The Sex Lives of College Girls (2021 - Season 1)

 

Rating: ★★★★ 

Just get passed the first episode. You might be liable to find it very cringe, and end up thinking this is just another "insert inclusivity" Twitter-lingo Generation-Z show after that first episode. But believe me, just give it one more chance and you will notice how all the intriguing dramatic angles pick up from the second episode onwards. The Sex Lives of College Girls does not do anything special in form or technicality to change the game or challenge the status quo, in fact, it falls pretty neatly into the camp sorority subgenre. But it does so with a lot of heart and realism. The realities of the challenges that freshman college students face are put on display, and even if the main focus is on the lives of the four main girls, the show does well enough to add and explore colourful characters from all spectrums of identity, and lays good enough foundations to promise to do so more in the already-confirmed second season.

The main characters are Kimberly (the under-privileged white girl from middle America), Leighton (the fancy no-nonsense bratty white bitch from New York), Bela (the geeky Indian girl who wants to make it in comedy and at the same time shatter her Indian parents' stereotypical STEM dreams for her), and Whitney (the black girl who has to deal with the pressure of having a boss-babe state senator mother and a deadbeat father). All of those descriptors I just gave for them are just surface level however, and as the season unfolds each character is shown to be so much more under those initial perceptions. Some genuine hilarious moments here and there, mixed with good drama. Do check it out!