
Adults(2025)
A group of twenty-somethings in New York trying to be good people, despite being neither "good" nor "people" yet.


“Older not wiser.”
All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they're ready to be parents?

Rafe Spall
Jason

Esther Smith
Nikki

Scarlett Rayner
Princess
Cooper Turner
Tyler
Trying is a comedy series that first aired in 2020 exploring themes of adoption, parenthood, cynical, aggressive, arrogant, authoritarian. Created by Chris Sussman, it stars Rafe Spall, Esther Smith, Scarlett Rayner. All Nikki and Jason want is a baby—the one thing they can't have. So they decide to adopt. With their dysfunctional friends, screwball families, and chaotic lives, will the adoption panel agree that they're ready to be parents?
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