The Premise is an American anthology television series created by B. J. Novak.
[4] Each episode tells a single character driven story about a current world situated issue.
[6] Lucas Hedges, Kaitlyn Dever, Jon Bernthal, and Boyd Holbrook were cast for pilot episodes in 2019 while Ben Platt, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Daniel Dae Kim, among others, were announced to be starring in the series in August 2021.
[3] The series premiered on September 16, 2021, on FX on Hulu in the United States.
The website's critics consensus reads, "A mixed bag of good intentions that ultimately falls flat, The Premise's attempts to grapple with complex social issues aren't funny enough to work as satire, but lack the dramatic heft necessary to be satisfying melodrama.