One Line Review: The trilogy ends marvelously. Though the climax could’ve been more clarified.
Youtube Trailer Sex Education Season 3
Starring: Asa Butterfield, Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa
Director: Laurie Nunn
Release Date: 17 September 2021
Introduction
A new course arrives and Otis has sex from time to time, Eric and Adam are an official couple, and Jean is pregnant. Meanwhile, Hope, the new director, tries to get Moordale back to being a role model, Aimee discovers feminism, Jackson falls in love, and a lost voicemail still hangs in the air.
There are only a few days left for one of the best youth proposals of the moment to return to Netflix. With two outstanding seasons so far, the British fiction created by Laurie Nunnhe has set his bar so high that it is very difficult to maintain the level. On this occasion, at first glance, his greatest asset seems to be Hope’s arrival in Moordale. This character, played by a mysterious and blunt Jemima Kirkle (Sylvie’s Love), works as a kind of gentle version of Dolores Umbridge. In this way, before the astonished gaze of our protagonists, the new director little by little turns the institute into a strict institution of “slightly” radical, old-fashioned, and indifferent to the identity of the student body. That is, he crushes with his hands everything that the series defends and preaches.
What’s it all about?
The summer is over and, after an intense and groundbreaking introduction, we see how the students return to the institute very changed after the last year. From here, the series does nothing more than re-introducing us to endless hilarious, uncomfortable, and emotional situations that are overcome episode after episode. On the negative side, the fiction stretches the evolution of the relationship between Otis (Asa Butterfield) and Maeve (Emma Mackey) until it exasperates and makes us want to look the other way, at least for a while. It is not pleasant that for this reason some characters that were beginning to have a very positive development disappear from the map because throughout this season We have other, much more interesting relationships to explore inside and outside of Moordale.
Cast and supporting actor making top notch series
There are other supporting characters who do enjoy better treatment during the season. Eric (Ncuti Gatwa), Adam (Connor Swindells), Aimee (Aimee Lou Wood), and Lily (Tanya Reynolds) star in some very special subplots. Also, the series expands its world and broadens inclusion with the introduction of some non-binary people like Cal (Dua Saleh), who Jackson (Kedar Williams-Stirling) connects with very soon. Secondly, adults are not left behind and also gain importance. The surprise in this aspect is given by Mr. Groff (Alistair Petrie), a character that we already believed to be extinct and who, nevertheless, stars in some of the best moments, thus establishing himself as one of the unexpected stars in this new batch of episodes. Who was going to say it?
Standards meet execution
The characters of ‘Sex Education’ stay fresher than ever in this third season, the script can be reproached for the excessive abuse of that ‘now yes but no’ that has gone from being very addictive to frustrating more than necessary on occasions. In favor of emotional complexity and self-esteem, at the same time, the series has lost a bit of that funny focus on sex and its derived problems that it proudly sported in its first two installments, something that could be seen as an evolution or a recoil depending on the viewer. But all this is linked to that very ambiguous concept that is maturity, and how could it be otherwise, fiction has also matured in its own way throughout this 24-episode journey. It would be unfair not to value the fact of being able to enjoy these changes as something very positive because they undoubtedly enrich the proposal and unconsciously make us better people.
Farewell to the trio/conclusion
Nor are we going to fool ourselves since, although until now everything was wrapped in a hilarious facade of adolescent sexual exploration, sex and love have never been the most important elements of this fiction. Here, the fundamental thing resides in the fact of being able to discover, know and accept oneself for many mistakes that we make along the way and the pain that this may entail. Also learning to wrap the superficiality in a used handkerchief and throw it away, thus managing to build transcendental relationships of all kinds despite the fact that at times they may seem utopian. This is something the series continues to excel at above most., and in the new season, he does it with much more courage and total ease. Of course, it marvels as much as it hurts, because when the day comes when we have to say goodbye to Moordale and its inhabitants, the world will once again be a little less beautiful no matter where you look at it.
