In January of last year, Netflix debuted what may be the raunchiest show yet on the streaming service, the British-produced, eight-episode teen comedy Sex Education. The perhaps unlikely premise of the show centers around shy, awkward teen Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield), who is so conflicted about sex that he has serious trouble even masturbating, much less hooking up with a partner.
The cause of his deep-seated confusion about his own adolescent sexuality? His mother, a professional sex therapist, who is played on the show by The X-Files’ Gillian Anderson.
But despite his own inner turmoil about sex, and also due to his mother’s influence, Otis finds himself as his school’s resident sex therapist, counseling his fellow students on their own issues with intimacy.
As complicated as life gets for young Otis, Sex Education Season 2 sees things get even messier and more difficult to untangle.
Otis appears to have matured enough to actually maintain a relationship with steady girlfriend Ola—only to discover that Ola’s dad is having sex with Otis’s mother. As if that isn't enough of a complication, the school’s misunderstood “bad girl” Maeve has now developed a serious attraction to Otis, after he spent most of Season 1 pining for her in futile fashion.
But no character’s teen sex life goes smoothly in Sex Education. Otis’s best friend, the openly gay Eric, appeared in Season 1 as if he were going to end up in a romance with Adam, the school bully—whose abuse of Eric turned out to be an overcompensation for his fear that he, too, was gay. Which he was.
But in Season 2, Eric’s wait for Adam to return from military school gets derailed by a new, gay student who arrives at the school from France.
And while all of these romantic entanglements grow increasingly confusing for the show’s ensemble of teen characters, their whole school is suddenly stricken by an outbreak of chlamydia.
All eight episodes of Sex Education Season 2 hit the Netflix streaming platform on January 17.
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