'Everything I Know About Love' Is a Nostalgic Ode to Female Friendship

Though the title of Peacock's new comedy, Everything I Know About Love, hints that the series will be about romance, the twentysomething comedy contains surprising emotional depths, exploring the unique and formative bonds between women and the way those relationships grow and change over time.

Everything I Know About Love is, in many ways, precisely the show you think it will be: A tale of four millennials struggling to find jobs, love, and a sense of purpose in the immediate aftermath of life at university. And the series perfectly captures that strange, exhilarating, frequently overwhelming feeling of life in your early twenties, when the training wheels come off, and there are no class schedules or due dates to tell you how to organize your life or succeed in its trials. But although the marketing materials seem to want to brand the series as a sort of younger, brasher Sex and the City knockoff, the men in this story are secondary, and romantic relationships take a firm backseat to the friendships at its center.

Don't get me wrong; this show is a love story. But it's a love story about friendship and the way — especially for women — that these intense relationships can and do often mean more to the story of your life than any sexual or romantic partner you may have.