The focus is wider (Jean and Jakob’s is one of the many adult relationships given more attention, and there are more students introduced too) and perhaps as a result the strokes are broader. The various sexual escapades, which were once just the gateway to exploring character and mining deeper truths, increasingly seem like an end in themselves.īonding … Kedar Williams-Stirling as Jackson Marchetti and Dua Saleh as Cal. Every episode used to speed by but now each one feels very much its full hour long. There are several points at which the pedagogy the programme has avoided for so long creeps in – Amy’s vulvar education and passing on of her new wisdom being the most obvious. Every momentary miscommunication is almost immediately identified, interrogated and resolved, which is nice for them but unrewarding for the viewer. The script is less fleet, less funny and the therapy-speak that was once Otis’s province (for credible reasons, being the son of a sex therapist) seems to have infected the whole student body. The two actors, in a uniformly brilliant cast, are phenomenal.Įlsewhere, though, the tone is increasingly off, the magic diminished. Eric (Ncuti Gatwa) and Adam’s (Connor Swindells) relationship is the spine of the eight-episode run, and this part of the programme doesn’t put a foot wrong across all the emotional terrain it covers. But the formula is so precise that its blending amounts almost to alchemy, and this series doesn’t work quite as well as the previous two.
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