Adults Is Coming Back for a Third Season on FX and Hulu
FX and Hulu have renewed the ensemble comedy Adults for a third season, and it will be the show's longest yet. The third season will run 16 episodes, double the eight episodes each of the first two seasons had, according to Variety. The renewal was reported on 11 November 2026.
A renewal means a network or streaming service has decided to order another run of a show. Renewals do not always come, so a yes is news in itself. Adults first launched in 2025.
The show's creators, Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, are also its showrunners, which means they lead the writers' room and oversee the scripts. Both have signed an overall deal with FX Productions, the studio behind the series. An overall deal is a contract that keeps a creative team working with one studio across future projects.
The cast includes Malik Elassal, Lucy Freyer, Jack Innanen, Amita Rao and Owen Thiele. Nick Kroll, Sarah Naftalis, Jonathan Krisel, Alicia Van Couvering and Rob Rosell are executive producers, the people who oversee a production's money and direction on the business side.
FX said that viewing of Season 2 on Hulu and Disney+ worldwide was up 60 per cent over Season 1 across its first five weeks. The network also said international viewing of Season 2 rose 100 per cent.
Before Season 2 arrived, FX released a standalone special called Marathon Day in July 2026. A standalone special is a one-off episode that sits outside the main season, and it gave viewers a way back into the story before the new episodes started.
Critics have also weighed in. Across both seasons, Adults holds an 88 per cent critical approval rating on Rotten Tomatoes, the review site that counts the share of professional reviews it classes as positive.
For the people behind the show, a third season means more scripts to write, more episodes to shoot and a longer run of work for the cast and crew. The renewal also keeps the writers and producers on the same studio that has backed the series since its launch.
