Sex Education

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Season 2
  • Network: Netflix
  • Series Premiere Date: Jan 11, 2019
Season #: 4, 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.2

Generally favorable reviews- based on 149 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 114 out of 149
  2. Mixed: 11 out of 149
  3. Negative: 24 out of 149
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  1. DiogeneLaerzio
    Jan 30, 2020
    3
    the show is utter trash, jokes are cringe most of the time, and hit you like a brick without a shred of delicacy, characters are card-boards and stereotyped to the point of no return, someone decided to change this from a pseudo-infotainment teen comedy to a drama, because damn we want to look serious.

    This travesty of a show is terribly written and even a blind monkey could tell this,    the show is utter trash, jokes are cringe most of the time, and hit you like a brick without a shred of delicacy, characters are card-boards and stereotyped to the point of no return, someone decided to change this from a pseudo-infotainment teen comedy to a drama, because damn we want to look serious.

    This travesty of a show is terribly written and even a blind monkey could tell this, the fact that critics are giving this show more than a 6 shows how people should stop trust art journalists about their reviews. Who on their right mind would give this live-action transposition of the "how do you do fellow kids?" meme more than that? And I am probably being generous.

    If this was an anime series people would be outraged on twitter and poking fun about how cringe it is, but since it's coming from the western world everything is quirky and ingenious.

    If you want to look at something dealing with fetishes and sex while being actually funny, look no further and read Interspecies Reviewers or watch it since they are adapting the manga right now. Or bask in this mud if you like it, you do you. But don't call it chocolate since I can even hear the stench coming from my screen.    … Expand
  2. Panchogul
    Jun 19, 2020
    0
    Serie de porquería como todas las horrendas series y películas de Netflix.
  3. Ludensludens
    Jan 25, 2020
    0
    To be honest, I liked to see this. But now it's different. This is like completely spoiled milk. The ending of the drama was very awkward. Maybe it's a torture waiting for the next season to come out like this. Why? The story goes on and the ending ends like a fool. The drama has a lot to say to the audience. And the story is a mess. Because the people who made this **** threw themTo be honest, I liked to see this. But now it's different. This is like completely spoiled milk. The ending of the drama was very awkward. Maybe it's a torture waiting for the next season to come out like this. Why? The story goes on and the ending ends like a fool. The drama has a lot to say to the audience. And the story is a mess. Because the people who made this **** threw them everywhere. Not a single story has been arranged. Throughout this season, we can't feel the love of teenagers. Oh, there is only one thing we can find out. Oh, **** This drama is ****… Expand
  4. Bonbon4o
    Jan 20, 2020
    0
    season 1 was way better. season 2 started good, the first two episodes seemed promising, then it became a **** No culmination at all. bararely any build up. s2 feels like a filling just to milk the series even more so to make season 3...
  5. ps77
    Jan 20, 2020
    0
    This is by far a **** I’ve seen, i mean why!!! Why just make a porn about teenagers and call it a series!!! Just for messing with teenagers head and encourage them to be a sex slave?!!! Man screw this ****
  6. Flipje
    Apr 1, 2020
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I have always had mixed feelings about this show. I initially didn't like it and found the blatant and over-the-top subject of sex far too...well... over the top. When a show broadcasts its theme in such a blaring away, I roll my eyes. The first episode of season one reminded me of those scenes in movies where a character is shown to be an alcoholic by the vast number of empty bottles left behind in their office or kitchen. I know films are limited in how much information they can convey and it was the same here. Kids shagging in the hedges or against a tree. Okay, this is on the nose. No thanks. I stepped away. Family and friends told me to give it another go. Fine. I gave it another chance and accepted from the first season onward, nuance was never this show's strong point. Yet the first season redeemed itself by discussing the great and complicated aspects of sexuality. This was intriguing and rewarding and if anything, provided an honest, compassionate approach to teenagers. This show stepped away from what I assumed would have been an 'American Pie' style TV series. Characters became three-dimensional. It was pleasant to see normally background characters retain something integral and dignified to their presence. Meanwhile, the leads, though charismatic, quirky and fun and filled with promise were hampered with your basic, run-of-the-mill love triangle. So yes, in the background, diverse and interesting characters were exploring their sexuality and selves, the main roles jumped through the hoops of your standard romantic comedy. It was rewarding and frustrating at the same time. Somehow, I still enjoyed it. This second season, however, amps up the frustration level in that the romantic comedy tropes are everywhere. Like with Stranger Things, another Netflix prodigy, the show doubled everything for season two. There are now two love triangles (Maeva-Otis-and Maeve's new neighbour contrasted with Eric-Rahim (new boy in school)-and Adam). There are two sex therapists at the school: Otis now has competition in the form of his mother. The catch: she offers sexual advice for free. There is more unnecessary and unfulfilling drama - every episode is exhausting with cringe moment after cringe moment. Also, there are suddenly more bi-sexual characters. This in itself is perfectly fine yet it feels like the characters were given this new agenda with only the motivations of the screenwriters in mind. ("Hey, let's make the girl madly obsessed with male genitalia in season one suddenly and for no reason or with any care to the rules of story-telling...bi-sexual." "Great idea, makes sense. It is 2019 and characters should be this way even if we haven't made any indication to the audience beforehand." "It won't seem forced at all.") And at the same time, there are numerous borrowings from film: The Breakfast Club (the girls placed in detention), Mean Girls (the acquisition of Jean's notebook detailing the sexual lives of the students) and every romantic gesture moment in the last three decades of romantic comedies (Adam this time). The borrowings themselves make the (d)evolving story clunky and less organic. This time around, there are few genuine moments and the characters put on clichéd hats of villain and good guy. For instance, the whole Adam must make a grand gesture moment at a school production of Romeo and Juliet felt especially appalling and unrealistic. So, Eric now will love this guy and Rahim is out in the cold. Rahim is diminished as a character for the sake of this moment. He is no villain and there is no reason to paint him as such. This was unnecessary and unearned. I started to wash the dishes at this point because the show had finally lost me. Still, in the background, I saw it through. Honestly, I really didn't care anymore because this felt less like a story with individuals and more this lumbering Frankenstein monster trying to make it to the finish line to get season three going. Season one is worth a watch but if you're the type of person that gets angered by cliché and lazy resolutions and characterizations, I'd let season one remain a good memory. Stranger Things devolved as well. Money over substance at work, binge-watching at its banal and most bloated.… Expand

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#26 Best TV Season of 2020
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#21 Most Discussed TV Season of 2020
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Metascore
83

Universal acclaim - based on 11 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 10 out of 11
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 11
  3. Negative: 0 out of 11
  1. The Playlist
    Reviewed by: Gregory Ellwood
    Oct 5, 2020
    91
    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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  2. The New Yorker
    Reviewed by: Sarah Larson
    Jan 21, 2020
    90
    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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  3. The Daily Beast
    Reviewed by: Melissa Leon
    Jan 21, 2020
    80
    Otis, Maeve, and Eric’s stories are the meat of this season, but the most compelling threads emerge when the show grants unexpected complexity to characters in the periphery.
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