Youth (HBO Max)
Rating: Five stars
Sharon Horgan is feeling her age.
She has co-written and starred in some of the funniest, most painfully honest shows of the past decade, including Motherland and Catastrophe.
But at 56, she’s terrified she might be over the hill.
Every scene in her semi-autobiographical drama-comedy Youth is stark with fear, screaming, ‘Have I lost my looks? What do you think of my body? Am I too old to be doing this?’
The individual scenes are hilariously funny, full of savage wit. But watch the first two half-hour episodes, now streaming on HBO Max, and the overall effect is brutal.
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