TV-MASynopsis
PEN15 (2019), Season 1 is the seventh-grade comedy you can watch online on iFILM — ten episodes set in the year 2000, with a twist. Maya Erskine and Anna Konkle, grown adults, play themselves at thirteen, surrounded by real middle schoolers.
It opens on the first day of school, where two best-friend outcasts get a wave of attention they never asked for. From there it's the full catalogue of turn-of-the-millennium dread: the girls who smoke behind the building, a first AIM screenname, a humiliating nickname, a sleepover that curdles, a sweaty first dance the two of them attend mid-argument. The season nails how the best day of your life flips to the worst with one stroke of a gel pen — and how a thirteen-year-old friendship survives the fallout anyway.
It's shot raw and often unbearably awkward, and that awkwardness is the whole point: adult actresses in kid bodies make the cringe land harder. If you grew up in the early 2000s, it hits home. Stream PEN15 Season 1 online on iFILM.
10 episodes
S1·E1First Day
It’s the first day of seventh grade in the year 2000. School rejects, Anna and Maya, get a lot of unexpected attention.
S1·E2Miranda
Maya and Anna become fascinated with the mature girls in their class who smoke. They are faced with the age-old question: stay home and play pretend or go out and do drugs?
S1·E3Ojichan
Maya feels a tickle down there which becomes kind of an addiction, distracting her from her best friend who really needs her.
S1·E4Solo
Trailview’s Night of Amazing Music is coming up. Anna hopes to win Alex’s heart with a classical aria while Maya is consumed with a lie.
S1·E5Community Service
There’s an exclusive fashion show at the local nursing home. Somehow Anna and Maya make it in, but feelings of inadequacy lead them down a shady path.
S1·E6Posh
Maya gets a questionable nickname during a school project. Anna goes along with it, resulting in a test of their friendship and identities.
S1·E7AIM
Maya and Anna get their very first AIM screennames and their social world opens up. Maybe too much.
S1·E8Wild Things
It’s a viewing party to watch the newly released VHS movie, Wild Things. The night gets sexy and Anna and Maya try to keep up.
S1·E9Anna Ishii-Peters
Anna gets to sleep over at Maya’s house on a school night and can’t wait to become part of the Ishii-Peter family. But things turn as Anna gets a little too comfortable.
S1·E10Dance
It’s the night of their first school dance but Anna and Maya are on bad terms. They’ll have to navigate this unfamiliar terrain set to billboard hits, by themselves.
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