SEX EDUCATION: A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES [review]
So many folks in my twitter feeds talked about this show and it caught my attention. Judging from the title, you can see this show would talk a lot about sex so for those who is not comfortable about this particular topic, you might need to think twice about watching this series (or maybe you should watch this, but you need an open-minded buddy to watch it together).
Sex Education is a Netflix original series, starring Asa Butterfield (yes, the ickle cutie who was in Hugo) as Otis Milburn, an awkward teenage boy who lives with his sex therapist mother. As a teenager in modern society, he is an inexperience virgin boy while everyone around him has discovered sex and performed it. One day, he and Maeve, a girl in his year who has promiscuous reputation, found Adam, a high school bully, hiding in a old abandoned toilet because he has been consuming Viagra and it caused him to feel jittery and have his penis in fully erect mode--and not in a good way. Otis tried to help by giving him the advice about owning his own narrative. Maeve witnessed that and took it as an opportunity to earn money by opening a sex consultation clinic for Moordale Secondary School students.Like I've mentioned before, you need to be open-minded and not to be grossed out if you want to watch this series. Why? Because they talked about sex here, a lot (uh, the title itself is pretty self-explanatory) and it's not only about the intercourse, but also the other aspects of sex (including lesbian sex and vaginismus issue). Asides of that, this series also shows the difficulties of parent-teenagers relationship such as Otis with his mum, Adam and his dad/headmaster of Moordale, Jackson with one of his mums, etc. I do think this series needed to be watched by parents with teenagers, especially when they have reached puberty phase.
So far I enjoyed watching this. It's very funny but somehow also educating in the same way. The characters are also well-written and realistic. My favorite character is Maeve Wiley, because she's such a badass and despite of her negative reputations, she just doesn't give a damn about it and actually she's really smart. I hope in the next season, they would expand the characters more and the other sex issues that hasn't been mentioned in first season.

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