Sex Education started out as a funny and thought-provoking show about secondary school students somewhere in England. I appreciated that the show runners had taken pains to mix European and American culture and obfuscated the time setting, so as to make the appeal more universal.
The ensemble cast did quite a good job in a storyline aimed at highlighting real-life personal problems of teenagers in a somewhat light-hearted way. LGBTQ+ issues were dealt with without sensationalizing or glorifying it. On the whole it was a solid show that deserved its accolades.
All that was undone in season four. A bunch of characters from the previous seasons were unceremoniously dropped from the storyline and the remaining students were parachuted into some kind of LGBTQ+ fantasy land. Any pretence of realism went abruptly overboard and, boy, did it go far off the rails! The cherry on top of this departure from the original tone is when an LGBTQ-friendly god literally comes down to earth...
It left me wondering if Netflix tasked an AI to write this season and then lost control of it. Or maybe, they just didn't care.
The ensemble cast did quite a good job in a storyline aimed at highlighting real-life personal problems of teenagers in a somewhat light-hearted way. LGBTQ+ issues were dealt with without sensationalizing or glorifying it. On the whole it was a solid show that deserved its accolades.
All that was undone in season four. A bunch of characters from the previous seasons were unceremoniously dropped from the storyline and the remaining students were parachuted into some kind of LGBTQ+ fantasy land. Any pretence of realism went abruptly overboard and, boy, did it go far off the rails! The cherry on top of this departure from the original tone is when an LGBTQ-friendly god literally comes down to earth...
It left me wondering if Netflix tasked an AI to write this season and then lost control of it. Or maybe, they just didn't care.