Warning: This review contains spoilers for season two of Sex Education.

The second season of Netflix’s Sex Education premieres on January 17, and for the most part it’s the same sweet, raunchy show we’d come to love when the first season aired last year. Much of what was great about season one is back, from Gillian Anderson’s masterful performance as sex therapist and well-meaning mom Jean to Asa Butterfield’s nerdy, kindhearted son Otis, who accidentally follows in his mom’s footsteps when he becomes his school’s go-to sexpert. Ncuti Gatwa is back and better than ever as Otis’s best friend Eric, a queer Nigerian-British teen torn between his old crush, Adam (Connor Swindells), and an intriguing new exchange student (Sami Outalbali).

Sex Education is the rare show that celebrates sexuality in all of its awkward, beautiful forms and expressions, making sure to telegraph to the audience that sex is nothing to be taken lightly; it’s fun, sure, but it can be one of our greatest sources of anxiety, and for all too many people—women in particular—genuine pleasure can come second to wanting to feel desired. The care and attention to detail established in season one makes one particular plot point in season two all the more disappointing.

In the seventh of the season’s eight episodes, Otis wakes up after a raucous party at his house with an unfamiliar girl in his bed. It’s Ruby, one of the über-mean Untouchables who run his high school. Her first words to him are: “Good morning. If you tell anyone about this, I’ll destroy your life.”

As Otis and Ruby discuss the previous night, it becomes clear that they had sex; as Ruby says to Otis, “I’m not here for your company.” What’s disturbing, though, is that Otis appears to have absolutely no memory of it. He’s just lost his virginity to Ruby, an event he had previously hoped would be meaningful—he had even broken up with his ex Ola because he didn’t feel strongly enough about her to have sex—and neither of them can even remember whether they used a condom, setting in motion a humiliating trip to the drugstore for the morning-after pill.

Otis’s experience is in no way unrealistic or unique; many young people have sex while under the influence of drugs or alcohol, with a 2011 study of undergraduate students finding that nearly 61% used alcohol during their most recent hookup. Drunk sex absolutely happens, and we should talk about it, but the troubling aspect of what happens to Otis in Sex Education is that not once does anybody raise the issue of consent.