One of the appeals of Sex Education is how it merges the current world with the aesthetics of the 1980s, giving it a timeless and John Hughes’s movies vibe. Season 4, however, is set in a modern school, in a sort of utopia where everyone acts correctly all the time and if someone is cancelled all they have to do is apologise, so the 80s aesthetic feels off.
While it expands its LGBTQIA+ characters, they come off as unauthentic and boring, sometimes only to separate the existing characters or to plotlines similar to previous seasons. Even their outrage over society problems comes off as fake.
The only good storyline worth watching was the development of Adam and Michael relationship.
It’s a sad closure to an otherwise great series.
