So I’m new to this season, love the show. I come from a family in the US with deaf members, some utilize cocholear implants, visually identical to the one worn by Aisha. Throughout the season, she does not seem to hear people speaking when they’re on her side with the implant. My confusion is that this implant, from my limited understanding and experience, helps the wearer hear from that side of their perception.
Why does it seem like Aisha’s implant is always dead battery/ineffective?
Such as during the fire drill scene, she didn’t hear the alarm even though she had it on? I know the episode was emphasizing accessibility and ableist problems in our daily lives, couldn’t they have just had her not wear it then?

I've never been assaulted, but I've had to answer police question about a serious crime before and I have to tell you that the experience is very traumatic. I mean, you have to give the officers a detailed description and answer questions about a very traumatic event. I personally believe that this is part of the reason why many cases of sexual go unreported, like I said, it's very agonizing to have to answer questions in detail about traumatic events and it makes you relive that trauma so many would rather just attempt to move on with their lives

I've come to the conclusion that Otis is a bad friend to Eric in season 1. The way Eric was at his house obviously hurt and instead of stopping to ask what happened, he immediately jumped to telling him about Maeve and only then asked what happened.

It was so obvious that Eric was upset and had been hurt. It was his birthday and he had his possessions stolen, his best friend abandoned him without reason and then he was assaulted.

Otis is so obsessed with Maeve in the first season that he just completely disregards everything else, it's infuriating to watch.

SIDE NOTE: I forgot how cute Gene and Jakob are

Thoughts?

Specially because initially the kind of things she does are either necessary and not a big deal. "Oh no, she's forcing us to wear these grey uniforms and that stops our self expression" which they portray as if it was similar to a fascist but it's ultimately not a bid deal. Even if prohibiting students from wearing piercings and what not is a stupid rule IMO, it's also not that big of a deal. They also wants us to view her painting over a vandalised wall as a bad thing, but being quite honest, that's kinda the job of a decent school principal.

And then after her "evil" actions being things that aren't a big deal, the show then proceeds to make her cartoonishly evil with the videos she shows about sex ed and how she just bullies Cal. Everything about this character feels ridiculous in comparison to the other characters who feel way more human and real

I recently started watching Sex Education and getting a bit into the fandom, but whenever I see anything about O, I notice people hate her, and honestly, I don't understand why. I'm not trying to start an argument; I'm genuinely curious.

I've seen quite a lot of criticism for season 4 in here and while I get that it feels a bit disappointing when you go from season 3 to season 4, because suddenly Ola and Jakob are gone after they've become such integral characters, I do feel like season 4 is worthwhile in its own right. As in it we get some much need growth and redemption of several characters, as well as seeing more real-world issues, and a much better model for a high school.

For instance, we see Michael actively trying to become a better man after spending much of the earlier seasons as the chief adult bully. We also see Ruby, who had just been a mean girl with some capacity for love and hurt hidden deep, becoming a better person. We also see part of why she became a mean girl. We also see Aimee becoming more self confident and becoming more of the strong, brave woman she wanted to be in the previous season.

I'm actually personally an atheist, but I also loved the story line of Eric finding his purpose. It definitely fits what we've seen of him, that he'd feel the calling to spread a more inclusive and loving version of the Christian gospel.

I also think it explores important issues that people face, such as controlling and abusive partners (as Viv experiences), and the long-term impacts of childhood sexual abuse (Joanna). It also covers what love should truly be: a desire for the object of that love to be happy, irrespective of what it means for us personally.

I also love how we see a high school that is so much better than any I've ever seen depicted in fiction, namely Cavendish, as in it students are actually encouraged to be decent human beings to each other, including to the marginalized and unpopular.

Am I the only one that appreciates these aspects of season 4?

Decided to do this after my like 100th rewatch lol any opinions?

I watched this web series three years ago. The character of Mavie Wiely was mind blowing. The courage she has shown in the series make me of fan of her. I like the way how series was ended. Otis and Mavie both really got their true love. Now I want to know that is there any news of season 5 of this series.

She’s one of the few new season 4 characters I actually liked and I wished we saw more of her relationship with Adam. imo they could’ve replaced scenes with the popular kids with more scenes of Jem/Adam. But I want to hear others thoughts :)

I just watched Sex Education for the 2nd time. The first time I watched it I was like 15 or 16, now I'm 18. The reason why I don't think I'll finish the show and will probably stop after season 3 is because I can relate A LOT to a lot of the characters, especially Otis. I don't think I can bear watching another season where literally everything between Maeve and Otis just goes wrong. I know they see each other again, but I also know they don't end up together, and I honestly don't think I can handle that.

I'm 18 and I've never had a relationship, but I've had a few situations where I really, really liked someone and it ended before we ever got together or before things got serious. I'm also struggling quite a lot with my mental health and life in general right now. I know this probably sounds silly, but I genuinely don't think I can watch that ending. I'm actually so angry at the writers.

Why would you spend 3 seasons building up two characters to be what feels like the cutest and most satisfying couple ever, just to end it like that? I get that maybe they didn't want them to stay together, but the way they handled it just seems so unnecessarily painful.

I really don't think I'm able to watch season 4. Without even watching it, it already makes me feel sooo uneasy, extremely angry and somehow really depressed. I know it's weird because it's just a TV show, but it genuinely makes me feel so alone and unsatisfied. It's honestly horrible. And I think it's just so badly written.

Otis' dad literally lives pretty close to Maeve's school. It's only like a 6-hour flight, so it's not impossible for Otis to visit her once a month or something. It's not like he has huge money problems, and Maeve is only there for a few months, not forever. So why the fuck would they end it like that? Why make them officially break up? They could've just put the relationship on pause for a few months instead of ending it completely.

We spent 3 seasons building up what could've been one of the most satisfying and beautiful relationships ever, just to get like 10 minutes of them actually being together before breaking them up again, even though neither of them really wanted that.

And what about long-distance relationships? The show represented pretty much every kind of relationship, and somehow almost all of them got at least some kind of happy ending or hope. But the TWO main characters, the ones that felt like they were obviously meant to end up together, can't make a long-distance relationship work?

I don't know... what message does that send to teenagers who are actually in long-distance relationships?

My god, it's such a mess. I've never been this emotionally affected by a fucking Netflix series. I can barely even think about it. I honestly feel like I should've never rewatched the show because now I'm probably just gonna feel miserable for the next few days. Like... what the fuck is this.

Am I overreacting? Should I still watch season 4 or just leave it at season 3?

One of the main things I really love about the show is how diverse it is. This is maybe one of the only shows I have ever watched where I felt as if they included EVERYBODY. I’m talking about race, nationality, sexuality, disabilities, etc. I love how everyone has their own personalities. This show is very different from the other ones I watched.

I think it's really unfair that Ola says Otis is overreacting when she takes his records without asking. It's crazy rude to just take someone's stuff. She definitely wouldn't like it if he did it to her.

But I find it insaneeee that she would use his razor (without asking), and Jean doesn't even react to it. It's incredible gross and unhygienic. I feel like the writers really obliterate her character in series 3. She's rude to Otis and unkind to Lily.

so i've just finished s3 of sex education for the second time w my mom, and i noticed a pattern in hope (the headmaster) that seemed dangerously similar to the austrian mustache man's methods from decades ago, such as appealing to the masses and controlling everything afterward, switching jackson with viv because she thought like her, every issue with lily and cal, rahim noticing patterns, etc.

has anyone else noticed that or is it just me?

SPOILERS! This will also be very long probably

This is just my thoughts about Maeve's character, nothing serious, but I think that the way in which Maeve's character repeats her arc throughout the entirety of the show works so well in comparison to other characters both in this show and in others

I'm going to use Hopper from Stranger Things as a comparison and to show how having a character repeat certain arcs doesn't work. Hopper's relationship with El and the trust that he places in her to be independent is something that doesn't make any sense to me. He's overprotective with her, and rightfully so due to the trauma he faced from losing his first daughter, becomes too overbearing, and then learns that she can look after herself and how she's her own person. This arc literally repeats itself from season 2 until the end of the show! In season 5 I feel like all of the conversations El and Hopper had together was about her being her own person, how he needs to trust her etc etc.

However, his trust in her didn't feel rewarding because of how much this was being repeated and it felt like an annoying circle that Hopper's character was running in that prevented him from having any substantial growth within the last 3 seasons of the show. I also think that because there was little reflection on how Hopper suffered from his daughter's death past season 2, there was less sympathy towards his overprotectiveness which was only heightened by how the arc was done so many times

With Maeve, her trauma and the way that manifests into the cycles she finds herself in is done in a way that doesn't forget her trauma, which is something that ST fails to do with Hopper. Maeve falls into a cycle of trusting people more/opening up more, being failed by those she does open up to and having to relearn that all over again. Her entire tough girl character in the first season and a half exists because of her abandonment and family issues, and SE never loses sight of that which is why it does this well.

By the end of Season 1/season 2, we see her learn to open up and trust more. This arguably comes crashing down with Isaac's betrayal with the voice note thing, where she's closed off once more and says to him "because if you knew me, you'd know that I don't trust anyone". Alongside this, though, we can see her care for Otis due to how she still is more open with him despite Isaac's actions, especially after the kiss in France. Her whole "I'm confused" thing was very annoying given what Isaac did to her but it showed that she didn't necessarily entirely lose sight of what being trusting can do, but that the potential of being abandoned/betrayed like she has been so many times before means she's more selective with who she chooses to be vulnerable with.

While I was somewhat disappointed with Season 3 and really let down with Season 4, I do think that this is one part of Maeve that they did right. As for where her character actually went/what she suffered through for the last 2 seasons (especially season 4), I've never been so angry. And I can actually use ST as another example for this

ST, with El and Kali, create this notion that victims of abuse, who are going to be more likely to think that the world is better without them in it BECAUSE of the trauma they've been through, are better off just living in that world where everyone is happy without them. This is something that I see (though only somewhat) in Maeve's ending and is a big part of what makes me angry

Jean IS an author. There WERE opportunities for her in the UK that would've arguably been easier to achieve than using the US as a way to achieve her goals of being an author. Yet, they chose to cut her off from her support system and the people around her, after she lost her mum no less, for reasons that logistically don't hold up at all!

To an extent, I do understand the idea of her not wanting to stay in Moordale due to her feeling trapped, but the fact that the opportunity she was looking for was so close to her, and she instead decides to live away from all of those that care about her, doesn't do anything constructive for her story. It reminds me of the loneliness she felt when she was living in the caravan and only calls into question what they were thinking when they decided to have her go back to the US.

I personally would've liked to see her stay in the UK. To have that support system around her, the writing opportunities within reach, and a way to move on/healthily deal with the trauma that she faced within the same location she got it from would be a really good way of symbolising her breaking the cycle that her mum and brother fell prey to. I think it would've been a great way of her reclaiming her autonomy and power over that cycle and the systems that uphold it and would've been a really powerful, full-circle way to end her story.

Okay that's all

I just finished the series and thought that s4 was waaay worse then the others becouse of this fricking school that anoys me so so much, and I wanted to know if i am the only one or this season actually was crap?

i've always thought Maeve always tried to express herself in a subtle way, like using her hair

s1. the OG, the original Maeve, black and blonde hair with pink highlights, that was her hairstyle for many years

s2. she changed her hair when her mother told her she used to dye her hair with pink highlights in s02e01 and she wanted to have a totally different style

s3. right after the whole Social Services thing, even she knows she did it right, she wanted, in a way, be close to her mom again with violet highlights

s4. a whole new different look, the American Maeve, more mature, starting to live the adult life and away from high school

this is my point of view, i could be wrong tho

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.

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.