What Did Viewers Think of 'Adults'?
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On IMDb, Adults has a score of 7.4/10.
Where to Watch 'Adults'?
Adults is available to stream on Hulu.
