{"id":1515162,"date":"2026-06-12T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=9984dce61fbeebf5a2d07196b73cfa5f"},"modified":"2026-06-12T10:36:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:36:31","slug":"adults-dropping-surprise-prequel-episode-ahead-of-second-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1515162","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Adults&#8217; dropping surprise prequel episode ahead of second season"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/5341b683e6ec331feb29c394e2846091.jpg\" alt\/><figcaption>(l-r) Owen Thiele as Anton, Lucy Freyer as Billie, Malik Elassal as Samir, Amita Rao as Issa, Jack Innanen as Paul Baker in surprise prequel episode of 'Adults.' (Courtesy of FX)<\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The FX comedy series <em>Adults<\/em>&nbsp;is dropping a surprise prequel episode.<\/p><p>The show screened the episode, titled \u201cMarathon Day,\u201d to a sold-out crowd at the Tribeca Festival Thursday night. It focuses on the origin story of Jack Innanen\u2019s character Paul Baker.<\/p><p>\u201cWe\u2019re so excited for the opportunity to show fans how this friend group came to be,\u201d said series creators Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, who also wrote the episode. \u201cWe love a good origin story, and we can\u2019t wait for you to see where the radioactive spider bit Paul Baker.\u201d<\/p><p>The episode will be available to watch on July 31 on FX and Hulu at 1 p.m ET\/10 a.m. PT.<\/p><p><em>Adults<\/em>, about a group of twenty-somethings living in New York, debuts its second season on Aug. 27.<\/p><p>Meanwhile, Innanen revealed on the Tribeca red carpet that he turned down a role on the highly anticipated second season of <em>Heated Rivalry<\/em>. He was rumored to be in the running for the characters of either Troy Barrett or Wyatt Hayes.<\/p><p>While he didn\u2019t say which role he was offered,&nbsp;the Canadian actor told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@cbsmornings\/video\/7650299311112146190?embed_source=121374463%2C121468991%2C121439635%2C121749182%2C121433650%2C121404359%2C121497414%2C122349556%2C122221973%2C122122240%2C121351166%2C121811500%2C121960941%2C122122244%2C122122243%2C122122242%2C121487028%2C121679410%2C122258714%2C121331973%2C120811592%2C120810756%2C121885509%3Bnull%3Bembed_blank&amp;refer=embed&amp;referer_url=www.justjared.com%2F2026%2F06%2F12%2Fjack-innanen-talks-turning-down-heated-rivalry-season-2-role-it-didnt-work-out%2F&amp;referer_video_id=7650299311112146190\"  rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>CBS Mornings<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> \u201cI think it\u2019s such an incredible show, and it didn\u2019t work out. But I love Jacob [Tierney], I love everyone involved. I\u2019m just, I\u2019m excited to see what they do for the second season.\u201d<\/p><p><em>Disney is the parent company of FX, Hulu and ABC News.<\/em><\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(l-r) Owen Thiele as Anton, Lucy Freyer as Billie, Malik Elassal as Samir, Amita Rao as Issa, Jack Innanen as Paul Baker in surprise prequel episode of &#8216;Adults.&#8217; (Courtesy of FX)The FX comedy series Adults&nbsp;is dropping a surprise prequel episode.Th&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":233,"featured_media":1515167,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/5341b683e6ec331feb29c394e2846091.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1451],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1515162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-entertainment-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 15:18:08","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/5341b683e6ec331feb29c394e2846091.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/233"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1515162"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1515168,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515162\/revisions\/1515168"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1515167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1515162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1515162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1515162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}