Youth

About Youth

A 50-year-old divorcee searches for sex and love whilst juggling caring for her ailing parents and parenting her should-be grown up son.

Youth is a comedy series made for HBO Max. Sharon Horgan appears as Alex, Rupert Friend as Patrick, Sharlene Whyte as Sam, and Aran Murphy as Ruarí.

It has run to one season of 8 episodes since September 2026.

Shelv files it under mother son relationship, parenting, divorcee, and divorced woman. In the United States it streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel. It carries a TV-MA rating.

Big Little Lies and Playing Nice make useful companions to Youth.