Your parents won’t like it. Your teachers will hate it. Your friends will love it. Netflix’s new teen comedy drama Sex Education is drawing a line between different generations and different cultures.
The show is set in a UK high school and follows the lives of Otis, the 16-year-old son of a sex therapist, Maeve, the school’s badass cool girl, and Eric, Otis’s gay best friend. Together they start a secret business giving sex advice to their friends in school.
You’ve probably read about Sex Education in the Thai media. The show has nudity, bad language and stories about teen pregnancy and abortion, all of which are taboo here. But Sex Education tackles these real issues in a way that is open, honest and mature, but also funny and moving.
The characters in the show make both good and bad decisions, but the important thing is that they make decisions themselves, and learn from the consequences. As a result they become more mature and independent. If you think honesty and freedom of thought have no place in Thai culture then the show is not for you. But if you watch it with an open mind, Otis, Maeve and Eric might become your new best friends.
