Netflix has released the official trailer for their upcoming dramedy Sex Education, a distinctively honest and witty look at the universally awkward coming-of-age experience that will launch on the streamer on January 11, 2019. The series revolves around a fresh postmodern take on young adult life, friendships, and attitude towards sex, identity, love, and everything in between.
Meet Otis Thompson — a socially awkward high school virgin who lives with his mother, a sex therapist. Surrounded by manuals, videos and tediously open conversations about sex, Otis is a reluctant expert on the subject. When his home life is revealed at school, Otis realizes that he can use his specialist knowledge to gain status. He teams up with Maeve, a whip-smart bad-girl, and together they set up an underground sex therapy clinic to deal with their fellow students’ weird and wonderful problems. Through his analysis of teenage sexuality, Otis realizes he may need some therapy of his own.
Set in the fictional English town of Moordale and shot entirely in Wales, UK, Sex Education is a contemporary British love-letter to the classic American high-school story starring Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game, Miss Peregrine’s Home For Peculiar Children, Hugo) as Otis Milburn, the only child of two sex therapists, and award-winning actress Gillian Anderson (The X-Files, American Gods, Hannibal) as Jean Milburn, his mother, a larger-than-life sex therapist with no filter.
Newcomers Ncuti Gatwa and Emma Mackey star in key roles throughout the series — Gatwa as Otis’ best friend Eric and Mackey as Maeve, the mastermind behind Otis’ underground sex therapy clinic. The series also features Kedar Williams-Stirling, Aimee-Lou Wood, and Connor Swindells as Otis, Maeve and Eric’s Moordale classmates.
Sex Education is created and written by Laurie Nunn and executive produced by Jamie Campbell, and co-executive produced by Sian Robins-Grace. The series is a production of Eleven Film for Netflix and was directed by Ben Taylor (Catastrophe) and Kate Herron.
