Sex Lives of College Girls has been canceled after three seasons at Max.
The Mindy Kaling co-created coming-of-age comedy was often atop the Warner Bros. Discovery streamer’s top 10 list during its most recent season, which wrapped in late January and saw the departure of original castmember Reneé Rapp.
After the series ran a mostly cliffhanger-free season finale, co-showrunner Justin Noble, who oversaw the show with Kaling, insisted that the episode wasn’t meant to wrap up the series.
“No one told us to, like, wrap up the show or anything like that,” he told The Hollywood Reporter, explaining that his approach to ending the season was more about his personal preference than any sort of dictate.
“I think just me as a creator, I’m losing interest in cliffhangers,” Noble said of the finale “I think it’s longer than ever between seasons for logistical reasons within the industry, and frankly, I don’t think audiences like cliffhangers the way that they used to. … You have to bring back to the show and comfort that you want. That’s why you return to it. So I’m sort of losing interest in what feels perhaps TV fake to me, in a lot of cliffhangers in comedies.”
Instead he said he chose a “happy ending” that felt “honest” and “satisfying” after a season of personal growth for the characters instead of a shocking change that could set up a more dramatic season four or quickly be undone.
He added that while the final scene wasn’t a cliffhanger, there are certainly character storylines that are unresolved.
Whether those storylines will get resolved remains to be seen. Sex Lives was produced by Warner Bros. Television for the Warner Bros. Discovery-owned streamer which would seem to complicate efforts to find a new home for the series.
Max and Warner Bros. declined to comment.
More to come.
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