Sex Education – UK

A little bit Skins, a little bit Degrassi, and a whole lot of fun, Sex Education focuses on awkward teen Otis and his extraordinary knowledge and understanding of sex, which he has gained from growing up with a sex therapist mother. Though he’s still a virgin himself, he starts a teen sex therapy clinic at his school with a rebellious classmate named Maeve. (Their own romantic tension ensues, of course.) It offers a bracing mixture of erotic candour, humour, pathos, and fun, with an endlessly watchable performance by The X Files’ Gillian Anderson as Otis’s mother. (She’s doing her best Emma Thompson, which is the highest of compliments.) An absolute addictive delight that will take your mind right off the news. Available on Netflix.

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