Adults Season 2 is the hardest Ive laughed at a sitcom this year

In its first season, Adults established a strong foundation as a delightful hangout sitcom.

In its second season, it builds something truly great.

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28, 2026) The bones of the show are still very much the same.

Created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw , Adults continues to follow the misadventures of housemates Samir (Malik Elassal), Billie (Lucy Freyer), Paul Baker (Jack Innanen), Issa (Amita Rao), and Anton (Owen Thiele) as they navigate what it truly means to be grown-up.

While they often struggle with adulthood, Adults has faced no such growing pains.

Season 2 is sharper and more self-assured than the last, with its already strong ensemble operating at the top of their game.

Adults Season 2 levels up without growing up.

Owen Thiele, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, and Amita Rao in "Adults." Credit: Michael Gibson / FX Adults swings for the fences this season, going big on everything from cringe comedy to screwball farces.

Examples of the former include Billie's quest to scrub a compromising photo from social media, or Anton's attempts to save his job after an intergenerational misunderstanding at work.

Both storylines exemplify Adults ' leads' tendency to trip over their own feet in ways that are somehow as endearing as they are tough to watch.

The show's more screwball tendencies shine in the season's strongest outing, an installment centered on an acid trip that goes awry when a raccoon wanders through the house.

Suddenly, what you think will be a predictable episode involving psychedelic shenanigans becomes something much greater: a ticking time bomb in which the raccoon must be dealt with before the acid kicks in.

Playing out in real time, the episode is a madcap countdown that manages to distill the friend group's complicated web of relationships to their purest forms, then upend the dynamic entirely.