Radhika Menonīased on the formation, recruitment, and ultimate mass suicide of the prominent 1970s cult Heaven’s Gate, the four-part docuseries on HBO Max is a careful, honest, and ultimately heartbreaking depiction of the organization. More importantly, The Sex Lives of College Girls makes the case that college is messy, and that’s precisely why we need to see more of it. The show isn’t exactly breaking new ground in terms of its romantic and identity-based storylines, but it approaches each girl’s predicaments with a tangible amount of love and understanding. Bela (Amrit Kaur) fancies college as a place to finally explore sex after being raised in a conservative household Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet) comes from a small town and lacks street smarts Leighton (Renee Rapp) is a legacy student who seemingly has everything going for her but is hiding a big secret and Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott) is a star soccer player who has to balance the expectations that come with being a senator’s daughter.
The series centers on four girls from extremely different backgrounds who have been grouped together as roommates at the esteemed and picturesque Essex College in the Northeast. Luckily, The Sex Lives of College Girls dives directly into the deep end of the partying, hook-ups, and self-realization that happens at college. On the flip side, young adult series often skip the intermediary college step and plunge directly into post-grad life, missing the significant amount of growth that occurs while teenagers are away from their parents for the first time. Teen dramas historically contain themselves to high school, and if the characters are allowed to escape that purgatory and graduate, the show often struggles to either let them go or find realistic storylines for them. Stars: Amrit Kaur, Pauline Chalamet, Renee Rapp, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Gavin Leatherwood, Chris Meyer, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Renika Williams, Lolo Spencer, Midori Francisįor many years, television has avoided college campuses. But after a string of recent successes, we predict there will be plenty more great Max Originals to come. We’ve mostly stuck to English language, scripted, live-action series-with one or two docuseries exceptions. The list of HBO Max originals is growing larger every day, and below we’ve ranked the 18 best that you can watch right now.
Though HBO Max is full of great HBO original series and a combination of all WarnerMedia properties that deliver an excellent TV roster on their own, there are also HBO Max original series.