(CNN) HBO 有着悠久的女性四重奏历史，从“欲望都市”到“女孩”。然而，“女大学生的性生活”以独特的声音和大量非常有趣的材料开辟了自己的细分市场，捕捉到四名来自不同背景的年轻女性在成为一年级大学生时作为室友聚在一起。
由 Mindy Kaling 和 Justin Noble 共同创建的 HBO Max 节目实际上有很多话要说，部分是通过分享发现自己和塑造身份的过程，将种族、阶级和地域差异在某种程度上黯然失色的女性联合起来除了他们的父母。
“妈妈，我不会带着我的泰迪熊一起上大学，”一个人在新英格兰埃塞克斯学院的搬入阶段抱怨道，很好地捕捉了这一时期独特代表的独立和童年之间的中间地带。
看看光着膀子慢跑的慢动作镜头，对想等到结婚的男朋友的怀疑（“男孩已经准备好了，所以有些事情发生了”）以及与性别认同作斗争的问题。
制片人通过组建了一个非常好的演员来帮助这个过程，其中包括波琳·查拉梅特——蒂莫西的妹妹——饰演金伯利，一个来自亚利桑那州的睁大眼睛的人，似乎永远说错话，缺乏人脉和经济资源她的室友。剩下的三人组，贝拉 (Amrit Kaur)、Leighton (Reneé Rapp) 和 (Whitney) Alyah Chanelle Scott，同样出色，Kaur 获得了最大的笑声，因为她逃离了父母的监督，她还是个渴望摆脱困境的孩子.
虽然这并不是什么新领域，但“性生活”偶尔也会变得甜蜜和有趣，例如当他们中的一些人参加“裸体派对”并因低头看别人的裸体而受到指责时，嗯，裸体。
“所以我们不应该看？这是什么，塔利班统治下的裸体派对？”贝拉抱怨。
后来，一位参议员的女儿惠特尼不情愿地和富有的莱顿一起参加了一个兄弟会，对她遇到的金发女孩们说：“我期待有一天能在‘卖日落'中见到你们。”
在笑话和不舒服的情况下（包括在后面的一集中父母周末的一顿非常令人畏缩的晚餐），几乎可以明显感受到融入的绝望渴望，以及大学时代在定义人们成熟时的重要性.
从这个意义上说，“女大学生的性生活”是一个相当简单的、有利于营销的标题，对于一个令人耳目一新的节目来说远不止这些。
碰巧的是，该系列节目将在 HBO 的“欲望都市”的复兴击中流媒体服务的同一天结束，这是对流派过去的致敬。如果“性生活”在某些方面是精神上的继承人，那么与下一代相比，与重新审视之前的一代相比，与下一代会面更有创造性的承诺。
“女大学生的性生活”于 11 月 18 日在 HBO Max 上首播。 CNN 和 HBO Max 都是华纳媒体的一部分。
'The Sex Lives of College Girls' enrolls another female quartet in a coming-of-age comedy
(CNN)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.
Cue the slow-motion shots of shirtless guys jogging, the skepticism about a boyfriend who wants to wait until marriage ("Boys are born ready, so something's up") and issues about grappling with sexual identity.
The producers have helped the process by assembling a very good cast, including Pauline Chalamet -- Timothee's sister -- as Kimberley, a wide-eyed arrival from Arizona who forever seems to be saying the wrong thing, and who lacks the connections and financial resources of her roommates. The remaining trio, Bela (Amrit Kaur), Leighton (Reneé Rapp), and (Whitney) Alyah Chanelle Scott, are equally good, with Kaur garnering the biggest laughs as a kid eager to cut loose out now that she's escaped her parents' supervision.
While this is hardly new terrain, "Sex Lives" manages to be occasionally sweet in addition to funny, such as when a couple of them attend a "naked party" and get chided for looking down at others', um, nakedness.
"So we're not supposed to look? What is this, a naked party under Taliban rule?" Bela complains.
Later, Whitney -- the daughter of a senator -- grudgingly attends a fraternity party along with the wealthy Leighton, telling the sea of blond girls that she meets, "I look forward to seeing you all on 'Selling Sunset' one day."
Amid the jokes and uncomfortable situations (including a positively cringeworthy dinner during parents' weekend in a later episode), there's an almost palpable sense of the desperate desire to fit in, as well as how significant the college years are in defining people as they mature.
In that sense, "The Sex Lives of College Girls" is a rather simplistic, marketing-friendly title for a show that's refreshingly about a lot more than that.
As it happens, the series will conclude the same day that HBO's "Sex and the City" revival hits the streaming service, a nod to the genre's past. If "Sex Lives" is in some respects a spiritual heir, it makes a strong case that meeting the next generation has more creative promise than revisiting an earlier one.
"The Sex Lives of College Girls" premieres Nov. 18 on HBO Max. CNN and HBO Max are both part of WarnerMedia.
