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Creator
Laurie Nunn
Cast
Gillian Anderson,
Asa Butterfield,
Ncuti Gatwa,
Emma Mackey,
Kedar Williams-Stirling,
Aimée-Lou Wood
Genre
Comedy,
Drama
After having grown up with a sometimes too frank sex therapist mother, insecure teenager Otis Milburn had always been ambivalent about sex. However, after accidentally assisting a bully with his performance anxiety, Otis sets up a bustling sex advice business with his rebellious friend Maeve.
Sex Education is truly a great Netflix series. Plucking some inspiration from classic teen films throughout the decades, the show feels both familiar and completely original. With its fascinating and seemingly endless string of great characters, the show will suck you into their lives before the end of the first episode.
This series is one of Netflix's best, with a story that will make you crack up one moment and tear up the next, thus perfectly encapsulating the awkward emotional roller coaster that is the teenage years. The entire cast is phenomenal, making it easy to get invested in the characters' lives – even the ones you might hate initially. Overall, Sex Education's only flaw is that there aren't more episodes.
Radio Times by Lauren Morris
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.
The Telegraph by Benji Wilson
Now it knows exactly what it is. The writing, and particularly Taylor’s direction, ooze confidence as we flit from heartfelt tête-à-têtes that could be from a Nineties romcom to some riotous comic set-pieces. It is terrific fun throughout.
The Independent by Fiona Sturges
In its third outing, the series remains cringingly honest and engagingly heartfelt, with just the right amount of pathos and the occasional outrageous sight gag.
The A.V. Club by Saloni Gajjar
Season three builds on the magnetism of the two previous installments to become the show’s best offering yet.
The Guardian by Lucy Mangan
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.
The A.V. Club by Kayla Kumari Upadhyaya
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.
The Telegraph by Helen Brown
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.
Paste Magazine by Leila Jordan
Sex Education isn’t just unafraid of awkwardness; it embraces it earnestly and turns it into a wonderful thing.
TV Guide by Megan Vick
The shining through line of Sex Education is the dedication to both the physical and emotional messiness of sex.
Entertainment Weekly by Kristen Baldwin
Sex Education blends teen sex-romp tropes with a refreshing level of empathy. [11 Jan 2019, p.44]
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