September is the time for waving off teenagers to start new chapters in their wondrously energetic lives. The powers that be have decided to offer us no respite from this mournful process and dropped the departure of Otis, Eric, Maeve, Aimee, Adam and the rest of the Moordale gang into the emotional mix with the fourth and final series of Sex Education. Not that they are the Moordale gang any more. The old school site has been sold to developers and we join them as Maeve (Emma Mackey) begins her writing course at Wallace University in the US, Adam (Connor Swindells) starts a new job at a local stables, and Otis (Asa Butterfield), Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and Aimee (Aimee Lou Wood) shift their A-levels and angst to Cavendish College. This is an impeccably woke, student-led safe space, which is nice for students, but less rewarding for viewers because it transforms the series into what feels like a vast box-ticking enterprise. What used to mark Sex Education out from the crowd was the authenticity at its …

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