Sex Education Trivia | 30 facts about the Netflix original series

Sex Education is considered one of the most successful Netflix original series, that has gained popularity especially among youth.

Let’s find out more about Sex Education!

1. Sex Education is a British comedy-drama television series.
2. It was created by Laurie Nunn.
3. The plot is about a teenage boy with a sex therapist mother, that teams up with a high school classmate to set up an underground sex therapy clinic at school.
4. The lead actors are the following ones: Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa
5. The show’s British writer, Laurie Nunn, said she intended Sex Education to be an homage to the John Hughes high school films of the 1980s, such as Breakfast Club (1985).
6. Across all episodes the vehicles and TV sets used in the production are all late 20th century (1970-1990) models rather than contemporary 21st century ones.
7. This has been done deliberately as it adds to the slightly unreal context of the show.
8. Filming for the series took place along the River Wye in England and Wales, including locations in Llandogo and Tintern, Monmouthshire.
9. The scenes set at Moordale Secondary School were filmed at the former Campus of the University of South Wales at Caerleon.
10. It once house around 4,500 students.
11. The building closed in 2016 and stood vacant until Sex Education started using it for filming
12. Ezra Furman’s music is listened throughout out the whole first season.
13. In fact, Ezra Furman actually appears on episode 7 as the singer in the School dance.
14. Connor Swindells and Aimee Lou Wood are dating in real life.
15. As a result of the #MeToo movement in which HBO took charge in 2018 by hiring intimacy coordinators for their productions, Netflix hired an intimacy coordinator, Ita O’Brien, to ensure that actors felt comfortable and safe while intimate scenes were rehearsed and later filmed.
16. Although the show takes place in a British school named Moordale Secondary, it has an American high school environment with lockers, Letterman jackets, a rugby ball being carried around (mimicking an American football) the hallways and no school uniforms.
17. The creators did this intentionally to make the show more accessible to international audiences (mainly American) and a homage to the John Hughes films that inspired the show.
18. Eric references Otis playing Super Smash Bros and on another occasion Otis asks if Eric would like to go and play it.
19. In real life Asa is a fan of the game series and plays competitively.
20. The streamer announced the season 2 renewal.
21. The second season icluded 8 episodes.
22. The production on the eight-episode season slated to begin in 2019 spring in the U.K.
23. Charlie Bartlett (2007) has very similar plot. Both protagonists is an outsider and both help high school student’s with therapy from a public toilet.
24. In episode 4, the poster hanging on the wall in the bedroom is for “All Good Things” a rock band from California.
25. A key location in Sex Education is the Forest of Dean, which is on the on the borders of Wales and Herefordshire in the United Kingdom.
26. The forest has previously been featured in Harry Potter, Star Wars, and King Arthur.
27. Maeve’s love life was (very) similar to Samantha’s in ’16 Candles’
28. The sex scenes are heavily choreographed, as Ncuti Gatwa (Eric) mentioned on a YouTube video.
29. Sex is obviously a common occurrence on this show, and production has its own ways of making it look as realistic as possible, using tiny, skin-colored underwear and cotton socks to cover certain body parts.
30. Tom Hopkins is the “crowd costume supervisor” on set, and he manages between 50-100 supporting actors on set every day. Each actor has several outfits, so Hopkins’ team has a lot to maintain.