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Critic Reviews
Radio TimesDec 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.
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The GuardianJan 17, 2020
Season 2 Review:
Every performer is wonderful, not least because the script is wonderful, playing the sex for laughs and the search for intimacy as something serious, good and noble. Not a single character is a cipher – even the smallest parts have a sketched backstory and some good gags.
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Jan 9, 2020
Season 2 Review:
Season two packs in an astounding amount of stories that have real heart and skin to them, while also allowing significant space for pansexuality, queer sex and queer desire, bisexuality, and asexuality. It’s sprawling and intimate all at once, like several personal diaries strung together.
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The TelegraphJan 3, 2020
Season 1 Review:
Ultimately, this is a show with an unexpectedly wide appeal. Twenty-first-century teenagers are going to find real comfort and companionship in these characters, while those of us old enough to have seen those John Hughes movies at the cinema will wish Sex Education had been there for us.
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The PlaylistOct 5, 2020
Season 2 Review:
The parent’s problems feel minor to those of their offspring and their storylines can be a bit too drawn out. “Sex Education” easily overcomes that minor quibble because Nunn and her cast have created a universe of characters that you inherently want to root for. And it’s so entertaining that after eight almost-hour long episodes it somehow feels like a quickie. And, yes, that’s a compliment.
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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.
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Jan 11, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Sex Education is pretty much the most adorable show I’ve seen in a long time. It’s frank and sincere and gleefully awkward. As an anatomy of teen sexuality, it’s basically peerless, and it offers a thoughtful script, a strikingly good cast and a heart-forward story about “owning your narrative.”
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The PlaylistSep 10, 2021
Season 3 Review:
The drama that springs between characters isn’t as earthshaking as the drama rising at Moordale, and this may be “Sex Education”s most important detail. ... Nunn makes the world rumble with her overarching plot instead, and so “Sex Education” lets us feel, put in a word, good. But it doesn’t ask us to look away from all that makes us feel bad, either, and that’s even better.
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Sep 21, 2023
Season 4 Review:
New characters bring a freshness to the season, with their relentless positivity and openness, and they are well-cast. They adore Eric from the first moment, but they’re less convinced about Otis, which creates some nice tension between the loving friends whose bond has been a highlight of the series.
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Radio TimesSep 21, 2023
Season 4 Review:
Imperfections notwithstanding, Sex Education season 4 is a wholly satisfying conclusion to one of Netflix's best original shows to date. Nunn successfully launches a raft of new characters at this late stage, while taking much of her existing roster into bold and compelling new directions.
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The IndependentJan 16, 2020
The GuardianDec 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.
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Jan 14, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Under Nunn and directors Ben Taylor and Kate Herron (each of whom helm four episodes), this is a series that modernizes the genre to embrace every kind of kid--the sportos, the motorheads, geeks, sluts, waistoids, dweebies, dickheads, all of 'em!--and without pandering to any singular point of view in doing so.
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Jan 11, 2019
Season 1 Review:
There’s the usual problem of Netflix drift for an episode or two midway through, where the plot dawdles while the writers and producers figure out an ending. Yet there’s an artfulness to the material and a genuine care on display here, too--a message that we are not just about the size and shape and inventive uses of our private parts.
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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.
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Jan 8, 2019
Season 1 Review:
The result is a wonderful ensemble in which every character is presented one way, usually for immediately comic value, and then taken to unexpected or, if slightly expected, compassionate places. The supporting characters and performances deepen as the show goes along.
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RogerEbert.comJan 7, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Sex Education won’t be for everybody. The humor is often very dark, the awkwardness so cringe-inducing it can be difficult to watch. But like a well-meaning teen therapist, its intentions are so good that it’s difficult to hold much against the series. Like a generous partner, it’s willing to experiment and find a balance that works. And like sex--like good sex anyway--it’s often an absolute pleasure.
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Jan 7, 2019
Season 1 Review:
Anderson is a comic delight. (Her enthusiastic delivery of the phrase “man milk” will stay with you.) And unsurprisingly, she’s terrific in the more dramatic moments when Jean tries to help her son deal with his own trauma. Butterfield is enormously charming, palpably vulnerable and deft with the jokes, like the hero of a movie John Hughes wrote for a young John Cusack but never got to make. ... A standout new teen comedy.
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Sep 21, 2023
Season 4 Review:
Season 4 was not always what I wanted it to be, but the series finale was. It brought those silly small moments back. It made me remember why these kids were so endearing in the first place, and why I’ve loved watching this show for so many years as I grew up alongside these characters.
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The PlaylistSep 22, 2023
Season 4 Review:
Nunn and her creative team clearly want to do something different for their send-off; and they also want to do too much. And while the show’s heart remains intact, like one of its characters, Season 4 opts to sacrifice some of it to make a statement. The result? “Sex Education” at its weakest and most uneven, even as the cast remains in top form.
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Jan 10, 2019
Season 1 Review:
"Sex" is not for everyone (pun intended), but if you're game for explicit scenes and dialogue and appreciate English wit, it's a cheerfully hilarious (but safely distant) return to puberty. If any series can make adult viewers appreciate getting past that life stage, it's this one.
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Jan 4, 2019
Season 1 Review:
It’s a far-fetched premise: Can you imagine anyone in high school, where gossip is a commodity and kids are desperate to look more experienced than they really are, paying to confess their sexual dysfunctions to a peer? Yet Sex Education earns the suspension of disbelief it requires. Populated by multidimensional characters with sympathetic problems, the show embodies–and espouses–some of TV’s most progressive views on sex.
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Sep 15, 2021
Season 3 Review:
It would be nice to have Otis and/or Maeve more directly involved in what’s happening at the school, but their various conflicts (involving one another as well as their respective families and love interests) are emotionally effective in their own right. On the whole, it’s a very satisfying bounce-back year.
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Jan 8, 2020
Season 2 Review:
The season’s later episodes effectively turn back towards the things that this show and only this show can do, and do so well. It’s a welcome return to what made the series special to begin with. But even towards the end, it can’t resist trying out familiar moves from many other stories about love, both young and old.
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The Observer (UK)Sep 10, 2024
Season 4 Review:
This series feels like a strangely subdued curtain call for a show that never shied away from celebrating teen sexuality at peak raunch. That said, gradually, as the episodes go by, it starts feeling like a brave, even classy move to go out, not with, as it were, a bang but with maturity and sensitivity.
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Sep 21, 2023
Season 4 Review:
Sex Education season 4 tries to spin as many plates as possible to end on the highest of highs, so it was inevitable that at least one or two would end up smashing. In the grand scheme of things, however, the positives still heartily outweigh the negatives, and sacrificing some of its earlier motifs in favor of growing up both dramatically, thematically, and emotionally makes perfect sense for a final season.
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The TelegraphSep 21, 2023
The GuardianSep 21, 2023
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