![]() ![]() ![]() Maya and Anna’s immaturity and (attempts at) maturity are embraced equally: The girls are proud of their PG-rated dalliance, but they deal with the fallout – as well as other issues requiring a level of sophistication they understandably don’t possess quite yet – in distinctively childlike ways. PEN15 does the same, but it aims to find a sweet spot between comedic and dramatic extremes. The land of Y.A.-themed pop culture is littered with versions of this plotline, and recent dramas like the cringe-inducing Eighth Grade and the unjustifiably ridiculed Cuties have offered thoughtful and progressive examinations of how young girls are simultaneously encouraged to grow up fast and scolded for doing so. The gossip backfires on the girls at school, they are slut-shamed and given a nickname based on the dismissive (and false) description Brandt tells his guy friends about what he did with them at the dance. When Brandt rebuffs Maya at a pool party in the first of the new episodes and insists their closet encounter never happened, a despondent Maya and Anna proceed to go around to each of their classmates and divulge the details to prove that it did. Of course crushes rarely stay secret for long among loose-lipped tweens, and this is doubly true for any experimenting they do with one another.
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