That two-year wait for The Sex Lives of College Girls season 3 stings just a little bit more now — on April 11, 2025, Max officially cancelled the series after a search to find the show a new streaming platform to call home.
We were first introduced to Bela, Kimberly, Leighton, and Whitney — our chaotic and lovable roommate foursome — in November 2021 on the campus of Essex College, where their newfound freedom would be tested to the absolute limits.
While the group wasn't necessarily interested in friendship (we're looking at you, Leighton), their odd pairing ended up being the perfect recipe for hilarious disaster, and season 2 gave us even more wholesome moments and drama between the four (now we are looking at you, Caanan). Season 3 saw our crew going through some changes, with Leighton leaving for MIT and a new roommate, Kacey, moving in with the remaining trio.
Co-created by Mindy Kaling and Justin Noble, Sex Lives of College Girls was about stepping out on your own, exploring sex and sexuality — and the many on-campus nudist adventures — while also simultaneously building lifelong friendships with people who were once strangers. Season 3 had everything from new romance to rekindled flames, toxic relationships, first times, bisexual awakenings, and a closing performance that left everyone in tears — plus a couple of loose threads everyone was hoping season 4 would address.
Below, find out everything you need to know about the cancellation of The Sex Lives of College Girls.
Is Sex Lives of College Girls canceled?
Yes. Max announced that it had canceled The Sex Lives of College Girls after three seasons on March 18, 2025, via Deadline. Though Max did not explicitly give a reason for the cancellation, a fall in ratings is believed to be the main reason behind the decision.
Does that mean we won't get Sex Lives of College Girls season 4?
Sadly, yes. Max's cancellation initially meant that Sex Lives of College Girls season 4 would not be living on that streamer anymore; Deadline reported back in March that the show was actively looking for a new home for the show's potential next season.
According to Deadline, Warner Bros. Television, who produced the show, eyed Netflix — with whom Mindy Kaling has worked a lot in the past — as the next potential home for Sex Lives of College Girls season 4, but reps for the production studio declined to comment.
Then, on April 11, Warner Bros. TV Group chairman Channing Dungey exclusively told Deadline that the series was officially over. “I don’t think so,” Dungey said when asked if the show had any kind of future on any platform. “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. 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.”
It wouldn't have been the first time a different streamer rehomed a canceled show. Penn Badgley's You, a little series you might have heard about, first debuted on Lifetime in 2018 before moving to Netflix in its second season, and it's now headed for a fifth and final chapter. The uber-popular Brooklyn Nine-Nine was also famously canceled by Fox after five seasons before it was picked up by NBC for three more. Dead Boy Detectives also moved from Max to Netflix before it had even premiered.
Who could've been in Sex Lives of College Girls season 4?
Season 3 of The Sex Lives of College Girls introduced some changes for our leading four. Pauline Chalamet returned as Kimberly Finkle, Alyah Chanelle Scott once again stepped in the shoes of Whitney Chase, and Amrit Kaur played the sexually liberated comedienne Bela Malhotra.
However, while Reneé Rapp still portrayed Leighton Murray for season 3, her role went from regular to recurring. Rapp appeared in a few episodes of season three, but her character traded Essex College for MIT, marking her official exit from the series after.
Other plenty of familiar and new faces were part of season 3, like Jocelyn (played by Lauren “Lolo” Spencer), Canaan Greene (Christopher Meyer), Lila Flores (Ilia Isorelýs Paulino), and Willow (Renika Williams). Gracie Lawrence also joined the cast as new transfer student Kacey, as did Mia Rodgers as Taylor, a first-year international student who became Bela's biggest nightmare and then friend.
The recurring cast included Nabeel Muscatwalla as Arvind, Rebecca Wisocky as Professor Dorfmann, Michael Hsu Rosen as Brian, as well as Devin Craig, Ruby Cruz, Michael Provost, and Roby Attal as new cast additions.
What could've happened during Sex Lives of College Girls season 4?
Unlike the previous two seasons, which ended on cliffhangers, Sex Lives of College Girls season 3 wrapped up somewhat nicely with Kacey's performance. Bela and her mom had a bonding moment. Whitney is back in the soccer team after leading a revolution and back with Caanan, though we have no word on how Isaac took it all.
Things did not end up as neatly for the other girls. Kimberly's short-lived flame with fellow protester Noah was cut short when she was bailed out of jail by her bi ex Eli, so there was some intrigue there. And though Kacey wowed everyone away with her rendition of “Never Enough” from The Greatest Showman, there was still some unresolved tension with Cooper, who broke up with her after having sex. We also had Ruby Cruz's Ash and Mia Rodgers's Taylor in a budding relationship.
Speaking to Teen Vogue, show co-creator Justin Noble said: “What I want the viewers to take away from this season is that feeling of incremental growth. It's the thing that feels most real to me as a college student. [...] This season, there is a really strong balance between the comedy and the drama on the show that'll teach some important lessons that we want the younger section of our audience, particularly the younger women, to pay a little attention to things that maybe get a little lost in the sauce when we're all going about our lives, especially at 18 and 19.”
So, how could season 4 have continued those storylines? Speaking to Variety, Noble revealed he was “hopeful” for season 4 despite the lack of cliffhangers.
“I just had this epiphany about the utility of cliffhangers, particularly in comedies. I’ve been doing this for 10 to 11 years, and I came up through the network space where we would always, always belabor: ‘What’s the big cliffhanger going to be?’” he explained. “And without fail, the next season, you just spend two or three episodes undoing the cliffhanger that you did, while people behind the scenes and the audiences are like, ‘Come on, let’s get back to where it was! We don’t want Whitney at Kappa. We want the girls back together.’ Or, ‘We don’t want a new captain in ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine.’ We want Captain Holt back.’ You don’t want to undo the DNA of the show and make fake stakes just for the purpose of a cliffhanger.”
“I don’t think anyone is tuning in or not tuning into a show they enjoy based on whether or not someone was in peril at the end of the last season,” he continued. “This in particular is such a season of growth for all of our girls. Their big triumphs at the end of the season are there because they went through it earlier on. And I was just so excited to put out a season finale that chooses joy and has all these girls standing up strong against the things that are against them, and getting this four-minute-long symphony of wins. I don’t need to follow that up with the soccer coach from Season 1 peeking his head through a bush being like, ‘Whitney, give me 50 grand or I’m going to the press!’ We don’t need it. Let’s end on a happy moment of our girls being there together, click the remote off and smile and go to sleep.”
Noble also added a message in case they didn't get a season 4: “Rally everyone and take them to the streets and demand it.” You heard him.
