Ready for a new series to binge? The X-Files’ Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield star in Netflix’s Sex Education.
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 as Otis Milburn, the only child of two sex therapists, and award-winning actress Gillian Anderson as Jean Milburn, his mother, a larger-than-life sex therapist with no filter.
Meet Otis Milburn – an inexperienced, socially awkward high school student 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 realises that he can use his specialist knowledge to gain status. He teams up with Maeve (Emma Mackey), 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 realises he may need some therapy of his own.
“It pretends to be a show about sex, but it’s actually a romantic and funny show about love,” producer Jamie Campbell told Variety. “It’s an antidote to shows that present the teenage experience of sex as superhumanly confident and experimental. Our characters have an endless supply of sexual problems that need to be solved. Otis has the expertise to provide the answers, but has problems of his own, starting with the fact that he’s never had sex himself.”
The series stars Asa Butterfield (Ender’s Game), Gillian Anderson (The X-Files), Emma Mackey, Kedar Williams-Stirling (Wolfblood), Aimee-Lou Wood, and Connor Swindells (VS) as Otis, Maeve and Eric’s Moordale classmates.
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.
Sex Education premieres January 11th on Netflix.
