With news that the new episodes of 'Pen15' with be the last, Alan Sepinwall bids farewell to the weirdest, sweetest, saddest, funniest show about middle school
This news only went public in apublished earlier this week, as I was in the midst of bingeing screeners of what would now be the concluding episodes. That sense of finality isn’t really palpable in the new installments, other than a lovely, wistful, perfect closing scene featuring the two BFFs in a contemplative mood.
Important themes and stories carry over from when last we saw the girls. Maya continues to wrestle with her budding sexuality, going through elaborate and secret masturbation rituals one minute, then loudly trying to reframe herself as still a little kid the next. The stress of her parents’ divorce, plus a social studies lesson about the Holocaust, sends Anna searching for a deeper meaning in life, and eventually joining her church’s youth group.
But it’s always worth it to go back. As both actors and writers, Erskine and Konkle are so smart about the nuances of this moment in kids’ lives. They can still mine that knowledge for big laughs, like a surreal sequence where Maya has a bad reaction to ADD meds, or a disgusting joke about Anna’s pet hamster. But, to the end,In another understated meta-joke, a girl in Anna’s youth group tells her, “You talk like you’re 40, kind of.
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