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'Pen15' Is Coming Back with a Special Animated Episode Next Month

'Pen15' Is Coming Back with a Special Animated Episode Next Month


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Spoilers ahead.

The second season of Pen15 premiered last September on Hulu, but there's still more to come. While the first seven episodes are now streaming, seven more will arrive on a still-unknown date, supposedly in 2021.

The mid-season break was likely caused by the coronavirus pandemic, as the Pen15 team didn't complete shooting before lockdowns began. "We were like a week and a half short of being done filming 15 episodes," star and writer Anna Konkle told BAZAAR.com last year. "So fortunately we finished filming this new season that's out, but we didn't finish everything."

This first half ends on a heartbreaking note after Maya Ishii-Peters (Maya Erskine) gets dumped by her boyfriend and school play costar, Gabe (Dylan Gage), while Anna Kone (Konkle) must choose which parent she wants to live with after their divorce.

The countdown to Season 2 part two is on, but in the meantime, we've gathered what we know so far about the next batch of Pen15 episodes.

A special animated episode is coming.

Season 2, Episode 8, titled "Jacuzzi," will be an animated installment following Maya and Anna on a family trip to Florida with the latter's dad. A synopsis from Hulu says, "On vacation with Curtis, Anna and Maya are introduced to new crippling insecurities. The girls try to ignore them, but a mystical turn makes their self-doubt impossible to forget."

The episode, written by Konkle, will arrive on Hulu on Friday, August 27.

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Photo credit: Hulu
Photo credit: Hulu

Incoming episodes will explore more mature themes.

Konkle and Erskine previously shared with BAZAAR.com what to expect of Maya and Anna's journeys in the rest of Season 2.

"I think they land on an identity and they have each other, and [they think], 'We are going to own this. We don't need everybody else's approval anymore. And we're going to be even more mature and meet some older people,'" Konkle said.

"It gets more mature, but tonally, I'd say we kind of go back to Season 1 a little bit more," Erskine added. "Lighter. Darker, but lighter."

Photo credit: Erica Parise/Hulu
Photo credit: Erica Parise/Hulu

"They're experiencing more firsts again," Konkle continued. "There were a ton of firsts in the first season. This block of seven episodes, it's the blow back from all the firsts. It's like, 'Who am I? What is this? Am I a teen? Am I a kid?' And then this next leg is like, 'Okay, I'm a teen. Here are my firsts. Now I can handle anything.'"

Maya and Anna "get a little in over their head" though.

Expect more adult actors.

As the content gets more mature, more adult actors will be used. "We don't want to do everything R-rated with real 13-year-olds, no matter if it's with body doubles or how we shoot it," Konkle assured BAZAAR. "We're going to cast adults."

This story has been updated.

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