Youth is a 2026 HBO comedy created by, written by, and starring Sharon Horgan, the Irish writer-performer behind Catastrophe and the Emmy-nominated Bad Sisters. It is a sharp, bittersweet midlife comedy about a woman rebuilding her life on multiple fronts at once.
Horgan plays Alex, a fifty-year-old divorcee thrown back into the worlds of dating and desire just as she is raising her teenage son and taking on the care of her aging parents — the classic "sandwich generation" squeeze, mined here for both laughs and ache. Rupert Friend, Sharlene Whyte, and Aran Murphy co-star, with Harriet Walter, Anne Reid, and Freddie Fox among the ensemble. The series is a production of Merman, the company Horgan co-founded, and every episode is directed by Dawn Shadforth.
Premiering September 20, 2026 and rolling out weekly across eight episodes, Youth arrived with the pedigree of one of television's most reliable comic voices and a marquee slot on HBO's schedule. It is streaming on HBO Max.
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