Quarter Life Poetry

Quarter Life Poetry is a project written and created by Samantha Jayne. It began in January 2015 as an Instagram account.{{Cite web|url=https://www.instagram.com/quarterlifepoetry/|title=Quarter Life Poetry (@quarterlifepoetry) • Instagram photos and videos|website=instagram.com}} where Samantha would write quatrains and draw doodles about her quarter life crisis. Grand Central published her humor book titled Quarter Life Poetry: Poems For The Young, Broke & Hangry in April 2016.{{Cite book|url=https://www.grandcentralpublishing.com/titles/samantha-jayne/quarter-life-poetry/9781455565276/|title=Quarter Life Poetry|date=June 27, 2017|via=www.grandcentralpublishing.com}} The book was later translated into French,{{Cite web|url=http://www.hugoetcie.fr/livres/quarter-life-poetry-rimes-pour-jeunes-fauches-en-colere/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416164135/http://www.hugoetcie.fr/livres/quarter-life-poetry-rimes-pour-jeunes-fauches-en-colere/|archive-date=April 16, 2017|title=Quarter Life Poetry – Rimes pour jeunes, fauchés & en colère|first=Samantha|last=Jayne}} German,{{Cite book|url=https://service.randomhouse.de/paperback/Quarter-Life-Poetry/Samantha-Jayne/e516031.rhd?pub=1&frm=true|title=Samantha Jayne: Quarter Life Poetry. btb Verlag (Paperback, Fiction)|via=service.randomhouse.de}} and Chinese and also released in the UK.{{Cite book|title=Quarter Life Poetry: Amazon.co.uk: Samantha Jayne: 9780751566673: Books|id={{ASIN|0751566675|country=uk}}}}

Four years later, Quarter Life Poetry premiered as a short form dark-comedy series at the Sundance Film Festival{{Cite web|url=https://www.sundance.org/projects/quarter-life-poetry|title=quarter-life-poetry|website=sundance.org}} where it was critically acclaimed{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/sundance-2019-breakout-stars-of-the-festival-1202040455/|title=Sundance 2019: The 14 Breakout Stars of the Festival You Need to Know|first1=Kate Erbland, Eric Kohn, Anne Thompson, Christian Blauvelt, Ben Travers, Chris|last1=O'Falt|first2=Kate|last2=Erbland|first3=Eric|last3=Kohn|first4=Anne|last4=Thompson|first5=Christian|last5=Blauvelt|first6=Ben|last6=Travers|first7=Chris|last7=O'Falt|date=February 2, 2019}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/quarter-life-poetry-dont-hug-me-im-scared-reviews-1181950|title='Quarter Life Poetry' and 'Don't Hug Me I'm Scared': TV Reviews | Sundance 2019|website=The Hollywood Reporter}} and picked up by FX Networks.{{Cite web|url=https://www.indiewire.com/2019/02/sundance-2019-netflix-fx-tv-buys-1202039946/|title=Big Buys at Sundance Mean Indie TV Is Real, and Gaining Ground|first1=Ben|last1=Travers|date=February 1, 2019}} Each short-form episode focuses on a different anxiety, often explored through fantastical reality, spoken word, or music.{{Cite web|url=https://filmmakermagazine.com/106894-we-mostly-didnt-shoot-traditional-coverage-because-we-knew-the-edit-points-dp-drew-daniels-on-quarter-life-poetry/|title="We Mostly Didn't Shoot Traditional Coverage Because We Knew the Edit Points": DP Drew Daniels on Quarter Life Poetry|author=Filmmaker Staff}} Samantha wrote and starred in each episode, and Arturo Perez Jr. directed all 9 episodes.

The short form series is part of the FXX television series Cake.{{Cite web|url=https://www.fxnetworks.com/shows/cake|title=Cake | FX Networks|website=fxnetworks.com}}