Adults

This award-winning and hugely popular Finnish comedy is about two best friends in their twenties figuring out life in the bizarre middle ground of childhood, adolescence, and adulthood. The story is centered around the chronically jealous coffee-shop owner Oona and her best friend Arttu (a DJ/creator/gig worker/ artist/whatever). Together the two party, cry, grapple with heartache, and embrace the moments of gratitude in between. In the third and final season of the series, Oona and Arttu try to navigate the post-pandemic world with its pressures to succeed and on-off romantic relationships. In addition to working out crises, the two dance until the morning, kiss around and celebrate Helsinki’s best hot girl summer. The series proposes a different idea to what growing up is: it is not necessarily about taking responsibility or setting up a family, but instead learning to sit in the discomfort and uncertainty of this random life we all live. We all regress and progress — no matter how old or young we are. The world of Adults is also a sort of utopia in which we would like to live: a world in which there aren‘t any derogatory jokes, where grown men can cry, and where the most mundane and basic things can be as important as the big turning points in life.