At the moment, Laurie Nunn, the creator of Sex Education, is not writing any spin-offs. She does not close the door to any option because this fictional universe, in her opinion, is a “very fertile site” and “adolescents are a very universal topic.” In a conversation with La Vanguardia on the occasion of the end of the Netflix series, she revealed that she “would have to find the hook and the characters to follow” to get on with it. “There are no conversations about it but it is something that could happen,” she warned.
And, from here, we propose three spin-off ideas that we would like to see later, once we have been able to settle the outcome of the Moordale students, who reached a state of cathartic maturity in the last episodes.
Maeve (Emma Mackey), actually, already had her spin-off. They were each and every one of the scenes that the character spent at Wallace University, the American university where she was on a scholarship in a writing course. Maybe he had a crisis and distrusted his talent because of a frustrated teacher (Dan Levy) and had to return to Moordale due to the death of his mother and even considered staying to be with Otis (Asa Butterfield), but the character's conclusion It was clear: she had to return to the United States to exploit her potential and be independent. It was her turn to fly. And why don't we see this process?
The spin-off would also be as organic as possible. He doesn't have a family. You have no obligations in the United Kingdom. Once romantic ties with Otis are broken, establishing a strong friendship in her place, it makes sense for her to remain isolated from the rest of Sex Education. The absence of the other characters we know would be justified and Maeve is such a strong character that it would be stimulating to see what this new stage of her life would be like.
And, as And Just Like That, the sequel to Sex and the City, showed, a few well-done WhatsApp messages and a couple of phone calls can keep the previous British universe alive without turning into a slab.
The other logical step is simply to repechage the character of Otis and follow his new path in college. There is a plot that is more than exhausted after his dynamic with O (Thaddea Graham) in the fourth season: the idea that he must compete with other young people to be the campus therapist. But what would the college experience be like for Otis, who has always believed he knew more than anyone? What would the exploration of it be like, both on a formative and individual level?
In this spin-off with the scent of a sequel, there are two characters who would be indispensable: Otis and Ruby (Mimi Keene) with whom an open plot was left and who Laurie Nunn was able to provide with complexity in the last seasons of Sex Education. She, let us remember, is in a process of transformation: the deconstruction of her viperine tongue and haughty attitude. But it would be an opportunity to recover all kinds of secondary characters like Lily (Tanya Reynolds), Anwar (Chaneil Kular) or Jackson (Kedar Williams-Stirling).
Imagine, for example, the ideal plot for the second or third season of this series: that Jean (Gillian Anderson) accepts a teaching job at the same university as Otis, with the son desperate because his mother's obsession intrudes on his territory. and affect your social life.
And finally, Aimee deserves her own spin-off after Aimee Lou Wood even won the Bafta for best comedy performance. This actress has merit: she was the most iconic comic performance in fiction and at the same time had the most consistent, complex dramatic plot that required more tact.
After discovering his vocation for artistic expression, what better than to see his steps studying fine arts or in an artistic academy. There he would verify that, even though his brain works differently than that of his colleagues, there is nothing strange about him. The inclusion of Isaac (George Robinson) would be optional in this spin-off.
And, while one can visualize the other two spin-offs as comedies with dramatic elements like Sex Education, this The work of art of Aimee Gibbs cries out to be a sitcom.
