The British television series we were missing.
Sex Education is everything the audience was waiting for. Witty and daring at the same time, it is unafraid to touch topics such as gay sex, emotional rejection, female orgasms and compatibility of souls in a fresh way never treated before.
For a modern generation, the message this series brings is the importance of being well-informed and the difficulty many audiences today still have of receiving a proper sex education. Now…what is that? It differs from person to person and is embraced in a different way according to our values and cultures, but it is still a matter of public health. How much longer will so many topics be treated as taboos and hidden under the carpet?
The storyline follows Otis Milburn, an average student whose mother is a sex therapist. By pure chance, Otis ends up playing the role of an unauthorized sex therapist for his peers at school, also becomes known as “sex kid” while earning some money on his way of becoming popular.
I love that the series embraces the differences of each character and is not afraid to address the topics of sexual assault traumas and self-harm in a delicate way.
The show's aesthetic evokes an uncertain time period and location as the events develop in the fictional English village of Moordale, where modern technologies coexist with symbols of previous decades rendering the scenery interestingly relatable to any place really.
Basically, what happens in Moordale happens everywhere, teenagers and adults have the same problems, self-doubts and struggles as anyone who ever lived.
Personally, every time I watch a British television series for me it's the equivalent of phenomenal acting and this series does not fall short.
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