Netflix has dropped the second season of Laurie Nunn's Sex Education, and with it, viewers have been treated to the return of their favorite sexually awkward teenagers. Following the incredible example set by the first season, the second doesn't disappoint and delivers some hard truths about some important issues.
The core cast's struggle to navigate the world of romantic relationships and adulthood maintains it's brilliant relatability, sometimes to a painful degree. Granted, a lot of the time the relatability comes with a comedic moment, but the show uses this to advantage to left hook its viewers with important messages about topical issues. Whether these relatable moments are comically cringe-inducing or tear-coaxingly emotional, here are a few that have stood out as the most memorable so far.
10 The Hangover
We've all experienced an obnoxious hungover for the first time, likely as a result of a pubescent house party having made a fool of ourselves in front of a bunch of people we have to see at school the next day. This is exactly what happens to Otis in the 7th episode of season 2, awaking from a party in his own house with very little memory of the previous night's events.
When Otis and Eric meet in front of their lockers and fill one another in on the goings-on of the night before, Otis describes exactly how he's feeling "I feel like I'm either having an unusually long panic attack or I'm just very, very thirsty... or both." We've all been there.
9 Awkward Surprise
This might be one more for the guys watching Sex Education, but in the first season's 4th episode Otis and Maeve share a very sweet, if not a little one-sided scene that ends up with them taking a fully-clothed dip in a swimming pool. When Eric finds Otis he's still in the pool, alone, because he has an unwanted "Woodrow Wilson."
It's likely something that's happened to any male human that's made it through puberty, "pitching-a-tent" unexpectedly at the worst possible time, making this a moment that likely got a few empathetic cringes.
8 The Fear Of Loneliness
This one's a little heavier, season 2 of the show found Maeve joining a glass for the school's most gifted students. As a part of their first assignment, they must write an essay on where they see themselves in 10 years. Maeve writes the essay without realizing she'll have to read it in front of the rest of the class.
That moment is relatable enough as it is, but when she hands the essay over to her teacher in private, the subject material likely hit home a lot harder for a great many viewers. The essay details that in the future she wants to live in a sizeable house, but not too big that she feels "the depth of (her) aloneness."
7 Crying In Secret
The second season of Sex Education has given a lot more focus on the complex and flawed relationships between the adult characters, none more than Otis' mother Jean and her struggles with commitment that ultimately lead to her split with Jakob.
Throughout the season their relationship goes up and down more than a rollercoaster with springs for wheels, culminating in Jakob ending things for good because it would just be best for everyone. Here we see Jean's most vulnerable side, as she smiles in agreement, leaves the room and cries in silence. We're all guilty of bottling emotions to breaking point.
6 Unrequited Love
Towards the end of the first season, Otis finds himself having to talk a fellow student down from a ledge after they announce they love someone that doesn't reciprocate. The speech he gives is moving and incredibly telling about his feelings towards Maeve, and might bring up some emotions for some viewers.
Without copy-pasting the whole speech here the sentiment behind it is that love is just "dumb luck" and not everyone is going to feel the same way about you than you do about them, and that sucks but its how it is. It's a moving moment and we're betting it probably sounds familiar to a lot of viewers.
5 The Bus
Season 2's most applauded storyline has been Amiee's struggles with a stranger on the bus. When she's sexually assaulted on the way to school she begins to internalize the trauma she's feeling, not ready to admit that the situation is more than just a creepy guy on the bus.
The storyline has struck a chord with so many because of its relatability and the light it's shining on everyday sexual assault. With series creator revealed that the storyline came out of a personal place, saying she wanted to write about it in a "cathartic sense" pointing to its importance "because I don't know a woman who hasn't had something - maybe not as bad as that, but something like that - happen in their life."
4 Finding Out Someone Has A Crush On You
Getting back to the lighter relatable moments now, during the second season Eric has found himself in the middle of a love triangle, having to choose between gorgeous foreign student Rahim and someone he always has a good time with, Adam.
When he finds out about the former his reaction is pure gold. After a season of watching these characters at there best and worst, it feels like sharing the moment with a friend, we're just happy that Eric's happy.
3 Mrs. Groff's Advice
The final episodes of season 2 come with a lot of revelations about just how imperfect many of the adult characters in the show, that many of the younger characters struggle to see as anything other than an authority, are. Among them is Adam's mother revealing to him his father's biggest flaw.
She muses about the pain of love, how loving someone means being scared that you're going to lose them and that Mr. Groff is so scared he stops himself feeling that emotion altogether. She tells Adam he has to tell the people he loves that he does, even if it hurts. He asks why, lamenting how awful that sounds, as she hits the audience with a relatable truth bomb, "Because you're human."
2 Maeve Wiley, Rumors Hurt
We've all heard something said about us that we know not to be true, and throughout the first season of the show, this is one of Maeve's main sources of grief, a vicious rumor labeling her as a "cock biter." It comes to a head episode 5 when she and Otis argue about how whether or not their friendship is one-sided, and if they should protect Ruby given the events of the episode.
Maeve shows Otis that no one deserves to be shamed or lied about no matter who they are, that no one should live in fear of their reputation not even someone she dislikes. It's moving and relatable especially given that we've all had one stupid rumor follow us far longer than it should have.
1 You Don't Have To Be Perfect
Likely one of the most touching scenes from either of Sex Education's seasons comes towards the end of the first season when Otis and his mother finally reconcile over her writing a book about his inability to... do certain things.
She tracks him down at school and in a heartfelt aside she apologizes for being a hypocrite and tells him he's anything but dysfunctional, but Otis disagrees, insisting that he's "not normal." What Jean says next is something we all need to hear from time to time, "You're not supposed to know the answers to anything. You're going to be just fine."
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