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

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.

Sven and the coffee machine

The French trip is fucking epic!!

mais oui

So much happens in an episode it’s nuts.

“you were a dick to me all term, you don’t just get to erase that with one phone call”

“but that’s exactly how apologies work”

he’s right, but little does he know, someone else has apologised already, so if she takes this to heart - it is correct - he’s strengthening the case for his rival :/

i don’t know why i put that in italics

Right, just up to them getting on the coach for the French trip. Seeing some flaws in the show the laurel resting or whatever that struck me in the first part of the 2nd series. maybe too much everybody needs to be paired off with somebody all the time.
BUt it is something I'm likely to stick with until at least the end of teh series I'm on. Does seem to have regained some form of balance.
Seemed to be consciously quirky which isn't a good mix in a lot of situations. Formula over nuance and seems to have swung back a bit from there.

just finished it. This show is so incredible. I was basically bawling. If you looked at the scripts on paper it would probably look trite and melodramatic. But these people are REAL. Eric! My god!! Adam! Oh I just want to hug them all.

Not sure how much into spoilers territory I should get here. But a general thing about this show is how relentlessly, brutally moral it is. Characters - eventually - get exactly the amount of happiness and comfort that they've earned. Even if life is unfairer to some than others. You cheat, you lie, you will get dinged for it. Guaranteed. You tell the truth, you come clean - you will be rewarded. Life isn't really like that. But we want it to be like that. And there's just this immense pleasure - and/or dread - of watching comeuppances unfold, or of watching honest graft pay off.

I just got to the end of series 3 last night. Is that the end point? Or is there more due?

S4 is confirmed.

i love this show

otm about eric i love him and his smile so much. adam too, just perfectly portrayed & acted, so human. he even looks like his dad. rahim too, just the best, that whole plot w/ the bus toilet was incredible, his arc w/ adam & poetry was so good. ruby's arc i just loved so much, she became one of my favorite characters

i've never really cared for otis all that much tbh he kind of has that entitled nice guy attitude. like he's major self-centered dick most of the time but occasionally has some good things to say so he wants all this credit. ok dude. you're petty and small much of the time.

i wanted maeve to experience a little more joy in s3, she deserves it bc she has to carry so much. i also wanted her to get w/ isaac instead of otis.

jakob got like 100x hotter in s3 and i can't really handle when he is onscreen bc of it

cal saying to jackson "you understand this would be a queer relationship, right?" was so good that whole scene was so well done

yes

jackson’s confused but interested look, alert, freaked out, trying to be cool, and i’m wanting cal to help him, answer the questions jackson surely has, but that’s so much to put on someone who’s that age and still figuring it out! what, is cal supposed to be the nb queer whisperer guru teacher in addition to everything else? and then they say as much later, listen, it’s enough what i’ve got going on, i can’t carry you. cal deserves some joy too

totally

i feel all of that

something i was confused about was the “school forum”. did that happen? did it happen offscreen? i guess that’s where they made their film and rehearsed the teaches of peaches?

in any case i thought the way that was treated was really unexpected. i was anticipating a real michael clayton style gotcha - the recording played over the PA for all the press to hear. but they didn’t do that. it wasn’t about the head teacher. it was about them. and their movie was.. weird? naff? fuzzed out and amateur? the sound kind of too low, the picture quality bad? they could have made it a clean home run, a triumph, but it was so anarchic and messy and uncomfortable

realised part way through that Adam reminded me of Simon Ritchie / Sid Vicious to look at

Forgive the thread spam, but I wanted to note that this show's 2021 season is nominated in the ILX TV poll, with voting ending this weekend:

ILX's Best Television of 2021 Poll / VOTING AND CAMPAIGNING THREAD / Voting Ends After January 31, 2022

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!

I delayed watching Season 3, I wasn't sure I was ready! But having almost finished it now--did a lot of things get choreographed like REALLY broadly this season? Whole insights and plot developments went by in one or two lines, sometimes feeling like just a device to move things forward? It made the progress seem too easily won, for me. Feels like they painted themselves into a corner with the student forum and then just made it go away. Hope was really well written and played, though, wasn't she?? The terrifying insidiousness of the evil in the guise of respectable banality.

Don't love how Lily's storyline was played. At all.

At the same time I think I laughed more at this season than any other, and Jean continues to be the most relatable character to me by miles and miles, but I also love Eric, he's really the voice of reason and living in your own truth in S3, isn't he? He fought so hard in the first two and he's becoming himself so beautifully.

Jakob is SMOLDERING hot and absolutely infuriating, I want his stuff off my counters too and PLEASE STOP SHOUTING. Aimee is a pure pleasure, the most genuine person. Love every bit of the arc with her and Maeve and their support of each other, how sometimes you get the family you get, and sometimes you get the family you make.

Ahh I love this show so much!

The outro song of the last episode just made my heart explode.

I hope Maeve In America is its own story arc and not an excuse to not have her in the cast all season. I look forward to the consistently execrable American accents (although Cal's is pretty good--oh that's because they're from Minneapolis, which I just looked up!).

dua saleh was great in this, and her music is damn good too

i'm thinking back to lily's story l4urel and yeah it was a bummer.. what specifically didn't you like about it?

I truly thought things were going to take a darker turn. The harm done to Lily was so profound I was worried they were taking it to a self-harm place, esp since she hadn't been to school and didn't know about the student revolt happening. The big musical scene at the same time as Lily was possibly about to hurt herself seemed especially garish and performative. I really thought they were purposefully contrasting Lily's suffering with the other kids getting over-hyped in a spectacle that didn't do anything to heal the students most hurt by Hope's oppression. Like a lot of things this season, I thought big gestures were used in place of character development or a more painstaking plot.

I really like what you said about how moral the show is! You're a much more keen critic of media than I am.

really good posts yall, and voodoo chili is otm about Saleh

I'm sure it's been noted, but Eric's sojourn in Lagos was a wonderful part of the season

SO lovely. I would like them to say more about how he felt seeing his intersecting identities all represented, but I get that they have a lot of story and a growing cast of central-ish characters to get through.

is it wrong that I think of Jakob as dime store Mads?

I definitely do. Of course a dime store Mads is still worth a fortune.

Hm I don't really see it, plus they're from different countries

I thought the same thing, and wish he had been cast as a wink to their Hannibal relationship.

Eric Is The New Dr. Who!

Amazing

Lily & Ola depart:

https://ew.com/tv/sex-education-tanya-reynolds-exits-series-before-season-4-lily/?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VgJotJx8Iio

Final Season Drops September 21st

Trailer NSFW

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WldgrH9SvbE

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.

The reviews are not good, but I'm looking forward to checking in with our old pals anyway.

Have watched first episode. Lots of changes but still great. Absolute ROFL at one bit.

Oh man, that Ep 4 cold open...

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