HBO’s Girls became the show for the struggling millennial, and Laid, a Peacock original with a 96% score on Rotten Tomatoes feels like the perfect follow-up. Girls had an intense six-season run, following the trials and tribulations of four 20-somethings struggling to embrace, accept, and get a grip on adulthood. From false pregnancies to being unemployed, awkward sex to toxic friendships, Lena Dunham’s popular show covered every single young adult nightmare.

Like Sex and the City, the 2010s series continues to find popularity today, uniting generations of young women on their path to achieving (or eternally searching for) economic, personal, and romantic success and stability. Starring Everything Everywhere All at Once’s Stephanie Hsu and The Decameron‘s Zosia Mamet, Laid is Peacock’s most recent millennial comedy show. The Laid trailer follows a party planner who is mysteriously forced to reunite with all her exes, facing a journey that confronts her with her worst deeds and which might complicate a fated love connection.

Zosia Mamet’s Laid Is A Great New Comedy To Watch If You Liked HBO’s Girls

Stephanie Hsu And Zosia Mamet Embody Adulting With Great Comedic Skill And A Twist

Laid walks on Girls’ legacy as a show about the ridiculousness of adulthood that becomes so much more. However, where Girls’ characters were fun and relatable as they could hardly own up to their flaws, Laid pretends to make her protagonist figuratively, and literally, make up for the hurt she has done in the past. The witty yet embarrassingly realistic dialogue resembles Girls’, and Hsu and Mamet’s Laid performances make the script 10 times better, displaying their nuance and stellar comedic timing.

Laid’s female pair is explosive, relatable, and subversive in the best ways, showing an iconic friendship that still has to acknowledge its unspoken issues.

Mamet steals the show whenever she appears, and her character is very reminiscent of her beloved Girls role. AJ is her friend’s hype-woman, though her naïve and quirky personality makes other people underestimate and walk over her. Like Shoshanna, Mamet’s Laid character must figure out how to put herself above her one-sided relationships and demand the respect she gives. Laid’s female pair is explosive, relatable, and subversive in the best ways, showing an iconic friendship that still has to acknowledge its unspoken issues.

Laid’s Crime Mystery Twist Makes It One Of The Most Intriguing New Shows On TV

Laid Blends Genres To Depict The Horror Of A Modern Woman’s Dating History

Laid’s creators take inspiration from an Australian series, giving a twist to the romantic comedy by mixing it with crime mystery tropes. Although the combination sounds like a striking one, Laid quickly finds its footing, offering an alluring story that smartly plays with its genres. When Ruby discovers her exes are dying in bizarre ways, she must locate them, warn them, and try to uncover what’s really going on, all while having to deal with her and their messy feelings.

Laid’s planned Barbie and MCU cameos are only one of its many pleasant surprises, and it joins Ruby’s past secrets and a wider conspiracy as something that could make it into a rich, long-running series. Laid’s reviews already confess a desire to follow the flawed Ruby on her romantic and deadly journey toward redemption, growth, and (hopefully) love. The Peacock original successfully separates itself from other rom-com TV shows, building on Girls’ awkward romantic and friend dynamics to offer a unique take on the horror of a modern woman’s dating history.