Seen one way, the title of HBO’s new Youth is clearly ironic. Its protagonist, Alex (creator Sharon Horgan), is not some bright-eyed 20something making her way in the big city, but a 50something divorcée; her driving concern is not what to do with a future that stretches endlessly before her, but how to make the most of one she fears is rapidly closing shut. Nevertheless, there’s something of the coming-of-age narrative in Alex’s uncertain flailing through this phase of her life — in her struggles to figure out how to be, what she wants, what she should want. Laced with Horgan’s signature combination of unsparing honesty and sparkling wit,…
