Rating: TV-MA | Runtime: 103 minutes
Release Date: June 17th, 2026 (USA)
Studio: Hulu
Director(s): Marty Schousboe
Writer(s): John Reynolds / John Reynolds & Marty Schousboe (story)

You’re obsussed.

I’m honestly not sure what I just watched. Sure, it has a flimsy conceit wherein a new law makes it necessary for a single school’s graduating class from 2008 (due to a tornado) to repeat senior year in two weeks to reaffirm their diplomas, but it’s also got a plethora of non sequiturs like a serial killer, a Lloyd Christmas, a Blade who kills aliens, and an Arab man who’s the butt of terrorist jokes.

Never Change! feels like director Marty Schousboe and writer/star John Reynolds held a brainstorm session to figure out what they would have loved to seen when they were twelve—like a sex-ed teacher desperate to have sex with a student. Then they loosely tied it all together via an absurd premise, aged their teenage-brained characters into thirty-somethings, and hired their funny friends to have fun.

Shot on the high school campus that serves as Jeremy Garelick’s American High production studio, the whole feels like a high school project scaled up to the modest budget of the shingle’s other (better) Hulu originals (Big Time Adolescence and Plan B). The cast is game and the filmmakers are earnestly proficient, but it’s a mess of a time capsule of the type of low-bar comedy we should forget.

Micah Sterenberg throwing a rager while his parents are “gone” was objectively hilarious, though.

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John Reynolds and Sofia Black-D’Elia in NEVER CHANGE! – In 2008 the graduating class of North Meadows High School had their senior year cut short due to a disastrous tornado. Now in their mid 30’s they’re being forced to return home and finish high school once and for all. Old flames, second chances, this is what nightmares are made of. (Disney/Brett Roedel)