Extraordinary is a hilarious new half-hour, 8-episode comedy on Hulu about a world where everyone gets a superpower when they turn 18.
The opening moments of Hulu’s new comedy Extraordinary — a half-hour, 8-episode series that, full disclosure, I’m completely obsessed with — present the viewer with a familiar scene and a commonplace exchange. A young woman named Jen, dressed to the nines, is shown applying for a job in what looks to be some sort of conference room. She hands a stack of papers to her interviewer, and the back-and-forth begins.
The familiar questions: Why do you need this job … what do you bring to the table. .. you get the idea. Where things take a sharp turn, however, is when Jen starts blurting out uncomfortably truthful answers.
How was your journey?
“It was terrible! I got the bus, because I’m poor, and it smelt like warm, raw chicken. And I’m really nervous so I thought I was going to s**t myself the whole way in — but I didn’t! And if I’m sitting weirdly, it’s because I think my tampon’s come out … but I didn’t have time to go to the bathroom downstairs, because I slept in ….”
From there, you can only imagine Jen’s answers to questions like why she wants this job — and then, when the interviewer who’s wearing an eye patch asks if there’s anything else Jen wants to ask, Jen can’t help but inquire as to whether there’s a gross, ugly hole behind that patch.
