School is back in session, asSex Education’s second season has hitNetflix.
The U.K.-set dramedy returns with all the things you loved about the first seasonstellar performances from its ensemble cast!
Immensely humiliating, raw, and over-the-top sex crises!
Let’s dive into all the wonderfully weird and wild action that unfolds onSex Education’s newest installment.
As he climaxes, his mother returns and, well, things get messy.
Amid dealing with that, Otis begins worrying about his girlfriend Ola finding out about his problem.
When he eventually tells her, though, she is unphased and says they’ll deal with it together.
Otis is quite displeased that Jean’s involved with Jakob.
Suddenly she finds herself having a reunion with her estranged drug-addict mother (and her half-sister).
Maeve is unforgiving, and she and her mother part on bad terms.
But before Maeve leaves, she starts reading the essays over the school speaker system.
The chairwoman, Groff, and Maeve’s English teacher Ms. Sands convene on Maeve.
Maeve also receives a gift from her mother later: an envelope full of cash.
The clinic
At the start of the episode, Otis decides not to do the clinic without Maeve.
Everyone wants Otis’s help.
He instructs Fiona’s two accusatory friends to make a list of their sex partners.
Things between Fiona and her friends escalate into a physical fight.
Just then, Otis gets punched out by one of the girls while trying to break up the fight.
Otis and Maeve then agree to resume the clinic together.
Lily relays this to Otis.
So, after school, he rushes over to Ola’s house and apologizes for not listening to her.
She welcomes him into the house.
However, the Maeve jealousy issue presents itself again throughout the episode.
When will it boil over?
The Clinicmother and son’s
The episode opens with Ms. Sands and Mr. Hendrix having sex.
Sands wants Hendrix to talk dirty but he fails epically.
At the fair, Hendrix seeks Otis’s help.
Otis suggests he write a script.
Hendrix heeds the advice, but things still go awry.
However, after Otis’s talk with his classmate about fingering, he shares the same advice with Hendrix.
So, Hendrix goes to Sands' house and asks why she likes dirty talk.
She says she wants to feel sexy since she doesn’t get to feel sexy at work.
He figures out what to do and the two have “dirty” makeup sex.
When Hendrix is overwhelmed by students' questionsi.e.
Now back at school, Maeve is in an accelerated class.
But when Ms. Sands asks everyone to read their essays on their 10-year dreams, Maeve refuses.
Sands insists Maeve should and can have bigger dreams.
The next day, Maeve is selected for the quiz team.
Otis passes by as she hears the news and he congratulates her but rushes off to find Ola.
Maeve finally admits to herself that she still likes Otis.
His secret seems to survive this episode, but he finds another reason to fight with his mother.
The Clinic
The episode opens with a student, Olivia, having sex with her boyfriend.
Malik goes to Jean instead.
She suggests it may be part of a fetishbreath play, encasement fantasy, or paranormal fantasy.
Malik is freaked out and snaps at Olivia for “wanting to f— a ghost.”
Otis says it’s normal to feel insecure but sex is about feeling good, not looking pretty.
She should create that trust with her boyfriend to share their vulnerabilities.
Malik goes along with it and the two make up.
Maeve, however, is appalled and insists they go to the police.
Eric overthinks his outfit and the place.
He picks a fancy restaurant but when Rahim arrives, he realizes Eric is out of place.
Rahim asks Eric to take him somewhere that makes him happy.
So, they go to an arcade and play a Dance Dance Revolution-bang out game.
Eric shines and Rahim loves it.
He kisses Eric, sending him into shock and ecstatic joy.
Eric is flustered seeing Adam and tells Rahim he has to go.
Adam looks on broodingly as they kiss goodbye on the cheek.
Bravery was definitely a theme of this episode.
Otis advises her to not care what people think.
She leaves the session unsatisfied and winds up consulting with Jean.
She tells Jean she doesn’t have an interest in sex but she does want romance.
Jean says sex doesn’t make people whole, and the girl leaves in a much better state.Representation!
Jean gets an unexpected additional client too…Groff’s wife Maureen.
Maureen hesitantly tells Jean that her husband hasn’t touched her in six years.
Maureen attempts to seduce her husband that night with a sexy look but he dismisses her.
She retreats, silently crying.This guy is the worst, can he be canceled, like?
That morning at school, though, Rahim asks Eric to be his boyfriend.
During this scene, a song about choosing a devil or an angel comes on.Well done music department.
Otis takes extra care getting ready that morning.
Still, he decides “really like” is enough and he’s going to do it.
Maeve agrees, then asks Otis to watch her sister while she competes.
Otis agrees, but during his session, the girl disappears.
Otis finds Maeve after the competition and the two search frantically.
Maeve berates Otis because she’s tired of people letting her down.
After they find Maeve’s sister safe, Otis asks how the competition went.
Maeve crushed it but the team voted her out because she didn’t collaborate with them on answers.
When Maeve relays this to Otis, she says she messes everything up.
He storms off to meet Ola.
Ola reads the text"I’m sorry, I feel like an idiot"and kicks Otis out.
The next day she gives him an ultimatum: stop hanging out with Maeve, or they break up.
Episode 5
Otis & his parents
All the Milburns have a lot of relationship drama.
In the aftermath of kissing Remi, Jakob’s annoying flaws become heightened to Jean.
She explodes at him and confesses the kiss.
Jakob leaves, not saying much.
Meanwhile, Remi takes Otis and Eric on a camping trip.
They get lost, it downpours before they set up the tents, and Remi gives up angrily.
They go to a hotel instead.
While at the hotel, Remi yells in his room.
Otis checks on him and Remi tells Otis his wife Delilah is leaving him for someone else.
He says he wants to be a good father.
Jean asks, “to which children?”
Eric and Otis make up of course, though.
Then Eric agrees to be Rahim’s boyfriend and later ignores Adam when he comes around that night.
Ola & Otis
The episode opens with Ola having a sex dream in which Otis morphs into Lily.
Wondering what it means, she takes a quiz about sexuality and her result is pansexual.
She’s not surprised… and has another dream about kissing Lily later.
Meanwhile, Otis struggles with deciding between Ola and Maeve.
But not wanting to be a cheat like his father, he finally chooses.
On the way home, he texts Maeve to tell her they can’t hang out anymore.
Then at his house, he tells Ola he loves her.
She says he doesn’t really, and she doesn’t love him.
She breaks up with him.
Though he’s probably sadderabout the text to Maeve.
Then Ola runs to Lily’s.
When Lily opens the door, she kisses her.
Lily kisses her back but then shuts the door in Ola’s face.
Maeve’s mother Erin asks her to attend a family and friends Narcotics Anonymous meeting.
She winds up joining them for a dance class.
Isaac makes her dance with an elderly man and she reluctantly enjoys it.
She learns more about Isaac and his brother.
They were orphaned and passed around the foster system.
He tries to get Maeve to talk about Erin but it sets her off and she cusses him out.
Back at her trailer, she finds her mother crying.
The next morning, Maeve finds a present from Isaac.
Just then, she gets Otis’s text and is infuriated.
He asks Otis for help.
Anwar realizes he’s right and later confesses to his boyfriend about his inexperience and concerns.
His boyfriend warmly offers to teach him.#Couplegoals?
But thanks to Eric, it ends up being a wild party with the whole school.
Maeve and her mother share an achingly rare, normal mother-daughter moment over Maeve getting ready for the party.
Maeve grants Isaac’s request to join her at the party.
When they arrive, they ask Jackson to help get Isaac down Otis’s long stairway to the house.
Isaac picks up on and addresses the heartbreak-based tension between Jackson and Maeve.
Meanwhile, at the party, Eric urges a frantic Otis to relax and let loose.
So, he begins drinking…and doesn’t stop.
Tipsy Otis tells Ola to come to get her stuff so he can rub the party in her face.
When Otis runs into Jackson at the party, he learns Maeve dumped Jackson for Otis.
This prompts Otis to approach Maeve and Isaac and dance (awkwardly).
Then, Ola confronts them.
Both girls leave deeply hurt, and Otis continues partying.
He pukes, dances, and ends up sleeping with Ruby the “Untouchable.”
Isaac says Otis isn’t right for Maeve because he couldn’t ever understand her troubled past.
Jean
At the beginning of the episode, Jean finds herself missing Jakob.
At school, Ola seeks Jean’s advice about Lily.
Otis sees Ola and Jean together and becomes desperate to know what they discussed.
He steals Jean’s therapy notes.
As he puts it in his locker, Headmaster Groff walks by and nefariously notices the book.
Jean meets up with Maureen Groff that night for fun.
When Maureen returns home, Michael is there and begs her to take him back.
She rejects him, and he blames Jean.
Infuriated, he steals Jean’s notebook and makes copies of all the pages.
Jackson
Jackson gets his cast removed, and immediately his mother Sofia resumes pressuring him about swimming.
Then at the party, everyone bombards him about swimming and becoming the golden boy again.
It overwhelms him and he escapes to a quiet room.
He’s considering injuring his hand again when Viv finds him.
Jackson tells Viv he hurt himself before on purpose.
She hugs him and at first, he accepts her comfort.
When Jackson returns home that night, Viv is there.
She told Jackson’s mothers about his injury.
Groff calls Jean into a meeting with Malek and Olivia with their parents.
The parents are furious Malek “received sex advice” from Jean.
Groff “fires” Jean.
Jean asks how her notes got shared, and he pretends not to know.
Jean seeks Jakob’s advice and comfort over Otis.
When Jean confronts Otis about the sex clinic, he denies it.
She says he looks like his father when he lies.
Olivia, Aimee, Viv, Maeve, Ola, and Lily become suspects and are sent to detention.
Sands orders them to create a presentation on what binds them together as womena laBreakfast Club.
Ola and Maeve bicker while they work on the assignment.
Aimee yells at them to stop fighting and she starts crying.
She tells everyone she can’t get on the bus because of what happened.
She no longer feels safe anywhere.
Sands and Hendrix stumble upon the real message culprit repeating his crime, and the girls are set free.
Maeve and Ola apologize to one another about Otis' stuff.
Otis
Otis wakes up in bed with Ruby.
They had sex, but aren’t sure if they used a condom.
They decide to get the morning-after pill.
When the doctor asks Ruby about her family medical history, she says her father has MS. Otis asks if she was sad last night because of her dad.
Otis also asks if he was good at sex.
Rahim attends church with Eric and his family.
But Rahim is an atheist and is surprised Eric actually believes in religion.
Still, Rahim says their differences make him love Eric.
Eric says he loves him back but later in his room, he thinks about Adam.
Jackson’s mothers pick him up from school to take him to a counselor.
But things go awry when they get a flat tire.
Jackson says his favorite part about swimming was spending time with Sofia, his hero.
He then says she needs to let him figure out his other interests.
She understands and they embrace.
Then he tells her about the play.
It’s bizarrethere are characters with penis hands and vagina heads and, need I go on?
Let’s dive into what happens to everyone.
Jean and Otis
Things are still cold between Otis and Jean.
Otis doesn’t think the clinic was wrong, or that not telling her was wrong.
Then he essentially implies it’s Jean’s fault Remi left.
When Otis runs into Ola at school, he wonders aloud to her why he keeps upsetting people.
Ola thinks he’s so worried about being a good guy, he ends up doing bad.
She adds that Otis is too afraid he’ll end up like his father.
Otis realizes she’s right and rushes to see Remi, who’s nearby for his book tour.
Otis asks Remi why he left.
Remi says simply, “I’m an a–hole.”
Otis asks him how he can be better.
Remi says it’s about honesty and holding tight forever the people who love you despite your faults.
So, Otis goes on an apology tour.
He leaves a heartfelt message for Maeve (more on this later).
He apologizes to Jakob, and Jakob tells him he’s a good man.
Then Groff interrupts the play.
He calls it inappropriate and blames Jean for corrupting the students with her sex advice.
Otis stands up for Jean and confesses he’s the one that’s been giving out advice.
After the play, Jean and Otis further their reconciliation.
She asks Maeve to babysit.
Then at least two more things unfold that hint Erin is a hot mess.
On her way out, Maeve asks Isaac to search her trailer for her hidden drugs.
Sure enough, Joe finds paraphernalia.
Isaac relays the intel before the quiz competition begins.
Maeve reports her mother to social services, for her sister’s sake.
But during the competition, Erin shows up, catching Maeve off guard.
Erin takes Maeve out to celebrate but then when they get home, social services is there.
Erin is distraught to learn Maeve made the call.
She admits to having slipped up with the drugs but says it’s no big deal.
Erin and her daughter are taken away for investigation.
She cries and then goes to Isaac’s.
He assures her she did the right thing and invites her in.
She accepts but then leaves to get things at the store.
At that moment, Otis arrives.
Isaac pretends he hasn’t seen Maeve.
Otis asks him to tell Maeve to listen to her voicemail.
Isaac & Maeve need to happen ASAP!
Eric & Adam
Eric invites Rahim to the play (Eric is performing with the swing band).
Adam brings food to his father at school.
He asks if he can return to school.
On his way out, Adam sees Eric.
Adam later fights for his job back so he doesn’t have to tell his dad he was fired.
Ola tries to help but they both end up getting fired.
Adam asks why she helped him and she says they’re friends.
He hugs her, overjoyed someone has finally called him a friend.
At this, Adam takes off running to the school.
Eric looks guiltily at Rahim but accepts.
After the show, Eric introduces Adam to his family.
Eric apologizes to Rahim outside.
Rahim warns Eric that Adam might not be good for him.
