SEX EDUCATION
The third season of SEX EDUCATION just dropped and I have been feeling so fed. The British teen dramedy follows the lives of the students, staff, and parents at Moordale Secondary School as they deal with all kinds of personal stuff—but mainly, their sex lives. The main character, Otis Milburn, is an awkward teen whose mother happens to be a sex therapist (by the way, she’s amazing and I wish every school in the country had someone like her around). In the first season Otis and his friend Maeve create a sex therapy business to help his hormonally charged classmates. In the latest season, the school is kind of flipped on its head, thanks to a new headteacher (played brilliantly by GIRLS’ Jemima Kirke). We see Otis come out of his shell and hit a stride in his own sex life, and we get deeper look in the lives of some of the other students like his best friend Eric (my personal fave) who is a gay first-gen Nigerian student navigating a new relationship and what it means to be queer in his home culture. I truly love this show because of the diversity of experiences, and of characters, and the rawness with which it tackles some really complicated issues. If you haven’t yet, go watch now, on Netflix.
—Eden Bekele, Digital Associate
