Season 1

The first season of Sex Education consists of eight episodes. All episodes were released on Netflix on 11 January 2019. In February 2019, Netflix renewed Sex Education for a second season that was released on 17 January 2020.

Set in the fictional town of Moordale in early 2020s, the story follows a group of teenagers attending Moordale Secondary; Otis, an awkward and a bit nerdy boy, whose mother is Jean, a sex therapist, who wants to ingerate in his life as much as possible. Otis's best friend, Eric, gay from very religious African family, who's bullied by headmaster's son, Adam. Aimee, Adam's girlfriend as well as a member of school's the Untouchables clique alongside Ruby, Olivia and Anwar, who's secretly friends with Maeve, a loner feminist who sets up the sex clinic at school with Otis. All while school's swimming team star, Jackson, is trying his best to get to Maeve's heart. There's also Lily, a girl obsessed with writing stories about aliens with penis hands, and Ola, who wants to move to Moordale Secondary and becomes Otis's love interest.

Synopsis

Insecure Otis has all the answers when it comes to sex advice, thanks to his therapist mother. So rebel Maeve proposes a school sex-therapy clinic.

Cast and characters

Main cast

• Asa Butterfield as Otis Milburn - 8/8
• Gillian Anderson as Jean Milburn - 8/8
• Ncuti Gatwa as Eric Effiong - 8/8
• Emma Mackey as Maeve Wiley - 8/8
• Connor Swindells as Adam Groff - 7/8
• Kedar Williams-Stirling as Jackson Marchetti - 8/8
• Alistair Petrie as Michael Groff - 8/8
• Mimi Keene as Ruby Matthews - 6/8
• Aimee Lou Wood as Aimee Gibbs - 8/8
• Chaneil Kular as Anwar Bakshi - 6/8
• Simone Ashley as Olivia Hanan - 5/8
• Tanya Reynolds as Lily Iglehart - 6/8
• Mikael Persbrandt as Jakob Nyman - 4/8
• Patricia Allison as Ola Nyman - 5/8

Recurring cast

• Samantha Spiro as Maureen Groff - 4/8
• Jim Howick as Colin Hendricks - 7/8
• Rakhee Thakrar as Emily Sands - 5/8
• Chris Jenks as Steve Morley - 3/8
• DeObia Oparei as Abeo Effiong - 6/8
• Edward Bluemel as Sean Wiley - 3/8
• James Purefoy as Remi Milburn - 2/8
• Doreene Blackstock as Beatrice Effiong - 2/8
• Lisa Palfrey as Cynthia Jenkins - 4/8
• Joe Wilkinson as Jeffrey Jenkins - 3/8
• Hannah Waddingham as Sofia Marchetti - 4/8
• Sharon Duncan-Brewster as Roz Marchetti - 3/8
• Lily Newmark as Ruthie - 2/8
• Alice Hewkin as Tanya - 2/8
• Conor Clarke McGrath as Connor Pearson - 5/8
• Max Boast as Tom Baker - 2/8
• Jojo Macari as Kyle - 3/8
• Conor Donovan as Quentin - 3/8

Minor cast

• Daniel Ings as Dan - 1/8
• Olive Gray as Kate - 1/8
• Tom Mackley as Liam - 1/8
• India Ria Amarteifio as Lizzie - 1/8
• Kadeem Ramsay as OctoBoy - 1/8
• Femi Elufowoju Jr. as Prophet Joshua - 1/8
• Jonny Amies as Sam - 1/8
• Lu Corfield as Sarah - 1/8

Episodes

Image	Episode Information
	"Episode 1" Airdate: 11 January 2019 Episode / Series Number: 01 / 01 Directed by: Ben Taylor Written by: Laurie Nunn
	"Episode 2" Airdate: 11 January 2019 Episode / Series Number: 02 / 02 Directed by: Ben Taylor Written by: Laurie Nunn
	"Episode 3" Airdate: 11 January 2019 Episode / Series Number: 03 / 03 Directed by: Ben Taylor Written by: Sophie Goodhart
	"Episode 4" Airdate: 11 January 2019 Episode / Series Number: 04 / 04 Directed by: Ben Taylor Written by: Laura Neal & Laurie Nunn
	"Episode 5" Airdate: 11 January 2019 Episode / Series Number: 05 / 05 Directed by: Kate Herron Written by: Sophie Goodhart & Laura Hunter
	"Episode 6" Airdate: 11 January 2019 Episode / Series Number: 06 / 06 Directed by: Kate Herron Written by: Laurie Nunn & Freddy Syborn
	"Episode 7" Airdate: 11 January 2019 Episode / Series Number: 07 / 07 Directed by: Kate Herron Written by: Sophie Goodhart
	"Episode 8" Airdate: 11 January 2019 Episode / Series Number: 08 / 08 Directed by: Kate Herron Written by: Laurie Nunn

Trivia

• This is the only season to not have Chinenye Ezeudu be part of the cast, since her character, Viv, didn't make her first appearance until next season.
• Season 1 is the only season to feature Eric's father, Abeo, on the screen.
• Lily, Jakob and Ola are the only main cast characters that didn't appear in the first episode.

Gallery

Images

• Promotional Images
• Character Portraits
• Behind the Scenes

Videos

Sex Education Season 1 Trailer - Rotten Tomatoes TV

Sex Education Season 1 Recap - Netflix

Otis & Maeve- The Story So Far PART ONE - Sex Education

The Best of Maeve Wiley In Sex Education Season One

References

See also