It took us two years to find Otis, Maeve, Eric, Adam, Aimee, and more… a little gang of sex-ed teenagers, still tickling their hormones, making one last lap on Netflix.
Indeed, Sex Education – one of the platform’s best series, with a rating of 4.1 out of 5 – was unfortunately canceled before its 4th season. So it’s time for fans to say goodbye to their favorite sex-crazed characters.
Created by Laurie Nunn, the series was an immediate success upon its launch on the streaming platform, quickly becoming one of its flagship programs. However, with the cast quickly growing up and outgrowing their roles as high school students, it seems like the right time for the series to end.
What is the fourth season about?
The season begins with our characters a bit estranged from each other, a lot has happened since we last saw them.
Maeve (Emma Mackie) has gone to America to study literature at a prestigious institution, while Otis (Asa Butterfield) stays at home with his mother Jean (Gillian Anderson), overwhelmed and alone with a new baby and now attending Cavendish Sixth Form College. .
Everyone has to decide what will happen in his life. For Maeve and Otis, it’s about continuing a long-distance relationship that begins with an exchange of nude photos, leading to a very funny scene.
Even if it’s treated in a comedic tone, the sequence highlights the difficulties they’re still trying to overcome, each with their own baggage that sometimes “strains” the relationship.
The first to mock and support Otis is of course Erica (Nkuti Gatwa), who has not lost his sense of humor despite his own problems. She’s no longer with Adam (Connor Swindells), who is now looking for a job instead of going back to school.
This already seems like a busy introduction, and one might get the impression that the final season of Sex Education risks having all of its narrative threads tangled up. But rest assured: each of the main characters, and there’s a lot to learn about them, is handling things with care that can be quite heavy.
Aimee (Amy Lou Wood) turns to art for healing, Jackson (Kedar Williams-Sterling) is still finding her way through life (complicated by health issues), Ruby (Mimi Keane) sees a demon from her past reincarnation, and Isaac (George Robinson) discovers that their new The school, even if it is (very) progressive, is not yet fully adapted to its situation.
Although many characters were missing from the final season, their absence was necessary in order to focus on saying goodbye to the main group. The tone is also more mature and even a bit serious at times.
At some point, you realize that there hasn’t even been a joke about sex in a long time. This is not a criticism of these jokes, but it gives the general impression that sex education has gone up a bit.
Everyone is now comfortable with themselves and their bodies, which pushes the story even further into thematic territory where they will have to become comfortable with their emotions as adults.
Source: Allocine
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