The hit Netflix show’s last season is its weightiest yet. Its creator talks about her ‘grief’ at saying goodbye, fighting anti-trans hate – and why this season keeps her up at night
This month brings the release of the fourth and final season of Sex Education, Netflix’s uproarious, off-kilter and hugely popular teen sex comedy. For fans, it’ll mark the end of a five-year journey with a series that made a name for itself as one of the streaming service’s sweetest, boldest comedies, a show whose 80s and 90s teen film spirit belies its frank and forward-thinking approach to conversations about gender, sexuality and the rich inner lives of horny teens.
For the series creator, Laurie Nunn, it marks the end of a near-decade of her life in which she went from creditless TV writer to the architect behind a show Channel 4 rejected, only for it to become one of Netflix’s biggest comedy smashes. “A lot has happened in nine years – and I haven’t really worked on anything else,” she says. “I feel weirdly grief-stricken – but then I’m like: ‘They’re not real characters – that’s kind of embarrassing!’”
