Riley (Kensington Tallman) is a well-adjusted girl thanks to her emotions, Joy (Amy Poehler), Anger (Lewis Black), Fear (Tony Hale), Disgust (Liza Lapira), and Sadness (Phyllis Smith) keeping her on an even keel. They work tirelessly at Head Quarters (he he) banishing bad memories to the back of her mind, and planting good ones to strengthen her Sense of Self. Riley is happy hanging out with her besties, Bree (Sumayyah Nuriddin-Green), and Grace (Grace Lu), playing ice hockey and going for boy band concerts.
After a particularly good game, Coach Roberts (Yvette Nicole Brown) invites the three girls to go for a hockey camp, which they know might be the first step into the high school hockey side, the Fire Hawks, to play alongside the insanely popular Val Ortiz (Lilimar). Then Riley turns 13 and as the puberty alarm goes off, in walk a bunch of new emotions. First the maintenance crew comes in to make space for the “other guys”.
The new emotions led by the orange Anxiety (Maya Hawke) include Envy (Ayo Edebiri), Ennui (Adèle Exarchopoulos) and Embarrassment (Paul Walter Hauser) — don’t we all remember them from our callow youth? Oh and there is also the beige, fuzzy old lady Nostalgia (June Squibb). Riley’s mum (Diane Lane) and dad (Kyle MacLachlan) get a blast of the new Riley, full of dramatic meltdowns and outbursts, before she sets out for hockey camp. Her anxiety is compounded when she hears that Bree and Grace are going to a different school.
Joy and Anxiety cl.