As part of the Kanbar Event Series, the Cantor Film Center hosted a free screening on Thursday evening of the new comedy “Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life.” The show, which airs on Fox, follows a group of friends as they navigate life post-graduation.

Amid today’s slew of period dramas, this is a fresh and modern feel-good comedy that is completely relevant to millennials. The format of each episode is that of a cautionary tale, teaching various life lessons. At this particular screening we were taught “How to Survive Losing Your Phone” and “How to Survive Being a Plus One.”

Jack Cutmore-Scott stars as the title character, a recent college graduate who is still trying to figure life out now that he’s out of school and in the real world. NYU Tisch graduate Justin Bartha plays his older but not necessarily wiser brother, Josh. The show boasts a light-hearted, “New Girl”-y feel. It doesn’t take itself too seriously and it encourages the audience to do the same.

After the screening, the audience was treated to a Q&A with five of the stars, Jake Cutmore-Scott, Meaghan Rath, James Earl, Charlie Saxton and Justin Bartha. The session was casual and candid, filled with camaraderie, laughter and more than a few curse words.

Bartha, the oldest of the five, said older generations can still relate to the show.

“I think everyone’s a mess,” Bartha said. “No one ever knows what they’re doing and I think everyone can identify with that.”

Saxton added that the show make the older demographic feel nostalgic for a different time.

“I feel like our generation that’s watching can sympathize, and I feel like an older generation that’s watching will be able to reminisce, if you will,” Saxton said.

The discussion was then opened up to the audience for questions such as if the cast watched any other Fox shows or what their advice would be to young, aspiring actors. When asked to share one word they’d choose to sum up their twenties, the stars responded with words like “turnt,” “drunk” and “unicorn.” The fun, lax event appropriately concluded with the castmates filming the enthusiastic audience up on their feet waving and cheering.

Although there is a slight screwball, absurdist element to the comedy, it effectively and quite realistically portrays a group of good friends just going through life and failing hilariously many times along the way.

“Cooper Barrett’s Guide to Surviving Life” airs on FOX on Sundays at 8:30 p.m.

A version of this article appeared in the Feb. 8th print edition. Email Daria Butler at [email protected].