‘Youth’ Review: Sharon Horgan’s Sharp HBO Comedy Asks What We Really Have to Sacrifice with Age

Sharon Horgan returns to HBO with Youth, a sharp comedy exploring the precarity of middle age. Serving as a spiritual sequel to Pulling and Catastrophe, the series depicts a working divorced single mother navigating a mid-life crisis. Horgan portrays the challenges of balancing ailing parents and a needy son while offering a raunchy take on menopause. The show is praised for its specific insights, strong performances, and steady laughs within the humorous hellscape of aging.