Adults Needs More Room to Grow

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In the seventh episode of Adults, FX’s new sitcom about a group of roommates navigating early-20s adulthood in Queens, there’s a withering joke about one of the show’s main characters that doubles as an inadvertent roast of the show itself. Annabelle, a persnickety teenager visiting New York for an out-of-state abortion, is underwhelmed by the company of the two roommates who, through a convoluted series of events, find themselves tasked with ushering her through the procedure, and she lashes out.