Sex Education is a new comedy series on Netflix that promises to make you “laugh, cry and cringe.” The series debuted this week and as evidenced by the title, is all about sex.
Unlike recent YA originals on Netflix — see To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before, Dumplin’ and Sierra Burgess is a Loser — these high schoolers are doing more than dancing around the romantic idea of sex. They’re hungry for it, and they’re having it.
The series that casts Asa Butterfield as Otis , a sweet, unassuming 16-year-old outcast whose single, free-loving sex-therapist mum Jean (Gillian Anderson!) is always embarrassing him with her lack of boundaries. After watching him give some surprisingly great sex advice to a fellow student, Otis’ rebellious crush Maeve persuades him to set up his own informal therapy practice on campus and cut her in on the profits.