The Sly Subversion of<em> Sex Education</em>
With its second season, the joyfully eccentric, inventively raunchy Netflix series cements itself as a different sort of teen comedy.
Late in the second season of Netflix’s comes a scene familiar from multiple teen movies: the ritualistic dissemination of a person’s private notebook, weaponized to cause maximum chaos. You might remember this exact scenario from , when Regina George papered her high school with xeroxed pages of the same Burn Book she’d helped create, sparking a fracas of hysteria and recrimination. Or from the end of , when a journal is handed out in bound copies at Kathryn Merteuil’s brother’s funeral, sealing her downfall. The setup is enough of a trope to is subverting it. The person doling out secrets in hope of causing chaos isn’t a teenage girl looking for revenge, but a middle-aged man grasping at the last vestiges of his waning power.
