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Adults introduces its viewers to a disorganized, chaotic household of adults navigating s*x, careers, and identity in modern-day Queens. The series opens aboard a subway where discomfort quickly turns into confrontation and performance, unraveling the social and moral boundaries of its characters.
FX's Adults doesn't ease into its themes - it throws its characters, and the audience, directly into the fire.
An outrageous train encounter sets the tone in Adults
From its first minutes, Adults makes it clear that this isn't your standard coming-of-age tale. On a subway ride, Billie, Samir, Anton, Issa, and Paul - friends sharing a house that belongs to Samir's vacationing parents - witness a disturbing public act.
As a man openly pleasures himself, Issa retaliates by mirroring him, hoping to shame or disrupt his behavior. Instead, the event snowballs into a viral chaos, filmed by strangers, misunderstood by her friends, and twisted by the moment's ambiguity.
Issa later worries she overreacted, but the train scene becomes more than a shock. It exposes the messy complexity of each friend's instincts and triggers, laying the foundation of their dynamic dysfunction.
Billie chases a “window” while Samir spirals into moral panic
The second act of Adults delves into personal ambition and guilt. Billie's envy ignites when Kyle, an acquaintance, gains fame for sharing his story of workplace abuse. Her workplace intends to spotlight him, and her friends encourage her to leverage the heightened awareness of abuse and harassment - what they call a "window" - to advance her career.
Despite doubts, Billie gives in, confronting her boss and, in a panicked follow-up, ends up borderline threatening him, a moment that underscores just how far she's willing to go.
Meanwhile, Samir, rattled by a conversation about unintentional harm, reaches out to exes to validate his decency. One of them drops a bombshell: he had s*x with her while she was passed out. It's a revelation that devastates him, kicking off a quest for absolution that only leads to more unease.
Medical mayhem and misplaced authority
After stressing about her career move backfiring, Billie finds herself in the hospital with rectal bleeding and must undergo a colonoscopy. She names Samir as her medical proxy, banking on his calm demeanor to handle decisions.
However, when he learns she might not have insurance due to possibly getting fired, panic takes over. However, Samir still insists that the doctors run every test imaginable immediately, crossing professional and personal boundaries in an effort to help.
When Billie wakes, the results aren't just medical, they're financial. She learns that she never had insurance in the first place, and the extra tests Samir green-lit will cost her $15,000. Ironically, all of this stemmed from Samir wanting to feel like 'a good guy', and it ends with Billie actually being jobless, broke and blindsided.
Miscommunication and dismissal hit a boiling point
Issa, long frustrated that her boyfriend Paul Baker isn't welcome in the house, feels invisible to her closest friends. Despite voicing his desire to move in multiple times, no one remembers it - until Anton casually suggests it again, as if it's the first time.
It's a gut punch. Anton and Samir dismissively entertain the idea, having somehow forgotten every previous conversation Issa initiated. Her marginalization reaches its peak, and even a cathartic church visit offers no solace.
Yet, when Billie learns she's been fired, it's Issa - despite feeling overlooked - who steps up to break the news gently. Her quiet emotional labor becomes the only mature gesture in an otherwise self-absorbed group.
Adults starts off with deliberate provocation, blending dark humor with emotional implosion. Its characters are selfish, impulsive, and confused, yet the show doesn't ask you to love them - it just asks you to watch. With Billie facing financial ruin, Samir confronting the truth about himself, and Issa grasping for acknowledgement, Adults makes one thing clear: growing up isn't just messy, its also catastrophic.
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