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According to the new series, “Adults,” those twentysomethings live together in a big house, don’t quite have a handle on employment and aren’t afraid to confront each other about life’s most intimate moments.

Heck, they even have to make rules about what’s left lying around the house or stashed in the dishwasher.

“Adults” is very adult and may take some time to warm to, particularly since it’s impossible to get a bead on Samir, Billie, Paul Baker, Issa and Anton. If there are inner relationships, they’re not evident in the first few episodes. They’re all extremely comfortable with one another but have difficulty reaching outside their friend circle and looking for support, jobs, and life partners.

Created by Ben Kronengold and Rebecca Shaw, “Adults” is a crass course in Gen Z, particularly since it takes three or four episodes just to get the characters’ backstories.

Samir (Malik Elassal) is the enabler who lets the others live in his childhood home while they discover their post-college lives. He doesn’t have a job, which puts him at a disadvantage when it comes to establishing rules for the others. Billie (Lucy Freyer) seems like the most accomplished, but she loses her job while undergoing medical tests. No job. No insurance. Trouble.

Issa (Amita Rao) and Anton (Owen Thiele) are the tightest of the five, but Paul Baker (Jack Innanen) has the kind of fluid personality that fits with all of them. When there’s tea to be spilled, Paul Baker (he goes by the full name) is there to spill.

In the first of eight episodes, the details are plentiful — specifically those that deal with their sex lives. This house doesn’t have boundaries, particularly when it comes to sharing a bathroom at the same time. They’re domestically challenged as well, which makes you wonder if they’ll make it to their 30s.

Near the series’ midpoint, they each get a task to complete to move their lives ahead. It’s a start but this is not something you could watch every night for hours.

More like one of those “Friends”-adjacent series that ran on ABC, “Adults” frequently shows how its characters thwart their own abilities to reach out. A potential date may be a big focus in one episode, a forgotten entity in the next. That suggests hurt is just outside the house’s front door.

While it may take a while to find its audience, “Adults” will teach you something about a new generation and make you fond of Paul Baker. In Innanen’s hands, he’s the everyman you didn’t realize you needed.

“Adults” airs on FX and Hulu.