About Sex Education Season 2 – TV Series

Sex Education Season 2 TV Series Details

Sex Education is a British teen sex comedy drama television series created by Laurie Nunn for Netflix. It follows the lives of the teenagers and adults in the fictional town of Moordale as they contend with various personal dilemmas, often related to sexual intimacy. It stars an ensemble cast that includes Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Alistair Petrie, Mimi Keene, and Aimee Lou Wood.

The first series was released on Netflix on January 11, 2019. The second, third and fourth series followed in January 2020, September 2021 and September 2023, respectively.

Sex Education has received critical acclaim for its performances, writing, directing, production value, and mature treatment of its themes. The programme has been a viewership success, with over 40 million viewers streaming the first series after its debut. Wood won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance for her role in the second series and the third series won Best Comedy Series at the 50th International Emmy Awards.

STORY

Episodes 01

Otis is finally able to masturbate and becomes addicted. Fiona is rumoured to have spread chlamydia at school and seeks Otis’s help. Otis takes pity on Fiona when he sees her slut-shamed and realises how much he has missed resolving people’s sex issues. Maeve is working at a pretzel shop and runs into her mother Erin. Erin hopes to resolve their issues as she overcomes addiction but Maeve does not trust her. Rahim, a new student from France, is instantly popular at school. Ola tries to give Otis a hand job, but he is unable to get erect and worries that he has broken his penis from masturbating. They walk in on Jean and Jakob having sex and the two parents finally confess to their relationship. A parent-teacher meeting about the chlamydia outbreak leads to the realisation that better sex education is needed and Mr Groff reluctantly turns to Jean. Maeve quits her job and Ms Sands helps her try to rejoin school. Jackson is tired of his mother’s pressure to excel in swimming and purposely injures his hand. Maeve meets her new neighbours: Isaac, who uses a wheelchair, and his brother Joe. The real culprit behind the chlamydia crisis is revealed. Otis and Maeve agree to reopen the clinic.

Episodes 02

Ms Sands and Mr Hendricks unsuccessfully attempt to have sex. Otis tries to get used to Jakob being around. Maeve gets ready for her first day back at school. Jean is called in to address an assembly about sexual health. Maeve attends the aptitude programme and finds herself intimidated by others’ ambitions. Jackson has to be tutored since his success at swimming has ended, prompting him to look for a new hobby. After research into fingering, Otis tries it on Ola. She pretends to enjoy it for his confidence but tells Lily that it was terrible. Maeve realises she still has feelings for Otis after seeing him at the fair with Ola. A confused Eric wonders if Rahim is gay and is interested in him when the two ride a Ferris wheel together. Adam befriends two of the boys at military school. He later walks in on his two friends masturbating each other and, even though he promises not to say anything, they plant marijuana in his bed, leading to his expulsion.

Episodes 03

Olivia has sex with her boyfriend and covers his face with a pillow while she is orgasming. She seeks Otis’s help because she thinks she has an ugly orgasm face. Adam is back and working at a corner shop. Aimee bakes a cake for Maeve’s birthday, but on the bus to school, a man masturbates and ejaculates on her. She immediately exits the bus and walks instead. Although Aimee seems unbothered, Maeve convinces her to report the sexual assault to the police. Jackson tries out for the school play in a search for a new activity. Realising he needs help to get the lead part, Jackson turns to his tutor Viv for help. Otis and Ola have an awkward family dinner at the Milburns’ house, ending in an outburst from Otis. Rahim asks Eric on a date, which ends in a kiss and goes perfectly, but Rahim lives above the shop where Adam works and seeing Adam leaves Eric flustered. Aimee realises the assault had a bigger impact on her than she thought. After Erin’s abusive boyfriend kicks her out she arrives at Maeve’s doorstep with her three-year-old daughter, Elsie. Maeve attempts to confess her feelings to Otis, but is unable to summon the courage.

Episodes 04

Ola tells Otis she is ready to have sex, and he tries to prepare himself. Eric’s conflicting emotions lead him to confront Adam, but he is ignored. At school, Otis confides in Eric about losing his virginity. Mr Groff sees his wife visiting Jean’s sex clinic. Otis’s father Remi arrives unexpectedly, and although he and Jean try to keep things professional, they kiss and almost have sex. Aimee finds it difficult to get onto the bus again. On his way to Ola’s, Otis encounters Maeve and ends up looking after her sister while Maeve goes to a quiz competition. She finally confesses that she likes him and he angrily replies that she should have told him sooner. Otis goes to Ola but is unable to have sex. Maeve has an altercation with Isaac and Joe. Adam shows up at Eric’s and they go to a landfill site and smash objects together. Adam walks Eric home but instead of leaving, stares at Eric until he finally kisses him. Rahim asks Eric if he wants to be his boyfriend. Ola tells Otis that, if she is to be his girlfriend, he cannot be friends with Maeve.

Episodes 05

Ola doubts her relationship with Otis when she fantasises about Lily, and realises she is pansexual. Eric and Otis go on a hiking trip with Remi. Eric tells Otis about his interactions with Adam but Otis is unconvinced because of Adam’s previous bullying. Eric replies that Otis is a hypocrite because of his situation with Ola and Maeve. Maeve accompanies her mother to a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, but ends up leaving in anger. She sees Isaac and Joe and learns that Isaac is an orphan who was kicked out of his foster home. Jean admits to Jakob that she kissed Remi and they break up. Mrs Groff asks Mr Groff for a divorce and he moves into the school. Otis realises that Remi cheated on his partner and made the trip to get away from her, not to spend time with Otis. Otis and Eric make up. Eric begins ignoring Adam, and asks Rahim to be his boyfriend. Ola breaks up with Otis and kisses Lily, but Lily does not reciprocate.

Episodes 06

Otis helps Anwar to be intimate with his boyfriend. Lily avoids Ola. Otis invites a small group of friends to his house to prove to Eric and Ola that he can be relaxed. It escalates into a large house party and he gives a drunken speech insulting Ola and Maeve. Adam confronts Eric about ignoring him. Eric tells him that he cannot be drawn back to being ashamed of who he is, and that Rahim is proud to be with him, whereas Adam is not. Still traumatised from her experience on the bus, Aimee runs away when Steve touches her. Jean and Mrs Groff go out for a night of dancing. Mrs Groff says she feels more free without Mr Groff and Jean realises she misses Jakob. Jackson’s cast is removed and his parents and friends are excited that he is able to swim again. Feeling overwhelmed, Jackson has a panic attack and confesses to Viv that he injured himself deliberately. Viv later tells his mothers. Mr Groff finds Jean’s notebook with notes about the students’ and teachers’ sexual issues, including those of his wife, and prints copies of the notebook.

Episodes 07

Mr Groff puts up copies of Jean’s notebook around the school, resulting in chaos. Jean finds out about Otis’s sex clinic. Ruby informs Otis that they had sex the night of the party, although Otis has no memory of it. They go to a pharmacy to buy her a morning-after pill. Jackson and his mother have a heart-to-heart talk and she accepts that he does not like swimming any more. Eric takes Rahim to his church, where Rahim reveals his discomfort due to his family’s escape from religious oppression. Jean asks Jakob to take her back, but he says he can’t because she is not ready for the kind of intimacy he wants. Ola and Lily begin dating. Isaac tells Maeve that Erin is only pretending to go to work and Maeve confronts her, warning that she will be kicked out if she lies again. In detention, Maeve, Olivia, Aimee, Ola, Lily, and Viv bond over shared experiences of unwanted sexual advances, and they help Aimee go on the bus again.

Episodes 08

Jean tries unsuccessfully to talk to Otis about the sex clinic and they continue to avoid one another. Jean finds out that she is pregnant. Maeve and the quiz team compete at the nationals. With help from Isaac and Joe, Maeve learns that her mother relapsed into drug use and reports her to social services. Erin and Elsie are escorted out by police and Erin vows that she will never forgive Maeve. Otis and Remi have a frank conversation about Remi’s absenteeism. The school puts on a sex-charged alien-themed musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. Jackson plays the lead role. With Viv’s encouragement he is able to get over his anxiety. Mr Groff tries to stop the musical and blames it on Jean’s sex education, but Otis defends her. Adam bursts in and declares his feelings for Eric, who reciprocates, and Rahim leaves heartbroken. Mr Groff is placed on leave by the school administrator. Otis leaves Maeve a voicemail apologizing for everything and admits he loves her, but Isaac sends Otis away when he shows up at her door and deletes the message.

CAST

Asa Butterfield as Otis Milburn, a socially awkward teenager who gives sex advice to his peers
Gillian Anderson as Jean Milburn, Otis’s mother and a well-known sex therapist
Ncuti Gatwa as Eric Effiong, Otis’s openly gay best friend who comes from a religious Ghanaian-Nigerian family
Emma Mackey as Maeve Wiley, an intelligent but troubled teenager who runs a sex therapy clinic with Otis
Connor Swindells as Adam Groff, the headmaster’s son and Eric’s bully-turned-love interest
Kedar Williams-Stirling as Jackson Marchetti, the head boy at Moordale Secondary School and a swimming champion
Alistair Petrie as Michael Groff, the headmaster of Moordale Secondary School and Adam’s strict father
Mimi Keene as Ruby Matthews, a popular girl at Moordale Secondary School and the leader of the Untouchables clique
Aimee Lou Wood as Aimee Gibbs, a former member of the Untouchables who becomes friends with Maeve
Chaneil Kular as Anwar Bakshi (series 1–3), a member of the Untouchables
Anne-Marie Duff as Erin Wiley (series 2–3), a drug addict and the absent mother of Maeve, Sean and Elsie
James Purefoy as Remi Milburn (series 2; guest series 1), Otis’s father and Jean’s ex-husband, a therapist and sex addict who lives in America

PRODUCTION

Development

On 28 November 2017, it was announced that Netflix had given the production a series order. The series was created by Laurie Nunn, with Ben Taylor expected to direct. Executive producers were set to include Jamie Campbell and Joel Wilson via their production company Eleven Film. On 4 December 2018, it was announced that the series would premiere on 11 January 2019. On 1 February 2019, Netflix renewed the show for a second series which premiered on 17 January 2020. On 10 February 2020, Netflix renewed the show for a third series. As part of a video and letter to its shareholders in April 2021, Netflix’s co-chief executive officer and chief content officer, Ted Sarandos, confirmed that the third series of Sex Education was expected to be released sometime in the second half of 2021. On 24 June 2021, it was announced that the third series would premiere on 17 September 2021. On 25 September 2021, eight days after the premiere of the third series, it was announced that Sex Education had been renewed for a fourth series. On 5 July 2023, it was announced that the fourth season would be the final one.