‘Sex Lives of College Girls’ Season 3 Trailer Sees Suitemates Set to “Step Up Our Game”

The suitemates in Max‘s Sex Lives of College Girls are working hard and playing harder in the trailer for the show’s third season, out in November.

The latest look at the upcoming set of episodes in the Mindy Kaling- and Justin Noble-created coming-of-age series features numerous clips of exiting actress Reneé Rapp‘s Leighton alongside her roommates Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet), Bela (Amrit Kaur) and Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott).

But as Rapp is set to leave the series this season, appearing in a few episodes as a recurring guest star to set up Leighton’s departure from the show’s fictional Essex College, the remaining three main characters are also shown dealing with academic challenges.

Bela is seemingly recommitted to Essex after saying she wanted to transfer schools at the end of season two saying, “This is sophomore year. We’ve got to step up our game.”

But she still appears self-conscious about her low GPA when someone asks her about it in a meeting, only for it to be revealed that she tweeted the number.

Meanwhile, Whitney confesses that she’s been feeling “overwhelmed” and is shown swallowing an espresso bean like a pill, which she calls a “life hack.”

For her part, Kimberly is overheard saying she’s “chosen courses that should lead to becoming a Supreme Court justice by the age of 53,” as she sports a Ruth Bader Ginsburg-inspired collar and holds up a needlepoint pillow of the late Supreme Court justice. But her professor, played by Tig Notaro, isn’t fooled.

The professor asks, “Are you wearing the thing they sell Asian pears in?”

Kimberly, removing her collar: “Not exactly”

Later Bela, who also expressed she felt like she was turning people away at the end of season two, expresses her commitment to her friends.

“Who needs men when you’ve got good music, great vibes and the best gals,” she says.

But when Kimberly says she told a guy she’ll talk to him later because “tonight is for the girls,” Bela says, “Very dumb. I would’ve taken him to the laundry room and gone through all of the bases twice.”

Season three of The Sex Lives of College Girls returns Thursday, Nov. 21, with one new episode in the 10-episode set dropping each week at 9 p.m. ET through Jan. 23.

The Max series also stars Christopher Meyer, Ilia Isorelýs Paulino, Renika Williams, Gracie Lawrence and Mia Rodgers.

When asked about her exit from the show in a February Hollywood Reporter cover story, Rapp said the decision to leave “was hard for so many reasons” and recalled the difficult experience of coming to terms with her sexuality in her personal life as her character was doing so in the series.

“On TikTok, [I watched] this scene in season one, where I come out to another character as a lesbian, and I’m crying, sobbing,” she told THR. “And I hadn’t seen that scene in years. It is so interesting that at the time I wasn’t even aware that what I was experiencing in my own personal life was actually exactly what I was doing onscreen. I was in a relationship with a man, incredibly confused, unsure of myself, feeling so insecure in my acting. And I watched the scene the other day, and I was like, ‘Wow, I feel so lucky to have that.’ That’s something I would show my kids. So when I watched it back, I was like, ‘Yeah, that’s hard to leave that.’ And I’m also so grateful that I was able to have that moment. Not only was it helpful for other people, it was crazy for me; crazy helpful and also crazy hard. Because I’m like, ‘Why am I freaking out all the time?’ I would go home, and I would call my friends, and I’d be like, ‘I think I’m a lesbian, but I really love my boyfriend. I would want to be with him, but I see him more as a friend.’ So not only was I doing that on the show, publicly, in a big way to so many people, and my family, who had no idea that I was gay, I was also going through it personally. It is fucking crazy to watch that back.”

She added, “Being celebrated for being out because of a TV show or celebrity or success or something was really interesting because I think it forced a lot of people in my life and my family to have to accept me in a weird way, and in some ways that are twisted, like, ‘Damn, we could have done that a long time ago without her being on a TV show.’ However, I think it made it a lot easier in ways that pissed me off, but I’m also really grateful for. That [show] was the most parallel experience in my life, and I remember doing that specific coming-out scene and not acting at all. At all. I was just sobbing. I see that, and I don’t see a character. I’m like, ‘That’s me.’”