The Sex Lives of College Girls season 3 ending had everything: breakups, protests, and bisexual awakenings. What it didn’t have was a cliffhanger. So, what went down in the Sex Lives of College Girls finale, and what does this gift-wrapped ending mean for a fourth season? After all, we already lost one college girl at the end of episode two, with Leighton (Reneé Rapp) ditching Essex College to focus on her pop career transfer to MIT and be closer to her girlfriend, Alicia (Midori Francis).
Of course, that doesn’t mean the rest of the quartet—or their new roommate, Kacey (Gracie Lawrence)—are going anywhere. Here’s where Bela (Amit Kaur), Whitney (Alyah Chanelle Scott), and Kimberly (Pauline Chalamet) stand at the end of season 3 and what that means for a potential fourth season.
What’s up with Kimberly?
By the end of season 3, Kimberly is in her civil disobedience era, having helped a group of student protesters shut down the livestream of a Congressman’s hateful speech on campus. Ultimately, she decides to risk her future seat on the Supreme Court by cutting the wires of the school’s internet servers, getting arrested in the process.
Though her arrest certainly put Kimberly’s political aspirations on the line, her love life might be on the upswing. After hitting it off with her fellow protester Noah (Trevor Flanagan-Tordjman), she’s bailed out of jail by Eli (Michael Provost)—you know, the guy whose party habits were unaligned with her life plan. Suddenly that doesn’t seem like such a barrier anymore…
Meanwhile, Whitney is back on the soccer team.
In a triumphant moment of solidarity, the rest of the Essex soccer team—as well as other student athletes—band together to support Whitney, who quit over a series of incidents that negatively affected her physical and mental health. Together, Whitney & Co. are able to pressure the school’s athletics board into implementing better practices to protect its students.
And then there’s Bela.
My personal favorite arc of the finale involves Bela’s bisexual awakening. Unlike Leighton, Bela doesn’t really struggle with her realization that she’s into women after kissing Haley (Belle Adams) in the finale, choosing to tell her friends and co-eds as quickly as possible. Though she does change her plans to come out publicly when her mom shows up to her comedy show, she doesn’t hold back for long. Ultimately, she’s fully accepted by her mom when she does choose to share the news by holding hands with Haley.
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