On October 14, 2020, the lead cast, made up of Pauline Chalamet, Amrit Kaur, Reneé Rapp and Alyah Chanelle Scott, was announced.
On December 7, 2021, HBO Max renewed the series for a second season. In October 2020, it was announced that the first episode would be co-written by Kaling and Never Have I Ever 's Justin Noble, with Noble joining the series as executive producer.
In May 2020, the series was confirmed to be launching in 2021, under the new title The Sex Lives of College Girls. It was given a straight-to-series order of 13 half-hour episodes with Mindy Kaling announced to create, write and executive produce the series under her overall deal with Warner Bros. The series was first announced at the HBO Max presentation in October 2019, under the working title College Girls.
This was a very young cast, and it was easy for everything to turn into a cocktail party.” “I yelled, and sometimes you had to yell. “I was young,” Whedon explained to New York in response, although he said he wasn’t aware of Trachtenberg’s rule. Cast member Charisma Carpenter’s alleged he was “casually cruel” to her during the making of Buffy and Angel, while Michelle Trachtenberg wrote on Instagram that she wasn’t allowed to be alone with Whedon. Several cast members on Buffy the Vampire Slayer, perhaps Whedon’s seminal work, have also spoken out about the director’s behavior. “We’re talking about a bad actor in both senses.” “We’re talking about a malevolent force,” Whedon responded. The director claimed Fisher was simply trying to damage his reputation.
In another instance, Ray Fisher alleged that Whedon’s behavior during the making of Justice League was “gross, abusive, unprofessional, and completely unacceptable.” In his interview with New York, Whedon denied all of Fisher’s allegations, including that Whedon had lightened the actor’s skin tone. The director then jokingly said that if Gadot wanted to get rid of it, she would have to “tie him to a railroad track and do it over his dead body.” Whedon explained, “Then I was told that I had said something about her dead body and tying her to the railroad track.” Gadot, responding to the interview in an email, replied, “I understood perfectly.” Apparently the concern arose when Whedon and Gadot argued over a scene she wanted cut from the film.