[Warning: The below contains MAJOR spoilers for The Sex Lives of College Girls, Season 3, Episode 2.]
The Intercourse Lives of School Women formally bid Leighton (Reneé Rapp) farewell in Season 3’s second installment, making method for a brand new period of Essex college students, whereas delivering a powerfully emotional sendoff.
After coming to phrases with the fact of her scenario, Leighton makes the powerful alternative that her instructional future is extra vital transferring ahead, and she or he struggles to share that information with each her father (Rob Huebel) and her greatest associates Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet), Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott), and Bela (Amrit Kaur).
Breaking the information to her dad first, Leighton comforts the person who has many nostalgic recollections surrounding his alma mater. In the meantime, Leighton’s plan to switch is uncovered by Jocelyn (Lauren “Lolo” Spencer) when she overhears Leighton exchanging books in line on the college retailer.
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When Kimberly reveals that the chums have scored a four-person dorm room, Leighton is much more reluctant to disclose her secret till it’s unintentionally uncovered. Leighton’s associates are understandably harm, however once they find out about Leighton’s intentions of transferring to MIT, they rapidly get on board.
Selecting to profit from their time left collectively, the chums revisit their outdated dorm and get together like it’s freshman yr over again earlier than parting methods the following morning when Leighton’s dad picks her as much as head for Boston. “I used to be so glad that we obtained to do it in the way in which that we did,” Scott tells TV Insider. “It simply made a lot sense and ended on such a stunning observe the place it’s not a messy finish of a friendship. It’s truthfully, fairly a optimistic and beautiful one the place you’re sending somebody off into the world to do what’s greatest for them,” she provides.
When it got here to filming the sequences for Leighton’s farewell, Kaur notes, “It was all actual.” Any feelings the solid was feeling in that second, Kaur says, “We put that into the work.” In the end, by Rapp’s exit, Kaur provides, “It’s by the artwork that allowed us to have some loving conversations about {our relationships} off-screen as properly.”
Nonetheless, as a lot as everybody elements on good phrases, it didn’t make the goodbye any much less painful. “It was bittersweet as a result of we had been like a household of the 4 of us,” Chalamet says. What made the separation simpler to simply accept was understanding that Leighton was doing what was proper for her future as Chalamet provides, “[Leighton] needs to review math. MIT has the most effective math program. It is smart and likewise it’s nice as a result of she’s not simply leaving for a woman, she’s leaving as a result of she is aware of higher what it’s she needs to review.”
And certain, Leighton might not have been leaving for a woman, however followers can discover consolation in the truth that she’ll be in the identical metropolis as her girlfriend Alicia (Midori Francis) who left in Season 3’s premiere episode to take a job with Boston’s mayor. And Scott makes a superb level, “Clearly it was unhappy to say goodbye to her, however on the similar time, we’re nonetheless associates. It’s not like she’s gone perpetually. She’s not like falling off the face of the earth. She’s proper across the nook. I noticed her [the other day]… It’s not the top of an period for our friendship, however extra so the top of an period for our working friendship in that method.”
Whether or not Rapp will ever return ought to The Intercourse Lives of School Women proceed for a fourth season stays to be seen, however there’s consolation in understanding Leighton’s not removed from her Essex associates. What did you consider Leighton’s departure? Tell us within the feedback, beneath, and keep tuned for the arrival of the present’s latest roommate in Episode 3.
The Intercourse Lives of School Women, Season 3, Thursdays, 9/8c Max