United Kingdom |
Empire
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"[4th Season Review]: This concluding season is confident, satisfying and memorable for all the right reasons (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
London Evening Standard
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"[4th Season Review]: There's more than enough chemistry left to make things work (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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Canada |
The Globe and Mail
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"[4th Season Review]: If its primarily legacy is the sheer breadth of its representation, ['Sex Education']'s secondary impact could be drawing a functional blueprint for how to realistically, unsentimentally portray healing -and hope" |
POS
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United States |
The Wrap
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"[4th Season Review]: The show stays honest through and through" |
POS
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United States |
Slant
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"[4th Season Review]: [Its] beating heart remains its unwavering optimism in human nature (...) [The] weighty subjects, softened by moments of gentle humor, provide welcome reminders of what came easier and more often in the previous seasons (...) Rating: ★★½ (out of 4)" |
NEU
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Canada |
Screen Rant
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"[4th Season Review]: A series that for all its heightened, comedic moments has kept one foot on the ground to make sure its message rings true" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
Total Film
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"[4th Season Review]: While the series should have wrapped with season 3, there's enough humor and love left in 'Sex Education' to make this new season a journey worth taking (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
AV Club
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"[4th Season Review]: The series remains a watershed moment in the way it fused entertainment and didacticism, making a mark for itself as proof that we would all be better off talking openly and frankly about our many hormonal urges" |
POS
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United States |
The Playlist
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"[4th Season Review]: Laurie Nunn's creation may be one of the best things that Netflix has ever done" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
The Guardian
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"[4th Season Review]: one long list of frustrations (...) In this farewell series, the glorious horny teenagers we knew and loved have become earnest bores (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" |
NEG
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United States |
Collider
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"[4th Season Review]: From start to finish, 'Sex Education' was as messy as it was mirthful and as silly as it was sincere —it found something truthful about each of its characters. In this final season, it became transcendent" |
POS
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United States |
Mashable
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"[4th Season Review]: A powerful, heartfelt, and deeply emotional farewell" |
POS
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United States |
IGN
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"[4th Season Review]: 'Sex Education' rises to the occasion for its final season, banging out an ending that deeply probes its characters" |
POS
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United States |
Chicago Reader
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"[4th Season Review]: There aren't a lot of television shows that make the world a better place by existing. 'Sex Education' is one" |
POS
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United States |
Paste Magazine
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"[4th Season Review]: Season 4 was not always what I wanted it to be, but the series finale was" |
NEU
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United Kingdom |
The Independent
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"[4th Season Review]: The triumph of 'Sex Education' has been making didacticism appealing. There are few shows that have pulled off a sermonising tone with such panache (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
Telegraph
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"[4th Season Review]: 'Sex Education' gets by just fine based on the superb performances and terrific pairings (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
Metro
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"[4th Season Review]: While season three left us with so many questions in need of answering, the final installment will definitely leave you satisfied (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
Decider
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"[4th Season Review]: It's very well worth a binge for the genuine laughs and heartfelt emotion that each episode brings" |
POS
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United States |
New York Post
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"It's a shame to have the cast spread out for the final season, but it also gives this show a necessary atmosphere of growing up and moving on" |
POS
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United States |
Rolling Stone
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"[3rd Season review]: Education Season Three manages to find a very healthy balance between the emotional and sexual components of human relationships (...) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
AV Club
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"[3rd Season Review]: Season three dials up the risqué sex scenes, while retaining the lightheartedness and poignancy in the return to Moordale Secondary School." |
POS
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United Kingdom |
The Guardian
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"[3rd Season review]: There are still moments of magic here but, with fewer jokes and more worthy writing, the show that used to speed by is starting to feel very long indeed (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" |
NEU
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United States |
Paste Magazine
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"[3rd Season review]: Sex Education continues to get better and better because it knows what it’s about: these awkward, funny, and hopelessly endearing characters that have found themselves intertwined." |
POS
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United Kingdom |
The Independent
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"[3rd Season Review]: In its third outing, the series remains cringingly honest and engagingly heartfelt, with just the right amount of pathos" |
POS
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United States |
The Playlist
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"[3rd Season review]: The Kids Of Moordale Continue To Grow (...) give us all a reason to smile in a difficult social moment" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
The Independent
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"[2nd Season Review]: Makes even its most explicit material seem sweet and charming (...) The ensemble cast is excellent (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
Telegraph
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"[2nd Season Review]: Sweet, funny, admirable – but not very sexy (...) If I’d watched this as a teenager I would have concluded that sex was so boring (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" |
NEU
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United Kingdom |
Radio Times
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"[2nd Season Review]: It’s very difficult to find anything to complain about in this infectious and often informative comedy (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
AV Club
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"[2nd Season Review]: These characters screw up and screw in believable ways, and the teens and adults alike all feel like deeply real human beings (...) It’s sprawling and intimate all at once" |
POS
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United States |
Rolling Stone
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"[2nd Season Review]: The appealing performances and fundamental empathy remain (...) but Season Two keeps going off into more clichéd and less interesting territory (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 5)" |
NEU
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Canada |
Screen Rant
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"[2nd Season Review]: A satisfying season 2, offering plenty more heart and humor (...) Season 2 doesn’t lose what made the show so much fun the first time around" |
POS
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United States |
TV Guide
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"[2nd Season Review]: While some parts of 'Sex Education' Season 2 were frustrating, it remains one of the most important shows about youth of our time (…) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United Kingdom |
Mirror
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"[2nd Season Review]: [It] continues its comforting mix of relatable storylines, lovable characters, and hilarious dialogue. We only wish there was more (…) Rating: ★★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
The Hollywood Reporter
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"[1st Season Review]: Likely to make viewers laugh, blush and maybe feel some things (...) [Netflix] has another hilarious and cringe-worthy winner on its hands with the new dramedy 'Sex Education'" |
POS
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United States |
The New York Times
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"[1st Season Review]: [It] explores sex as a learning experience (...) A smart, sensitive look at teens finding their place and figuring out the owner’s manuals for their bodies" |
POS
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United States |
Time
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"[1st Season Review]: Populated by multidimensional characters with sympathetic problems, the show embodies–and espouses–some of TV’s most progressive views on sex." |
POS
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United States |
Rolling Stone
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"[1st Season Review]: Hilariously gross and endearingly sweet (...) It toggles between blunt humor and a gentler consideration of the emotional lives of its characters (…) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)" |
POS
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United States |
Variety
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"[1st Season Review]: There’s so much more than the vast majority of those teen comedies ever truly touch, and so it’s wonderfully refreshing to watch 'Sex Education' address these more specific questions on-screen with such care and humor." |
POS
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United States |
Forbes
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"[1st Season Review]: 30 minutes too long and suffering an identity crisis (...) There will be plenty that find joy in the series (...) but that doesn’t change the fact there will be a lot of be desired from the series." |
NEU
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United States |
rogerebert.com
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"[1st Season Review]: As [it] becomes more confident and aware of what it is and what it wants, it starts to feel great. It feels healthy and funny and sexy and complicated and sad. And perhaps most importantly, it feels like a story well-told." |
POS
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United States |
Entertainment Weekly
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"[1st Season Review]: A sweet, progressive British dramedy (...) that blends teen sex-romp tropes with a refreshing level of empathy" |
POS
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