Browsing: Adults

Growing up and the pressure to have everything figured out can be overwhelming. 

This week’s Out-of-Touch guide takes us from the frozen wastelands of ancient Scandinanostalgia and the peculiar love Gen Z has for clowns

Gen Z has finally got its “Friends” style hangout sitcom with FX’s “Adults.” The comedy series has quickly cemented itself as the beacon of Gen Z comedy, with its second season receiving a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes critic score. In August, TVLine hailed “Adults” star Lucy Freyer as the performer of the week. With the brevity…

Replaying childhood games can stir powerful nostalgia, but the magic often fades because memory, identity, attention and gaming skills change with age.

For a generation that spends much of its day switching between screens, meetings, and notifications, leisure is beginning to look surprisingly old-school. Since there is barely anything to call yours at work, adults are owning their hobbies, taking it seriously, but at the same time, steering away from the pressure of being perfect at it.…

FX’s emergent ensemble sitcom “Adults” is the best attempt at capturing “the Gen-Z spirit” executed in recent years. The second season aired on Aug. 27 with eight episodes and one special episode set prior to the start of season one.

This week’s Out-of-Touch Guide explains everything from a dance trend that anyone with a face can do to which social media trends are leading to arrests.Put on your face’s dancing shoes and let’s get going!

While Adults is making waves with its own significant impact on pop culture, Season 2 is filled with fun nods to beloved pieces of media, whether it’s Billie (Lucy Freyer) and Issa’s (Amita Rao) Survivor nights or the latter’s “I Dreamed a Dream” performance in “Pop Girlie.”

This week’s trip into the culture of young people is filled with bad ideas and stupidity, but it’s that specific kind of stupidity that’s the sole purview of youth—unserious, frequently baffling, but ultimately harmless. Old people are just as stupid, but our stupidity has consequences. Debating whether ditching basic hygiene to be more attractive is…

In most rom-coms, a romantic gesture looks like running through an airport to make one last declaration of love, or writing a yearning letter every day for a year. In Adults, it looks like saying “cunt” on every man-on-the-street interview show you can find.