'The Sex Lives of College Girls,' the new HBO Max comedy from co-creator Mindy Kaling, mines the ups and downs of freshman year — that pivotal time of fucking, and fucking up. Alan Sepinwall's review
. Sois not arriving to territory that feels, for lack of a better word, virgin. But it quickly stakes its claim as a likable show that understands what’s specifically exciting and terrifying — for both the students and their distant parents — about arriving on campus.
The four leads are all well cast and have great chemistry with one another, especially after Leighton stops being standoffish to the others a few episodes in. It’s a good mix of personality types with different brands of conflict that frequently wind up three-against-one.
Bela is aggressively, at times hilariously, horny — “Young Stalin could get it!” she declares while studying a history textbook — though the more cringe-inducing scenes with her tend to involve her shameless pursuit of a spot on the school’s prestigious humor magazine.
The show as a whole is a mix of larger social issues and smaller personal stories. Whitney, for instance, grows frustrated when she learns of all the perks the inferior boys’ soccer team gets compared to her championship contender squad, while Leighton’s horizons are reluctantly broadened when she gets assigned to do community service at the campus women’s center. Largely, though, it’s about each member of the quartet figuring out who she really is and what she wants to do with her life.
The parents — including Sherri Shepherd as Whitney’s progressive politician mother and Rob Huebel as Leighton’s wealthy father — figure into things from time to time. But for the most part, the women are left to figure things out on their own — which is one of the defining themes of both college life and college shows. This is a very good and fun example of the latter.begin streaming on Nov. 18 on HBO Max, with three more episodes apiece debuting on Nov. 25 and Dec.
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