Gillian Anderson stars in Sex Education, an upcoming drama that’ll be streaming on Netflix UK from 11th January. The series will follow Anderson’s character, a sex therapist, and her teenage son, played by Ender’s Game star Asa Butterfield.
Butterfield plays Otis Thompson, a socially awkward high school virgin who, while inexperienced himself, knows a great deal about sex education because of his sex therapist mother. Otis teams up with “whip-smart bad girl” Maeve to set up an underground sex education clinic for their classmates, to answer all of their weird and wonderful questions.
Here’s the first trailer…
“It pretends to be a show about sex, but it’s actually a romantic and funny show about love,” producer Jamie Campbell told Variety. “It’s an antidote to shows that present the teenage experience of sex as superhumanly confident and experimental. Our characters have an endless supply of sexual problems that need to be solved. Otis has the expertise to provide the answers, but has problems of his own, starting with the fact that he’s never had sex himself.”
The dramedy has been created by emerging writer Laurie Nunn and is directed by Catastrophe‘s Ben Taylor. Ncuti Gatwa (Stonemouth), Connor Swindells (Harlots), and Kedar Williams-Stirling (Will) also star.
