Racism isn’t present class conflict is resolvable via frank conversation and scholarships. Parents apologize for their abuse and neglect. At Moordale Secondary, teenagers have conflict with one another and then repair it. But it is the culture of the school around which the action takes place that is truly unrecognizable to my inner school-aged self. The backdrop is rural England (or maybe Wales?), and the decade is psychedelically ambiguous (we’re served fashion elements of the 1970s alongside tech from the 2000s). Sex Education, Laurie Nunn’s smash-hit Netflix show, unfolds in a timeless, placeless utopia. Sophie Lewis ▪ Winter 2022Īimee Lou Wood and Emma Mackey in Season 3 of Sex Education (Sam Taylor/Netflix © 2020) The core spirit of Sex Education, easily missed on account of its boisterous sex-positivity, is the sophisticated sexual prudence of Generation Z.