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Sex Education

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Sex Education

Series Details & Credits

Netflix | Release Date: January 11, 2019

Summary: Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) decides to form a sex therapy clinic with "bad girl" Maeve after it is revealed his mother (Gillian Anderson) is a sex therapist in this dramedy created by Laurie Nunn.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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S4:E8. Episode 8
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78

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Radio Times Lauren Morris

Dec 2, 2021

Season 3 Review: There’s very little to complain about when it comes to Sex Education’s third outing and those who loved the first and second seasons will be thrilled with the upcoming episodes, which set the same raunchy tone and tell similarly important stories about adolescent love. Read full review

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Paste Magazine

Leila Jordan

Sep 17, 2021

Season 3 Review: Sex Education isn’t just unafraid of awkwardness; it embraces it earnestly and turns it into a wonderful thing. Read full review

90

The New Yorker

Sarah Larson

Jan 21, 2020

Season 2 Review: For the most part, the storytelling in Season 2 continues to be masterly—plot arising from character and observation, almost all of it tremendously satisfying. But as Otis’s behavior deviates farther and farther from what he might advise others to do, culminating in an excruciating scene of drunken public jerkiness, I found myself wishing that the writers had made different choices, my suspension of disbelief pierced. Other elements help compensate. Read full review

80

The New York Times

James Poniewozik

Jan 9, 2019

Season 1 Review: The series strains at first to establish the procedural format: a little bit “Masters of Sex,” a little bit “Doogie Howser, XXX.” But it blooms, over eight episodes, into a smart, sensitive look at teens finding their place and figuring out the owner’s manuals for their bodies. Read full review

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The Guardian Lucy Mangan

Dec 3, 2019

Season 1 Review: Iimmaculately, densely written, glorious creation. ... And it’s funny. Endlessly and seemingly effortlessly funny, in a naturalistic way that doesn’t have you listening for the hooves of the next gag thundering down a well-worn track but, like Catastrophe, catches you almost unawares and makes you bark with laughter. Read full review

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TV Guide

Megan Vick

Jan 14, 2020

Season 2 Review: While the second season retains much of the spirit of the first season, there were also many moments where I wondered what exactly Sex Education is trying to say. Read full review

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The Independent Ed Power

Jan 3, 2020

Season 1 Review: Eager to please but confused, Sex Education could do with a stint on the therapist’s couch itself. Read full review

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spaacer

Jan 20, 2020

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I saw the season 2 in just one day this new season bring some important things that we need to talk more about like gay/lesbian relationships, assexuality, sexual assault and the power if women get together.… Expand

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Dryjs0n

Feb 11, 2021

The first time I saw a recomendation from Netflix about Sex Education I was curious what is it about, so I've played it...and turned it off after the first scene, where they were having sex. I thought to myself "oh well, it's another show that will try to make young people think that sex isThe first time I saw a recomendation from Netflix about Sex Education I was curious what is it about, so I've played it...and turned it off after the first scene, where they were having sex. I thought to myself "oh well, it's another show that will try to make young people think that sex is the most important thing in life". So I quit and didn't open it for 2 months, until I was so bored that out of curiosity and so much free time I gave it another chance. I was totally blown away. Started watching at 8pm, wanted a quick 1-2 episodes and finished 1st season at 3am. The show was so good, everything that was there I could relate to real life in one way or another. Next day, the moment I woke up I started watching 2nd season in one session. Now, even tho it's been 3 days, I can't wait for season 3. Idk what happened to my brain but I've fallen in love with this show. Characters, plot, problems of their world are so ejoyable to watch, I couldn't even stop to make myself something to eat. Some people may say that there is too much of an LGBT+ content, but I think it's very good that there is such a big variety, because it may teach some people that LGBT+ are still humans with emotions, which is really important to know this nowadays.… Expand

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Bertolt

Dec 11, 2021

It shows the diversity of sexuality and refect much about the problem in school

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MrDog3

Jan 20, 2020

The show is following teenagers, and it is following it in a perfect way, teens are just like these (i know it 'cause I was a teen a few years ago). It broke my heart, two times in a row, and I was so sad to watch it, but it was so perfect in the other hand.

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morganbob

Oct 26, 2020

I don't know why some people didn't like it. The show is so much fun and funny. I loved it

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NobodyYouKnow

Sep 13, 2022

Good show that is deteriorating in season 3. The first couple of seasons explored sexuality in a fun/interesting way, and the show did a good job of making you care about the characters. However, season 3 started bordering on the absurd in its effort to entertain, and the show suffers forGood show that is deteriorating in season 3. The first couple of seasons explored sexuality in a fun/interesting way, and the show did a good job of making you care about the characters. However, season 3 started bordering on the absurd in its effort to entertain, and the show suffers for it. Turning it into a TV-MA version of High School Musical just did not work for me -- the show works better as a dramedy. They're also making some of the characters too simplistic. Most disappointing is the new headmistress. They've turned her into this one-dimensional, draconian authoritarian. She's now making some monumentally stupid decisions which undercut her goals, and this makes no sense since she's obviously smart enough to realize that.

And Sex Ed has gone the route of many other pandemic-era shows and chosen to virtue signal. Unfortunately, this detracts from the overall narrative. They use the Cal character to beat the viewer over the head with the challenges faced by non-binary people. Cal doesn't talk like a real person; they talk like a well-intended but heavy-handed script. It takes me out of the reality they face. In contrast, the show deals with Eric's journey in a much better way by showing rather than telling/preaching. His trip to Africa is critical to his journey and the challenges he faces as an openly gay man trying to find his place in the world. His struggle with the contrast between his current relationship and what he experienced/felt on that trip rings true. This is in part because the show lets Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) *act*. With Cal (Dua Saleh), the writers rely almost entirely on exposition, and the unfortunate result is I feel I'm being preached to. If the writers want to change minds, they need to show the characters' humanity via their journey. Treating the audience like middle-school kids who need to be taught is not effective.

I haven't finished season 3, but I'm hoping the writers spend more time showing us the depth and struggles of the characters and less time preaching.… Expand

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S1epaNYch1

May 18, 2020

Don’t even wanna watch that **** Like one genius said : “I want pizza. I sniffed ass”.

1 of 2 users found this helpful11

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Series Overview
Season 4

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  Air Date: September 21, 2023
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Season 3

83
- Season 3 Overview
  Air Date: September 17, 2021
Season 2

83
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: January 17, 2020
Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: January 11, 2019