FX gains some new Snowflakes

FX is about to get a little more special. The network has picked up a new, half-hour buddy comedy called Snowflakes from former Tonight Show writers Ben Kronengold & Rebecca Shaw. According to the series’ logline, “Snowflakes is a twenty-something ensemble comedy following a group of codependent housemates trying to be good people, despite being neither ‘good’ nor ‘people’ yet.” The first season will air sometime next year.

Judging only by the show’s first-look image (above), it seems like this series is aiming to pick up the Girls, Broad City, and Friends mantle of “comedy featuring lovable losers bumming around New York City.” That’s always an exciting prospect; we don’t really have one of those right now, unless, of course, you count And Just Like That… and the forthcoming Rachel Sennott show among that group. On the other hand—and this is a nitpicky critique—New York subways would never have cloth seats like the ones shown in this picture, for let’s just say obvious reasons. 

While that little snafu may give pause regarding how much the show’s creators understand New York’s inherent grossness (something Broad City at least never shied away from), they’re not totally unfamiliar with the Big Apple. 2018 Yale graduates Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw went viral for their college commencement speech before spending two years as the youngest writers in The Tonight Show’s history. They also published a book, Naked in the Rideshare: Stories of Gross Miscalculations, in 2023. “We’re so grateful to be telling this story about a group of friends navigating the hardest, horniest time of life together,” the duo said in a press release. “FX comedies have defined our generation, and we can’t wait to show them the consequences.”

Kronegold and Shaw are also getting the chance to work with some of the veterans who created those definitional series. Nick Kroll (Big Mouth, FX’s The League), Stefani Robinson (FX’s Atlanta, FX’s What We Do in the Shadows), and Jonathan Krisel (Portlandia, FX’s Baskets) will all serve as executive producers, with Krisel directing the Snowflakes’ pilot. “Ben and Rebecca are massively gifted writers, our cast is beyond talented and the team we have assembled around them is the best,” Kroll said in his own statement. “I cannot wait to help make this show and give many more quotes for press releases.”

Snowflakes stars Malik Elassal as Samir, Lucy Freyer as Billie, Jack Innanen as Paul Baker, Amita Rao as Issa, and Owen Thiele as Anton.