"I looked at some cheese and got an erection.": SEX EDUCATION on Netflix

I bet he is.

Ok so very weird but I also thought Danish and was calling him the hot Dane until I looked it up.

Watched s2 on a dull Sunday. It continues to be...fine. I will give them props for making drunk Otis a pure shithead.

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.

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.

I didn't like that final beat with the voicemail but I kind of accepted its necessity from a 'setting up s3' pov.

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.

What’s your beef with the voicemail???

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

Proud to say I called it as Wales within a few minutes

I thought it was the Pacific Northwest until I looked it up.

What’s your beef with the voicemail???

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.

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.

X-Post Ok fine I agree on b and c but I think given the situation he totally might have done it in vm.

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.

xp

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.

I've bailed on the second season. The writing took a nosedive and like a lot of second seasons it just feels rushed.

don't think you'll find many agreeing with you there

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.

I can kind of see that. Season 2s are often very difficult after a great first season.

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.

oh yeah, i totally would play candy crush during those scenes.

nice that you knew their names.

i thought it yet another absurd and hilarious detail: a school with only two teachers, who are banging

I mostly just felt sorry for Ms Sands tbh

nice that you knew their names.

Hahaha. I was close to these people!

And aye, I felt sorry for her too.

Jean Milburn used up the entire village's attractive adult male population.

population ----> Jakob

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!

September 17th

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7oeGbdbUQQs

No sign of Eric? Funny that some of the students look as old as the new headmistress.

worth a bump to say S3 starts this month (sept 17).

gonna have to borrow a netflix password for this

We (still) got Eric!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmgYlYw7Uwk

They've really up their ante for male nudity. Good for them!

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.

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.

Ah ok. I vaguely remember now.

I've been racing through and it benefits this year from a non-relationship storyline. Still a bit all over the place at points though, especially on the French trip episode when it feels like everything is being taken apart solely to put it back together again later in the series.

There's a bit in ep 6 where Gillian Anderson turns completely into her Thatcher persona, and it kills her character more than a bit.

I had forgotten Hannah Waddingham was even in this till she pops up in the last episode.

I saw Ncuti Gatwa, who plays Eric, on that portrait painting show on sky arts and I was quite delighted to discover he has a Scottish accent.

Gatwa was born in Nyarugenge, Kigali, Rwanda,[10] on 15 October 1992[11] His father, Tharcisse Gatwa, who hails from the Karongi District, is a journalist with a PhD in theology.[12][13]

Gatwa was raised in Scotland, primarily in Edinburgh and Dunfermline. He attended Boroughmuir High School and Dunfermline High School and graduated from the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Glasgow with a BA in Acting in 2013.[14][15]

Got to the end and although I enjoyed it more than S2 I found it hard to stay in the reality of the show for lots of reasons I will elaborate more on in a couple of weeks once we're a bit further out of spoiler territory.

UnMooreddale.

S3E4: We finally see the other teachers at Moordale!

Amy is such as adorable character as is the actor.

Not too spoiler-y, but I'm glad they rescued "Breathe Your Name" for that one scene.

Renewed for a 4th season.

Amy is by far the best.
every scene she is in is just a joy to watch.

Have watched 3 eps of s3 and so far it’s just as great as it ever was. I love what they’ve done with Ruby and the backstory to her brittle bitchiness.

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.

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.

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.

I spent some time in the Wye Valley this past summer. It is absurdly beautiful.

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