Netflix is streaming a multi-season programme called Sex Education.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The programme revolves around a magnificently socially awkward high school student and, erm, sex.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Not so much his, as that of almost everyone else around him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I have enjoyed S1, and despite a couple of flat-spots, I enjoyed S2 too.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It’s a bit of an odd show. It ‘feels’ not British (though it unquestionably is); there’s just something about the High School that is a touch… transatlantic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I enjoy the characters (Maeve is a delightfully rebellious personality), and I love the stunning locations (largely shot in the Wye valley, and it’s good to revisit, through the lens, places I frequented when I was much younger).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I also enjoy the way the show broaches sex, sexuality, and sexual behaviour. It tackles all of these things in a matter-of-fact, non-preachy way.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But the single thing I enjoy most about it (apart from the locations – so good to see Tintern and Llandogo looking so pretty!) is the way pupil relationships at school are portrayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
And when I say ‘relationships’, I mean that in the broadest sense of the word.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Even if someone isn’t in your crowd\/gang\/clique, that someone is known. And is spoken to (even if slightly disparagingly).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
S\/he is an actual person.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I like this because when I was at secondary school (we didn’t call it High School back then) that isn’t what happened.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We might have known the names of fellow pupils from registration, but we didn’t know them well enough to speak to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Or maybe it wasn’t even ‘well enough’, we just didn’t want to speak to them because they were unknown?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Whatever the rationale was, we just didn’t have the same kind of ‘soft’ relationship that the pupils in Sex Education do.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
I really hope the programme is accurate in this one aspect more than all of the others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It would be good to know that today’s teens are being more adult towards each other than we managed to achieve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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