As I just posted in the next flix thread by mistake (3x) Jacob is hot.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 24 February 2020 08:52 (four years ago) link
yeah. I’m a het man but every time the camera lingers on him for more than a second or two I need to cross my legs
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 February 2020 08:54 (four years ago) link
His eyes oof.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 24 February 2020 08:55 (four years ago) link
i am dying to know about the Jakob 3xs person. I was looking him up under Babylon Berlin?
― Yerac, Monday, 24 February 2020 08:56 (four years ago) link
Rahim was treated dirty in this.
― Yerac, Monday, 24 February 2020 08:57 (four years ago) link
oh derp. Jakob. Yes. The other thread confused me and I thought you had a thing for gingers. yes mf'ing tall swedes for the win.
― Yerac, Monday, 24 February 2020 09:00 (four years ago) link
He coded as Danish to me but we didn't check
― imago, Monday, 24 February 2020 09:02 (four years ago) link
yeah i felt legit terrible for rahim - he did everything right and still got the shitty end of the stick
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 February 2020 09:03 (four years ago) link
jakob's cocky grin - man, what a dreamboat
― Generous Grant for Stepladder Creamery (bizarro gazzara), Monday, 24 February 2020 09:04 (four years ago) link
i thought danish too and then i checked.
― Yerac, Monday, 24 February 2020 09:08 (four years ago) link
maybe it was playing true to young love where you choose the person that treated you like shit but who at least made the base level amount of apology for it. (eric/adam)
― Yerac, Monday, 24 February 2020 09:37 (four years ago) link
The actor who plays Jakob is vg in (the Swedish, non-Branagh, superior) Wallander; his cocky grin plays a starring role in that but he's handy with his meaty old fists too.
― Tim, Monday, 24 February 2020 09:43 (four years ago) link
I bet he is.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Monday, 24 February 2020 11:05 (four years ago) link
Ok so very weird but I also thought Danish and was calling him the hot Dane until I looked it up.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 24 February 2020 11:20 (four years ago) link
Watched s2 on a dull Sunday. It continues to be...fine. I will give them props for making drunk Otis a pure shithead.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 24 February 2020 11:36 (four years ago) link
God I love this show so much.
All the cars are from the 80s too. And the bikes. And Otis' clothes are straight from photographs of my brothers in the 70s.
And I adore all the houses. So much. And the roads. Em and I talked about moving.
It feels a little like Breaking Bad to me in its own awareness of its status as a TV programme, and the hieightened reality that goes along with that - the colours, the costumes, the sets, that slight air of visual and narrative unrealness that allows the emotions and characters to actually seem even more real.
Adam's arc had me in tears in the last episode about three times.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 24 February 2020 14:59 (four years ago) link
Honestly I'd probably have liked it more were it not for the final beat with the voicemail. The whole scenario was contrived and shitty in both concept and execution in a way most of the show manages to avoid being.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 24 February 2020 15:01 (four years ago) link
I didn't like that final beat with the voicemail but I kind of accepted its necessity from a 'setting up s3' pov.
― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Monday, 24 February 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
Em and I talked about moving.
Ah, the Forest. Where I was told by an estate agent DURING A VIEWING that I wasn't Foresty enough to buy a house there.
― Doubling down on out of date information (aldo), Monday, 24 February 2020 15:19 (four years ago) link
What’s your beef with the voicemail???
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 24 February 2020 15:24 (four years ago) link
tt keeps badgering me to take us to the Forest of Dean and learning that this show is filmed there will probably not alter that
― imago, Monday, 24 February 2020 15:26 (four years ago) link
Proud to say I called it as Wales within a few minutes
― imago, Monday, 24 February 2020 15:27 (four years ago) link
I thought it was the Pacific Northwest until I looked it up.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 24 February 2020 17:14 (four years ago) link
On a show that's ostensibly about the need for communication and openness, it feels like a cheap stacking of the deck to have a character we barely know diabolically intervene to counter a straightforward attempt at said communication. And as other people objected: a) who confesses love in a voicemail? b) why would she leave her phone behind at all? c) does she not have a passkey or fingerprint check like everyone else? Because the plot needs it to happen in order to keep things delayed, is why, not to serve the themes/thesis.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 24 February 2020 17:19 (four years ago) link
Definitely feel like the ending of S2 was setting up a potential coercive control storyline for S3.
I watched both series in the space of a week, if that, and loved it. Thought the non-specific style, time and location was great in setting up a slight suspension of disbelief, and probably was good for making it a bit more universal.
― michaellambert, Monday, 24 February 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
X-Post Ok fine I agree on b and c but I think given the situation he totally might have done it in vm.
― Benson and the Jets (ENBB), Monday, 24 February 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
I had the same thought, not really about the mechanics of it (although considering the casual approach to time periods & technology, maybe they should have just given her a landline & answering machine!), but that communication is such a primary theme in the show. And I hate plots that rely on miscommunication/misunderstandings (that could easily be resolved if characters actually had a conversation) for too long.
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― change display name (Jordan), Monday, 24 February 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
which contrarily was what worked about the Rahim storyline, here's a character who's so upfront and transparent and mature, but the people around him are just not like that (yet, presumably), incl his partner, and he winds up screwed because of it.
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Monday, 24 February 2020 17:31 (four years ago) link
I've bailed on the second season. The writing took a nosedive and like a lot of second seasons it just feels rushed.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:05 (four years ago) link
don't think you'll find many agreeing with you there
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:08 (four years ago) link
Ech. My appetite was more than sated with the first season and, to murder that metaphor, all of that nourishment started to feel like excess. I found Maeve (who I totally fell for: who didn't?) increasingly unbelievable and the more they explored the different characters the more they seemed to hollow them out. I may just be dead inside.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:13 (four years ago) link
I can kind of see that. Season 2s are often very difficult after a great first season.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
If I could pinpoint a moment when I thought, nah, I can't be bothered any more: the first glimpse of the relationship between Hendrix and Ms Sands.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:17 (four years ago) link
oh yeah, i totally would play candy crush during those scenes.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:28 (four years ago) link
nice that you knew their names.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:29 (four years ago) link
i thought it yet another absurd and hilarious detail: a school with only two teachers, who are banging
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:31 (four years ago) link
I mostly just felt sorry for Ms Sands tbh
― bold caucasian eroticism (Simon H.), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:32 (four years ago) link
Hahaha. I was close to these people!
And aye, I felt sorry for her too.
― Vanishing Point (Chinaski), Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:33 (four years ago) link
Jean Milburn used up the entire village's attractive adult male population.
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:35 (four years ago) link
population ----> Jakob
― Yerac, Wednesday, 11 March 2020 12:36 (four years ago) link
Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2020 season is nominated in the 2020 ILX TV poll:
ILX's Best Television of 2020 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 29, 2021
If you like this show and you'd like to see it have a good showing in the poll (running in February) all you need to do is submit a ballot including it and your other favorites (3 minimum, 25 maximum, ranked by your favorite to least favorite) to forksclovetofu at gmail. It'll take five minutes; get to it!
― the serious avant-garde universalist right now (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 21 January 2021 19:40 (three years ago) link
September 17th
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oeGbdbUQQs
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 19 July 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
No sign of Eric? Funny that some of the students look as old as the new headmistress.
― blatherskite, Monday, 19 July 2021 17:19 (two years ago) link
worth a bump to say S3 starts this month (sept 17).
― that's not my post, Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
gonna have to borrow a netflix password for this
― he ain't perfect but fuck me he's a rheillee (imago), Wednesday, 1 September 2021 16:16 (two years ago) link
We (still) got Eric!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmgYlYw7Uwk
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 8 September 2021 15:46 (two years ago) link
They've really up their ante for male nudity. Good for them!
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 17 September 2021 23:27 (two years ago) link
I'm only 2 episodes in but the new series seems rather unfocused. I can't even remember Otis going out with Ruby even being a plotline in s2.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 19 September 2021 13:50 (two years ago) link
He got drunk and lost his virginity to her at his party, further bonding w/her during a mad search for Plan-B pills the next day.
They probably should have emphasized that more in the recaps tho.
― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 19 September 2021 13:53 (two years ago) link
Ah ok. I vaguely remember now.
― Heavy Messages (jed_), Sunday, 19 September 2021 14:03 (two years ago) link
I definitely do. Of course a dime store Mads is still worth a fortune.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 15:55 (two years ago) link
Hm I don't really see it, plus they're from different countries
― rob, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 16:00 (two years ago) link
I thought the same thing, and wish he had been cast as a wink to their Hannibal relationship.
― blatherskite, Wednesday, 2 February 2022 17:40 (two years ago) link
Eric Is The New Dr. Who!
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 8 May 2022 20:49 (one year ago) link
Amazing
― dan selzer, Sunday, 8 May 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
Lily & Ola depart:
https://ew.com/tv/sex-education-tanya-reynolds-exits-series-before-season-4-lily/?
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 July 2022 00:49 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgJotJx8Iio
Final Season Drops September 21st
Trailer NSFW
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 6 July 2023 03:35 (nine months ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WldgrH9SvbE
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 12 September 2023 20:12 (seven months ago) link
Saw that it dropped last night, not seen any of it yet.Had assumed that Ncuti having been cast in another significant role might have meant it was over.But looking forward to watching it.
― Stevo, Thursday, 21 September 2023 12:11 (seven months ago) link
The reviews are not good, but I'm looking forward to checking in with our old pals anyway.
― trishyb, Thursday, 21 September 2023 13:07 (seven months ago) link
Have watched first episode. Lots of changes but still great. Absolute ROFL at one bit.
― groovypanda, Thursday, 21 September 2023 15:16 (seven months ago) link
Oh man, that Ep 4 cold open...
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 3 October 2023 01:31 (six months ago) link
https://www.businessinsider.com/look-inside-sex-education-house-up-for-sale-otis-jean-2023-10
The iconic house from the hit Netflix show "Sex Education" has gone on the market for £1.5 million, or around $1.8 million.The Norwegian-inspired chalet, which is located in the English village of Symonds Yat in the Wye Valley, dates back to 1912 when it was used as a salmon fishing lodge, real estate agent Knight Frank's website says.
The Norwegian-inspired chalet, which is located in the English village of Symonds Yat in the Wye Valley, dates back to 1912 when it was used as a salmon fishing lodge, real estate agent Knight Frank's website says.
― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 9 October 2023 17:56 (six months ago) link
I thought this season was mostly good, but the extended descent into metaphysical nonsense absolutely had me rolling my eyes. Mostly satisfied with the ending though.
― the new drip king (DJP), Monday, 9 October 2023 18:00 (six months ago) link
I keep seeing Ncuti here and wondering how or if it is going to tie in with his performance as the Doctor. Nit really seen the breadth of hys talent since I've mainly seen him in this and Barbie and I'm not sure that's even a shaped part.
― Stevo, Monday, 9 October 2023 18:05 (six months ago) link
I spent some time in the Wye Valley this past summer. It is absurdly beautiful.
― dan selzer, Monday, 9 October 2023 18:08 (six months ago) link
And if you're in the area, make sure to visit the cute little tourist town filled with bookstores, Hay-on-Wye, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hay-on-Wye
I found the liberal plot points gish gallop to be delightful and how zero characters ever pushed back on any of it whatsoever at any point
― the absence of bikes (f. hazel), Monday, 9 October 2023 18:26 (six months ago) link