I’ve just finished watching Sex Education

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I was a little on the fence about watching it at first, but it actually turned out to be a surprisingly fun and touching show. Tbh I was mostly interested in checking it out because of Gillian Anderson, but then I ended up getting more invested in the teen characters instead. The promotion was a bit misleading actually as I got the impression that

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I felt a little bit of whiplash tbh because it seemed like Maeve/Jackson were being set up as the couple to root for in the beginning, and then suddenly in the second half of the season she was mooning after Otis and we were being told that she wasn’t feeling it with Jackson at all, even though that’s certainly not the impression I was getting in the beginning. Early on it seemed more like she just didn’t feel good enough for Jackson and was closing herself off for that reason, not that she just wasn’t that into him at all?

I hate the cliche of the nerdy guy always ending up with the hot girl of his dreams in the end anyway, and I really thought that they were just going to be set up as friends in the beginning. Okay Otis understandably ended up developing a bit of a crush, but Maeve’s own crush came out of the blue to me. And the writers have said in interviews that they want the audience to be torn between rooting for Otis with Ola or with Maeve, but it’s pretty obvious who they really intend to be endgame when you have Otis’s first kiss with Ola framed with Maeve looking on tearfully

And I know what you mean about Eric and Adam, I kept getting the feeling that it was being set up that Adam had repressed feelings for Eric, but I definitely feel like they need to develop that some more. I could buy feelings exploding during detention, but then it felt like quite a leap when he then wanted to brush arms with Eric in class. I agree that that moment was very cute, but I think I actually buy then more as two people having hate sex, a relationship isn’t really there for me yet when I felt like there was next to no setup for Adam being comfortable enough to actually want to do something coupley with Eric. I’m guessing that it was a bit rushed because the writers wanted to set up Adam having feelings for Eric, and it going beyond just sex, but they also wanted to save both reveals for the finale, whereas I think I would have preferred if they had spend a little more time building up to it. Maybe them first getting together in episode 7, and then in episode 8 Adam loosening up a little with his gesture in class, showing that he does have real feelings for Eric as well