Is Sex Education Worth Watching?
Sex Education is a British Netflix original about a high school student who uses his mother’s expertise as a sex therapist to impart sex advice on to his classmates. It currently has two seasons on Netflix, with a third in the works. The first season mainly follows a structure of one client per episode of Otis and Maeve as they attempt to run an underground sex therapy clinic in their private school for cash. The show is startling in its frank and straightforward take on teenage sex. As the central theme, there is a high volume of sex and nudity in the show, but it doesn’t feel gratuitous or tacked on. It feels baked in and a part of the world in a way that most sexy teen drama’s fail to do (like Riverdale). The world seems fully developed and an honest reflection of what high school should feel like. There are sex-crazed, sex-curious, and sex-ambivalent characters all coexisting and gaining equal time in the spotlight. The show presents fully realized and three-dimensional characters of all sexual orientations. It’s marvelously well written and acted, and the backdrop of rural Britain is just the icing on the cake.
Rating: A – Entertaining, judgement-free, and shockingly informative
Show Title: Sex Education
Release Date: 1/11/19
Genre: Drama
Where to Watch: Netflix
Seasons: 2 (3rd forthcoming)
Number of Episodes: 16
Showunners: Laurie Nunn
Starring: Asa Butterfield; Gillian Anderson; Emma Mackey; Ncuti Gatwa
Production Company: Eleven Films
Distrubuted by: Netflix
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