FX‘s Adults is getting a prequel.
The FX comedy will release, later this summer but prior to the August drop of season two, a standalone episode, titled “Marathon Day,” that will introduce the friend group and provide the origin story for Jack Innanen‘s Paul Baker.
The full episode, written by series creators Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw and directed by Jonathan Krisel, will be available on Friday, July 31, on FXX and Hulu at 1 p.m. ET/10 a.m. PT and will also receive a limited release on Hulu’s YouTube channel and FX’s TikTok and Instagram channels.
The episode also premiered at the Tribeca Festival in New York on Thursday night.
“We’re so excited for the opportunity to show fans how this friend group came to be,” Kronengold and Shaw said in a statement. “We love a good origin story, and we can’t wait for you to see where the radioactive spider bit Paul Baker.”
Adults, which received acclaim for its first season released last summer, follows a twenty-something group of friends in New York trying to navigate love, work, friendship and family all while living together in Samir’s (Malik Elassal) childhood home. In addition to Innanen and Elassal, Adults stars Lucy Freyer, Amita Rao and Owen Thiele.
The Adults prequel is the latest such standalone episode released for an FX comedy after The Bear last month surprise dropped an hourlong prequel episode “Gary,” following Richie (Ebon Moss-Bachrach) and Mikey (Jon Bernthal) on a trip to Indiana.
Adults is set to return for season two on Thursday, Aug. 27. The full eight-episode second season will be available on Hulu and FXX on demand on Aug. 27, with two episodes airing each week on FXX.
FX shared the following synopsis for Adults season two: “Over eight episodes, the housemates tackle a new set of real-world questions. What if the 20-year-old who inherited your fake ID is cooler than you ever were, and younger than you’ll ever be again? How do you explain to your friends that you actually love your boring office job? Why does being around your family make you regress into your worst self? And how do you ask for things to change, when you also need everything to stay the same? Together, the friends weave intricate webs of multi-player strategy just to avoid hurting someone else’s feelings. They invent elaborate workarounds for problems they’re too afraid to face head-on. It’s not so much that they keep learning the same lessons – it’s that they keep finding new ways to make mistakes. But the one thing they consistently get right: showing up for each other. “
The show is executive produced by Kronengold, Shaw, Nick Kroll, Sarah Naftalis, Jonathan Krisel, Alicia Van Couvering and Rob Rosell and is produced by FX Productions.
