![]() Portraying versions of themselves as 13-year-old best friends Anna Kone and Maya Ishii-Peters, the thirtysomething series co-creators are surrounded by teenage actors playing their classmates. Thankfully, Anna Konkle and Maya Erskine do not share this view as they return for the second season of the boundary-pushing, Emmy-nominated middle school “traumedy” PEN15. Where would Maya be without Anna, or vice versa? It’s a topic that the show delves into a number of times as hormones, the possibility of popularity and boys threaten to tear the pair apart, but really, there’s nothing that can break the love between two girlfriends.The thought of reliving the awkward growing pains of early adolescence is probably unappealing to most. The best part of ‘Pen15?’ That indescribable bond that girls develop as friends. Almost as unforgettable as the show, this gnarly ‘do is impossible to miss. If there was a way that a haircut could be preserved in a museum, we’d want to see this bowlcut there. But, the reason for our overachieving? For our parents, of course! When Maya turns a brief drum part in an orchestral arrangement into a minutes-long affair complete with an unforgettable finish, it’s hard to not feel the pangs of dying to impress. It’s just so… pink!Īny Asian kid worth their rice has probably participated in band or orchestra-if they weren’t a part of the robotics team. But it’s a little bit easier with the help of an ultra sexy thong that you stole from a classmate (and can’t seem to give back). ![]() It’s even harder when you’re trying to be an attractive woman, and you’re really just a girl in middle school. We won’t admit that we played with dolls in our tweens, but… do you wanna come over and play Sylvania after work?ĭon’t even try to tell us that you didn’t have at least one questionable online crush at some point in your early internet career.įiguring out how to be a woman is hard work. It’s this awful, yet disturbingly perfect combination of filial piety and pure primal impulse that sums up what it’s like to discover the wonders of the body as a young, Asian American girl. Okay, you knew we had to do it to you, but there’s no way we could start this list off without talking about the infamous masturbation episode. Here are our favorite Maya moments from ‘Pen15’: The show allows viewers to take a nostalgic trip down memory lane, with all the grossness and insecurities of middle school intact. The fact that the actresses are adults allows them to explore topics that would be off-limits to their young co-stars, lest the crew incur a plethora of criminal charges. The show is based loosely on their own lives (Erskine’s real father is a jazz drummer, not a drummer in a Steely Dan cover band) and covers everything from periods to first crushes to female masturbation. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle’s show “Pen15” created mass waves in the TV world for its frank, hilarious portrayals of those awkward tween years through the lens of two young girls, Maya Ishii-Peters (Erskine) and Anna Kone (Konkle) living in the 2000s. ![]() What better way to revisit the blunder years than with the help of two 30 plus-year-old women? Just the thought conjures up smells and images that you probably wish you had kept tamped down. ![]()
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