JUST FINISHED WATCHING: SEX EDUCATION (2019–2023)

A teenage boy with a sex-therapist mother teams up with a high-school classmate to set up an underground sex-therapy clinic at school.

TRIVIA: Across all episodes the vehicles and TV sets used in the production are all late 20th century (1970-1990) models rather than contemporary 21st century ones. This has been done deliberately as it adds to the slightly unreal context of the show.

The show's British writer, Laurie Nunn, said she intended Sex Education to be an homage to the John Hughes high school films of the 1980s, such as The Breakfast Club (1985) and Pretty in Pink (1986).

Filming for the series took place along the River Wye in England and Wales, including locations in Llandogo and Tintern, Monmouthshire. The scenes set at Moordale Secondary School were filmed at the former Campus of the University of South Wales at Caerleon.

Before Ncuti Gatwa was cast in the show, he was a struggling actor and homeless for five months.

MY VERDICT: Even though I don’t think this show is really for me, I’m probably too old I did enjoy watching it. I think it portrays sex education in a way that is accessible and positive and is educational as well as entertaining. The actors are all amazing and Gillian Anderson specifically dazzles. I think the story loses its way a little in the last season and possibly the whole season was not needed but everything up to that point was perfect, in terms of storytelling and visually it’s something quite special.

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