‘The Sex Lives of College Girls’ Will Not Return for Season 4 After Failing to Find a New TV Home

The Sex Lives of College Girls has been canceled after three seasons at Max,  and it seems like hope for the show’s future has dwindled to the point of likely no return at all for the series, despite initial reports that it might find a different TV home.

While fans awaited word surrounding a potential fourth season upon the show’s cancellation at Max in March 2025, it has since been reported that the hunt for a new home has yielded no results. Below, we’re breaking down everything we know about the cancellation and what might have happened if it had been saved by another platform.

What had been said about The Sex Lives of College Girls‘ potential Season 4 renewal?

Series co-creator and showrunner Justin Noble took to Instagram to acknowledge The Sex Lives of College Girls‘ cancellation at Max at the time, posting, “As creatives, we’re sort of taught to never compliment our own projects. Or even to downplay it when other people do. But here’s the thing: I think The Sex Lives Of College Girls is a pretty damn good TV show. Unfortunately, Max has decided not to order a fourth season. We are currently in discussions with some new potential homes for the show, and it’s nice that there is so much interest – but regardless of what happens, I’m proud of this show and the work that so many incredibly talented people put into it.”

Noble went on to thank Mindy Kaling for co-creating The Sex Lives of College Girls with him, as he wrote, “I want to of course thank Mindy for creating this loud and fun world with me and trusting me with it, WB and Max for believing in us when we thought this show would resonate, our wildly talented cast, our amazingly funny writers, and our kind and caring and hard-working crew, who put so much of themselves into this show. (Someone hire these people! Keep them paid!)”

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It has since been reported by Deadline, that The Sex Lives of College Girls has failed to find a new home following its cancellation at Max. “We were very much hoping to find a new home for that one, and I think we’ve now come to the end of the road, which is disappointing, because it’s a show that we really love,” Warner Bros. exec Channing Dungey told the outlet. “I’m so proud of the three seasons that we did at Max, but I don’t think there’s going to be more of College Girls.”

Where could The Sex Lives of College Girls Season 4 have been streamed?

As Noble mentioned, the series was shopped around for a new home, with other platforms having taken an interest. One new home the show could have headed to was Netflix, according to Deadline. As fans of Kaling know, she has connections with the streamer, most recently with the second season order of her comedy Running Point.

Who would have appeared in The Sex Lives of College Girls Season 4?

No casting had been unveiled for a potential fourth season, but we’d imagine the stories of our main characters would have continued, bringing Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Alyah Chanelle Scott, Gracie Lawrence, Mia Rodgers, and more back to Essex for a new semester, but now we know that won’t be the case.

What would The Sex Lives of Girls Season 4 have been about?

For those less familiar with The Sex Lives of College Girls followed students at Essex, a Vermont-based college where four unlikely friends were made after they became roommates in their freshman year. As viewers will recall, Season 3 bid Reneé Rapp‘s Leighton farewell as she transferred, paving the way for new student Kacey (Lawrence) to fill her spot in the dorm.

Season 4 would have likely continued the stories that were being set up in Season 3’s finale. Still, things concluded pretty neatly in the finale and that was intended according to Noble who told TV Insider in January 2025, “All [a cliffhanger] really does is mean that the first two episodes of the next season, you’re mopping up the mess created by the cliffhanger at the end of the previous season. And most of the time I think the people behind the scenes and the audience are like, ‘Can we just get past this?'”

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In other words, things were tied up with the hope that Season 4 would have kicked off with a fresh storyline. “Our girls have been put through the wringer this year,” Noble said at the time. “This was a year full of a lot of challenges, a lot of existential crisis moments, and it felt like I much rather preferred a version of a four-minute symphony ending of all of our girls getting big wins… So it was very much more about me choosing joy.” As fans will recall, the finale concluded with Kacey’s triumphant performance in the school’s play, as her roommates watched on in wonder.

How do you feel about the show’s ending now that it won’t continue on elsewhere? Sound off in the comments section.

The Sex Lives of College Girls, Seasons 1-3, Streaming now, Max