What if your 'interesting' friends were the only interesting thing about you?
60 minSeason 1 • Episode 1
LatestBased on the Meg Wolitzer's novel about a group of friends who meet at an arts camp when they're 15 in 1974. The series chronicles their relationships throughout the next three decades dealing with the great expectations of youth juxtaposed with the realities life hands you as you get older.
Based on the Meg Wolitzer's novel about a group of friends who meet at an arts camp when they're 15 in 1974. The series chronicles their relationships throughout the next three decades dealing with the great expectations of youth juxtaposed with the realities life hands you as you get older.
Acting
Lauren Ambrose anchors decades of quiet disappointment beautifully.
Production
Seamless era-hopping from 1974 to 2000s without costume-show vibes.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This pilot was produced for Amazon but never ordered to series, leaving viewers with one maddeningly incomplete chapter. The novel spans 500+ pages; this crams 30 years into 60 minutes.
The 'Interestings' name itself satirizes how art camps in the 1970s cultivated precocious self-importance that Wolitzer argues broke a generation when reality arrived.
