Sex Education review: this 'kind comedy' climaxes with its most mature and progressive series yet

By Deborah Shaw, Professor of Film and Screen Studies, University of Portsmouth

Netflix’s hit show Sex Education is back for its much-anticipated fourth and final series. The show follows Otis (Asa Butterfield) as he reluctantly becomes his school’s resident sex guru – despite having little experience himself – thanks to years of second-hand sex education from his mum, Jean (Gillian Anderson), a sex therapist.

Over the past three seasons, we’ve watched as Otis and his friends navigate their awkward teenage years as love, life and sex present them with all sorts of obstacles.

There…

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