Inside “Adults” Showrunner Stefani Robinson On Crafting a Comedy About Growing Up (Or Not)

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When #StefaniRobinson, Emmy-nominated writer and executive producer (Atlanta, What We Do in the Shadows), first read the pilot for #Adults, she didn’t expect to feel something so familiar. “By the end of it, I really felt like I was the sixth character,” she recalls. “There was a coziness, a closeness.”

Adults, the new comedy series created by The Tonight Show writers Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, and co-executive produced by Nick Kroll, follows five 20-somethings stumbling their way through early adulthood. While the setup — a group of friends figuring out life — might seem familiar, Robinson leans into that.

“I was actually attracted to the show because of its conventionality,” she says. “We weren’t setting out to reinvent the wheel, but to explore the wheel. These types of shows work because they feel like home to many people.”

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