So I just finished Sex Education season 3, and this was a major downgrade compared to the last two seasons. There were a lot of problems with the season that many pointed out, such as Eric being a terrible boyfriend and a terrible person honestly and same for Otis to an extent. However, there’s one thing that made me the most upset out of every decision made in the season:

Jakob not being the father is genuinely the stupidest decision that was in the show so far.

The way I saw it, Jean and Jakob’s relationship was one about trust, both in eachother and their partners. I thought it was really interesting how it’s revealed both Jean and Jakob’s previous partners had cheated on them, and especially for Jakob, it shows. He’s closed off from other relationships and commitments because of that trauma he has, outlined by the talk with the therapist. I thought it was a very smart and interesting storyline to have these two people who have been so hurt by love bond in that pain and bond through Jean’s pregnancy, and I thought it was a great story arc for Jakob to learn to trust, to trust in other people and their ideals even though he’s been hurt by that in the past. It showed in his lack of faith in therapy, in lack of faith that the baby wasn’t his, and I THOUGHT the show was leading all of this to give him a powerful story about learning to trust after trauma.

And then, they revealed Jakob wasn’t the father.

Genuinely what was the idea here. If someone has an interpretation of this decision that makes sense then please let me know, but this decision absolutely ruins Jakobs character and what his character was trying to tell. Like genuinely what are we supposed to take away from his character? He has trust issues from his previous marriage, yet he’s slowly learning to trust again, all for the show to just be like “no he was right in the first place not to trust Jean and not to have faith in her or any of her ideals” like genuinely what is that. Jakob definitely had some negative traits that he was going through and working on in the season, and instead of going through with that, the show just reinforces his mistrust and basically admits he was correct in the first place and ignore all his growth?

Not to mention this makes Jean and her storyline also look terrible. Having to fight through those tough ideals an fight through the stigmatization of sex and therapy just for the show to, again, be like “she was wrong having casual sex ruined her relationship and all the help from therapy did nothing because Jakob was right all along to be skeptical”

This was the first thing that came to my mind when the season ended. Please if someone has a different interpretation of his character please let me know because I’m genuinely baffled by this decision the show made.

Well today i watched the show after a year and it just gave same disappointment but i guess its fair.

What i think is they should have just ended it at season 3 with tiny modifications with Eric, Adam etc

What yall think?

I’m rewatching the show and does anyone else feel like headmaster Groff is a closeted gay man? I feel like it is reflected in how he treats his son who is bisexual, and his lack of desire towards his wife. It seems like the family situation was a stereotypical family, everything about them being mundane. Sure, this isn’t a tell tale sign but I think it would make sense as to why he’s so angry all the time, as he never had an environment where he could really be himself.

I loved her character in S2 with how intellectual she was with her statistics and how she mentored Jackson etc... I would love to have a friend just like her. It was a shame that part of her personality seemed to disappear in later seasons.

Her character just seemed to have autistic traits like having a very clear timetabled schedule, how well she remembers facts about Dex, why she decided her and Eugene weren't compatible.

That could have been a good arc for her in Season 3 as I think autism is a disability that never really got tackled in this show and Viv could have been a great example of that. Jackson could have teased her and said, "It's no wonder I called you a robot."

Just finished the show, I had to get this out - considering my wife watched the show when it was airing around Covid and didn't have much memory of the show to have a satisfying conversation lol. Although it took me three sitdowns to finish the first episode, the rest of the show took me about a week, and I'm not sure if I've ever "binged" a Netflix show that fast. I'm a sucker for a good slow burn, good boy/bad girl relationship.

I can see the showrunner's attempt to make it a realistic ending. These kids are only 17 after all. And now that I think about it in hindsight, maybe Laurie Nunn was speaking to us all in S1E4 in the pool scene when Maeve bashes rom-coms and grand gestures. But it never felt we got any reward for following this couple for four seasons. Sure, they kinda got together in Season 4, but every episode was a tiresome loop of Otis fucking up, the couple not talking, and Otis having to make yet another apology at the end.

The last season made me nostalgic for the first. It was disappointing how Otis and Maeve got less and less screentime together as time went along, and it was mostly apologizing after the aforementioned constant fucking up. You could argue Season 1 was the peak of Motis. The only sweet scenes we seemed to have gotten after that were the birthday gift and Maeve's confession in Season 2, and the first kiss in Season 3 which even that didn't solve anything.

Also, I hate how anticlimatic of a storyline Otis's voicemail and Isaac deleting it became in Season 3. It seems like something that should have ended the Maeve/Isaac arc when she found out, I was really disappointed she had forgiven him in one episode.

Overall, I still enjoyed the series and thought the initial characters were very well-written. Everyone had a backstory or redemption arc. But by the middle of the series, every add-on character the writers apparently thought needed the screentime of a main character. And then the new ones in Season 4 were just an annoyance.

Despite all his faults, I was still hoping Otis would end up with Maeve, but by the end of Season 4, after all his screw-ups I did start growing tired of him. Him blaming all of his issues on others, him being an asshole to Ruby who somehow kept helping the worse continued to get, and then his mom. The book she started writing about him in Season 1 was out of line, but for the most part I thought it was terrible how he treated her. Teenage hormones and all.

Anywho, my heart aches now with the unsatisfying ending and if anyone else has some other good show recommendations with slow burn (preferrably rewarding) relationships, I will take them. Some of my favorite have been Frasier, Castle, Superstore, and Smallville.

so im almost finished with season 3 and i know season 4 has gotten alot of mixed reviews. i just wanna know if its worth watching for the sake of the characters and stories that have been built up over the previous seasons - i dont really care how obnoxious new characters may be. is it worth it for wrapping up the past three seasons?

I just finished season-3 and it's hard to hear that season-4 is not going to be good because I started watching this show as comfort show and tbh I liked maeve at the start but as things stand now I just don't like her, like first she was with Jackson and didn't care about otis a bit and after she practically broke Jackson's heart for something I don't understand she was single again and now she started having feelings for otis even though he clearly has a gf he is happy with she unnecessarily meddled in their life and otis and ola broke up

And now that they both are single and otis really tried to apologize to her for telling her true personality at the party,and even though otis apologized multiple times she didn't care and good guy issac deleted otis voice mesg just so he could be with her so what would you do when you spoke something from your heart to someone just so it could get ignored for months (from otis pov) And now that she was with issac and otis was with ruby eventually they broke up and otis was again single but she didn't care much this time because she was with issac that time whose heart she eventually broke because she had a kiss with otis and isaac broke up with her for which I have mad respect for him and now that she is again single and otis is also single apparently she started to like him again 😭Tf

So this was all just a rant and tell me what you guys think about

Apparently this is my 1st post in about

1.5 years since I started using this app :) :) :)

After 4 seasons I honestly feel like Maeve and Otis deserved a real ending and proper closure. Their story was built up for so long and it just felt a bit disappointing and unfinished in the end. I know not everyone will agree but it felt like a let down after everything their characters went through together.

I think a movie in a few years could actually work really well. Netflix loves bringing shows back through nostalgia and revivals, so I honestly wouldn’t be surprised if they revisited Sex Education one day. Laurie Nunn has also spoken before about how some of the characters endings still keep her up at night, which makes it seem like there are stories she’d still want to tell. The only thing is that by then some of the actors might be too big or just want to move on from the show, so it could be difficult to get everyone back.
It would show where everyone is now, what happened after school and maybe finally give some proper closure for Otis and Maeve. I’d definitely watch it.

What do you all think? Would you want a spin off movie or do you think the ending was fine the way it was?

Okay I have had this discussion with my bf and he disagrees I want to see if I’m the only one. I think Maeve did Otis so dirty. She just pops in and out of his life the whole show especially season 4. She came back from America and told Otis she wasn’t going to leave him after Otis had discussed that he was scared of a heartbreak meltdown because of his trauma walking in on his mum breaking down over his dad. So Maeve knew Otis was scared and she said she wasn’t going to leave him. THEN SHE JUST DOES!!! she leaves him again. And don’t get me wrong I love Maeve’s character I relate so deeply with her but I just can’t understand why it’s not acknowledged that she put Otis through so much shit!!!!!! Just for him to be a learning experience for her. Otis truly loved Maeve and Maeve opened up and loved him but was unstable and didn’t know what she wanted and in the end it screwed over Otis now he’s left heartbroken right in the position Maeve said she wouldn’t leave him!!! And I understand she needed to explore her dreams in America and had amazing opportunity’s but I just feel like Otis was Maeve’s punching bag the whole show!!!!!

FriendlySpaceNinja said on a YouTube video that Sex Education should have been a one season miniseries. Do people agree with his opinion?

In the very first episode of the show Eric mentions how everyone is shagging except for them(and it is for the most part true), and Otis, who is one of the only characters in the show who don't have an active sex life is a sexually repressed character who has issues with his own sexual desires.

Maybe I'm just a prude, but like, am I the only one who thinks this is a bit weird? I mean, back when I was in high school most people didn't have an active sex life, as a matter of fact thos who had lost their virginity were the outliers. Obviously the show is meant to be entertaining over realistic but I felt curious about other people's thoughts on this

Do you have some clothes of sex education?

I just do one rewatch every year, but i can't get over...

Also a special maeve-otis mention

Ik there was a lot of unnecessary trouble that was put in between them throughout season 4 just to make the ending more emotional but like let's be honest, we can't possibly deny that the few romantic/cute scenes that they gave us in season 4 were top tier, like when

1.Maeve comes into the car from the hospital and he holds herhandw, quietly offering his support and the way she stops for a second and takes it, showing the comfort she has with him LIKE😭

2.When he silently offers to sleep on a cot beside her bed instead of constantly being with her bcuz he realised the friendship and comfort aimee offered her was a lot more than he could and THE FACT BOTH OF THEM SKIPPED DAYS OF SCHOOL AND DIDN'T TALK TO ANYONE JUST TO BE WITH HER????

3.Their entire date scene was just honestly really cute, maybe cringe but it was very cute, I just hated that joanna had crashed it bcuz they just wanted to spend time with each other

1. Lastly, we're taking the fact that maeve told otis "I love you" very lightly, bcuz we just expect it to happen after sm angst and drama but we need to remember that throughout the show, she has never told anyone that, for the kind of personality that maeve has and how much she's closed off people her entire life, that "I love you" in itself was pages worth of affection and care that she had for otis and I'm pretty sure he also knew that considering how close they were

I'm just saying all this cuz like there's a lot of otis hate in season 4 and like yeah he was not the best guy but we need to remember he himself had a lot gng on and he tried his best throughout to be the best boyfriend to maeve. I quote Eric when I say "When maeve is around, nothing else matters to him".

So like even though s4 drastically reduced what they could've been, it was still a lot🥹

Season 1, episode 2 around the 28:40 mark where Maeve is in the bathroom doing the pregnancy test. There's a song playing in the background in Aimee's house which I can hear in my headphones but not on speaker. It has a good beat, what is the song?

I already searched it up online but couldn't find it. It was posted before 7 years ago, but maybe someone knows it

Never forget the real victim I hope what ever you are doing is going well and you find peace in your life

idk honestly tho

Ive just finished the show, and went trough this sub. Ive seen many posts on Cal hate, and everything is just "Their personality is 90% being nb." Yeah thats the point. As a Trans person myself, that is, infact, what affects u the most in puberty. This is what affects ur relationships, so no, Cal wasnt just a placeholder for a nb person. It was showing actual struggles and how it does infact affect EVERYTHING. Cal's character perfectly showed what it feels like. And all the misgendering Cal in this sub just makes me think that a nb person speaking out about struggles that are actually real + "making it their whole personality" is just transphobia. This is probably gonna get a lot of downvotes.

No, cuz I'm just watching and I finished s3 and I felt like that could've actually been the ending for the series, cuz it was all perf and everyone was heading towards growth (well except Jean whose story is left open) and like if needed they could've just added a few details from the s4 ending like the declaration of love and them sleepiny together but like still kept the "ig this is goodbye" "No it's see you soon".

I'm asking cuz everyone is saying s4 ruined it for them and like I really really love this show rn and I don't wanna end up hating it or smtg and like I had to give myself a huge amount of therapy saying this was similar to how fast and furious is going on,it actually ended at f7 or f5 for the fans and the rest are just casual movies and I should watch s4 like a casual season too instead of having any emotion towards it

Pls help😭

The way Cardigan, August and Betty (Taylor Swift) align with Maeve, Ruby and Otis POVS is so wholesome. I know it’s a classic unresolved teenage love triangle but I can’t stop thinking about the parallels every time I listen.

And I somehow wonder how people read my face so quickly…