The Problem With Sex Education Season 3
Don’t get me wrong, I loved the new seasons and pretty much enjoyed all the new characters and the story arcs of the old ones, but some things rubbed me off the wrong way and I feel there was a lot of potential to be better with the characters and their stories.
Otis and Ruby’s relationship was told beautifully, but I was shocked by how badly they ended it. It was obvious they didn’t belong with each other, and their breakup was inevitable. But the fact that we don’t see what Ruby goes through because of the split was disappointing for me. Ruby was in love with Otis, and after they split, we don’t see much of her anymore.
The first four episodes of season 3 are filled with unfinished side character arcs and introducing new ones. There is Hope, the new headmaster, Layla, and Cal. Cal and Layla are introduced pretty well, but Hope’s personality doesn’t work out in the series. Apart from some scenes in the hospital, we don’t get to know Hope properly as we did Michael Groff, the previous headmaster.
I loved how they changed sex therapy to relationship therapy because every teenager realizes that sex is not everything after some time. Now that most teenagers like Adam or Otis finally understand their sexual sides, they fix the more complex problems.
But Jakob and Jean, along with Maeve and Otis, have the best relationship exploration that Sex Education has seen so far. It goes deep and explores and explains. And their love story is unique, which makes them more authentic than other characters and couples.
In the end, Maeve decides to go to America just when she was about to start a new relationship with Otis. That departure doesn’t tear you apart because we didn’t see them spend much time with each other. If they didn’t give so much time to side characters and side stories in the first five episodes, we would have had enough time to see Otis and Maeve together longer, before their separation.
In all these love stories, let’s not forget that Sex Education’s comedy was always good and still is. The only thing that made me endure the lousy scenes was the genuine comedy of the series. It’s fresh, funny, and intelligent.
