'The Sex Lives of College Girls' enrolls another female quartet in a coming-of-age comedy
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HBO has a storied history with female quartets, from "Sex and the City" to "Girls." Yet "The Sex Lives of College Girls" carves out its own niche with a distinct voice and plenty of very funny material, capturing four young women from diverse backgrounds thrown together as roommates while coming of age as first-year college students.
Co-created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, the HBO Max show actually has a lot to say, in part by uniting women whose differences in terms of race, class and geography are somewhat eclipsed by sharing the process of discovering themselves and carving out identities apart from their parents.
"Mom, I'm not bringing my teddy bear to college with me," one complains during the moving-in stage at New England's Essex College, nicely capturing the middle ground between independence and childhood that this period uniquely represents.