‘Sex Education’ Season 3 Ordered By Netflix
The sex therapy clinic at Moordale Secondary School won’t be going anywhere. Sex Education has just been renewed for a third season.
The streamer reported that the Gillian Anderson-led series will return in 2021. The announcement came via a YouTube video starring Alistair Petrie who plays Michael Groff, the headmaster and Adam’s father.
In the video, Petrie walks through a hallway full of paintings of various characters, commenting on the symbols they’re depicted with, before wondering what will become of the two “cherubs” Eric and Adam, before saying that viewers will have to find out in Season 3.
Deadline reported that Netflix shared viewing numbers for Sex Education in mid-January stating that since the series had debuted it had been seen by more than 40 million households.
Among the other high-performing shows that Netflix released figures about were You and Elite. Three shows that were acquired by Netflix, and not wholly original programming.
Sex Education stars Gillian Anderson, Asa Butterfield, Emma Mackey, Ncuti Gatwa, Aimee Lou Wood, and Connor Swindells.
The series centers around a socially awkward teenage boy, Otis (Butterfield) and his sex therapist mother Jean (Anderson). When Otis’s classmates find out about his home life, he teams up with Maeve (Mackey) to set up an underground sex therapy clinic to help his classmates work through their problems.
On Sex Education Season 2, Otis has to deal with his own newly discovered sexual urges in order to take things to the next level with Ola (Patricia Allison). Otis also has to deal with his strained relationship with Maeve while at the same time Moordale Secondary is wrapped up in a chlamydia outbreak.
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Sex Education Seasons 1 and 2 are now available on Netflix.
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Lauren Busser
Lauren Busser is an Associate Editor at Tell-Tale TV. She is a writer of fiction and nonfiction whose work has appeared in Bitch Media, Popshot Quarterly, Brain Mill Press Voices, and The Hartford Courant.