Marcel The Shell co-writer Nick Paley is creating Freaks And Geeks meets The Twilight Zone
The coming-of-age mystery series Phony is coming to Hulu

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Marcel The Shell With Shoes On co-writer Nick Paley has another exciting project on the way, this time over at Hulu. After a six-way bidding war for the previously scrapped ABC Signature project, titled Phony, Paley landed a script-to-series deal with the streamer.
Per Deadline, Phony is described as a fusion of Judd Apatow’s Freaks And Geeks and The Twilight Zone. The half-hour coming-of-age mystery series follows Sonny, “a popular high school kid who wakes up after a strange car accident and discovers his mom has been replaced by an impostor,” which sounds like a plot straight out of a filler episode of Buffy The Vampire Slayer.