HBO Renews Youth for Season 2 After Top-Five Launch — SkimNews
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- HBO ordered a second season of Youth, following a first-season launch that ranked among the network’s top five comedy launches globally.
- HBO Max currently streams the series’ eight-episode first season.
- Sharon Horgan plays Alex, a 50-year-old divorcee navigating relationships, ailing parents and a troubled son struggling to settle at college; she also writes and executive produces the series.
- Rotten Tomatoes gives Youth a 97% score, while Variety praises Horgan’s “magnetic screen presence” and calls her a “sharp comic writer.”
- Merman is behind Youth, with Faye Dorn serving as a Merman executive producer alongside Jim Kleverweis and Dawn Shadforth; Shadforth also directs.
- Sharon Horgan said the response was “beyond what I could have hoped for” and that she was happy to have “another opportunity to live out” her “emotional and biological crises” on HBO.
- Amy Gravitt said that, with Merman, HBO was “so thrilled” to have the ensemble back for another season, praising a show that prompts laughter and tears in the same moment.
Why it matters: For HBO, the renewal retains a comedy that paired a top-five global comedy launch with a 97% Rotten Tomatoes score, extending an eight-episode first season instead of ending it after one run. Sharon Horgan remains the creative center as star, writer and executive producer, while HBO says the ensemble and creative team will reunite for another season.
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