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<b>A British</b> comedy called "Sex Study Room", which was recently aired on Netflix in the United States, was written by Laurie Nunn and starred a group of very good young actors, including Asha Butterfield ("Ender's Game"), Emma McCann, Shuti Gaitwa, Connor Swindle, Kedar Williams-Stirling, Aimee Lou Wood, and actress Gillian Wood, who is already over fifty years old. Anderson (The X-Files).
The play is set in a British high school where a boy is embarrassed that his mother is a sex therapist, but opens his own "sex clinic" with a "bad girl" in school, making money and helping students solve problems. It's a blatant and hilarious comedy of youth, with creative styles, dialogue, music and performances. If "American Pie" is a TV series that takes place in the UK and is directed by Wes Anderson, it is pretty much "Sex Study Room".
Young and beautiful male and female protagonists
The show begins with the audience getting to know Otis Milburn (Asha Butterfield), a shy, awkward teenager who struggles to adjust to school life. He lives with his mother, Dr. Gene Milburn (Gillian Anderson), a well-known sex therapist who educates her son in an unusual way and always invades Otis's privacy. Otis has a friend named Eric (Shuti Getwa), a young gay man whose family is religious and whose father does not approve of his lifestyle. Otis soon meets Maeve (Emma McCann), the so-called "bad girl" at school, abandoned by her parents and having an affair with Jackson (Kedar Williams-Stirling), the school's most popular athlete.
When everyone at school learned that Otis's mother was a sex therapist, Maeve came up with an idea to open a sex clinic at the school, see other students, and have Otis work as a therapist. The first person they help is the school bully, Adam (Connor Swingdale), who has some sexual problems with his girlfriend Amy (Aimee Lou Wood). The new business soon brought Otis and Maeve closer, but when Otis got her heart set on Maeve and Maeve didn't necessarily respond, things got complicated and the friendship between Otis and Eric was put to the test.
In the beginning, the TV series was smart, savvy, and very stylish, and the music was great. But I think <b>in reality, there is no high school in the world that can be as culturally enterprising, the community is diverse, all teenagers are very sexually active, love to listen to music, and like the retro culture of the seventies and eighties. This background setting is really a wonderful virtual world. </b>
Stills from "Sex Self-Study Room"
The show also does a good job of shaping the characters, and everyone is very three-dimensional and not conventional. There is an awkward teenage hero (Otis), his gay friend (Eric), a "bad girl" (Maeve) who is born poor and misunderstood, a silly school bully (Adam), a brainless school flower (Amy), and an arrogant school athlete (Jackson).
<b>The image of each character is enhanced by the sweet and gentle script and the excellent interpretation of the actors. </b>The first season of the show gave each character room to grow and change, and also gave the audience time to understand their lives and what they really looked like.
Gillian Anderson obviously enjoyed the role, speaking with just the right British accent and taking on a lot of the humor in the play, but also when she was distracted. The mother-son chemistry between her and Butterfield is good, and her own side story is solid. All the young actors in the play are excellent, act well, and play the roles very eloquently.
Aimee Lou Wood's interpretation of Amy goes beyond the general "school flower" image and is particularly sweet. The character of Connor Swingell has a lot of room to play, he deeply portrays the character of Adam, and proves that even the school bully has feelings. Kedar Williams-Stirling plays Jackson, the "school man", and his performance is also very good, but his most brilliant part is when he tears his face and exposes his inner vulnerability. The most difficult role in the play is the role of Shuti Geitwa, who plays the bright boy Eric, who has both his own ideas and respect for the character itself. He succeeded in adding an interesting layer to Otis's relationship with Maeve.
The show's most prominent star seems to me to Be Emma McCann, who plays Maeve. If you think this young actress is familiar, sorry, not because she's acted before, she's only made two very small films before that. The familiarity is likely because McCann looks a lot like Oscar-nominated Margot Robbie. Having said that, McCann's portrayal of Maeve is really good, playing the feeling of "difficult survival mode" in the character, but it can also make people feel that she is still a trembling little girl in her heart.
However, without a funny, affectionate, pleasing protagonist, these supporting roles are useless to play well, fortunately, the male protagonist played by Asha Butterfield is likable and gentle. The actor had a lot of love for his interactions with other actors, especially With Anderson, McCann, and Gatwa. Butterfield is completely convincing that he is the uncomfortable, fearful little boy of the opposite sex, but he was also very convincing when he became a juvenile therapist, and you can understand how he unknowingly learned these vocational skills from his mother.
His performance is real and powerful, surrounded by masters, he can also bear the burden of the male protagonist, and interprets the series very well. <b>Finally, "Sex Study Room" is a sharp, bold, smart, interesting and heart-warming series, although it may not be suitable for all viewers, but as long as you watch it, you will find it interesting and very moving. </b>
<b>Other media comments:</b>
"Sex can be exciting, scary, extremely embarrassing, or it can be a wonderful adventure. It has the potential to change a lifetime, or it can be frightening and boring. Regardless of your experience in this regard, having a relationship has the potential to be magnified into a promise, or a threat. But for teenagers, when it comes to the real chapter, they don't understand these truths. Sometimes, what you want or need to know is how to keep the person you're in a relationship decent with.
Sex as an embellishment has been around in teen comedy for decades, so "Sex Study Room" is no exception. Laurie Nunn's new comedy is all about the archetypes of 'eighties American high schools—from untrained nerds, to athletes in baseball uniforms, to rebellious teenagers who smoke cigarettes, to vicious girls in flashy 'Side Sisters' coats—and it really hurts to see someone pull out an Apple phone.
The show also frames sex itself and multiple sexual illnesses, using empathy, jokes, and potentially useful patience to anchor the characters in their own experiences (or lack of experiences).
The play is very correct in saying that making or not having sex is just the beginning of a child's recognition of what they really want or want to do. Technology aside, the show also explores issues of sexuality and inclusion, as well as the process of finding what you need and learning to speak up for it. You'll also see a huge difference between perfunctory sex and real pleasure. These issues have rarely been really addressed in a large number of previous teen comedies, so it is refreshing for "Sex Self-Study Room" to put these more specific issues into the play and explore them with a caring and humorous attitude. --Variety Magazine
"When it comes to teenage sex on TV, people often discuss whether it's ethical and responsible enough, but few people talk about whether that display is bad enough. Sex is often disguised or idealized, but it has not been said that it can also be a clumsy, awkward, noisy trial-and-error process. "Sex Study Room" will be launched on Netflix on Friday, which is a fun British teen comedy, as the title writes, there are many sexual shows in the play.
But the most exciting part is the 'self-study room' part. Like its american junior high school animation "Youth Without Taboos", "Sex Study Room" treats sexual exploration as a learning process that explores the real self, understands what you want, and how to connect with others. —The New York Times
"Netflix's latest teenage life series is both a raucous sexual comedy and a resonance for young people, and Asha Butterfield and Gillian Anderson are very good in it. People are different from generation to generation, but telling a story of 'adolescence' can never go wrong. Regardless of their purchasing power or brand loyalty, everyone who has lived through the early twenties has had the ignorance of youth, the clumsiness of first love, the anxiety sweat of exams and papers, and can generally smile lightly when looking back at youth.
Previously, there have been episodes like "On My Block", the lamentable "Everything Is Not Going Well", and the first season of "Thirteen Reasons", Netflix has done a very good job in the theme of "adolescence" in recent years, and recently has a funny and respectable masterpiece, the comedy "Sex Self-Study Room". Both a bit like the wonderful type of animation drama "Youth Without Taboos" produced by Netflix, but also a bit like the ending of "Everything Is Not Going Well", the audience of this "Sex Self-Study Room" is probably also people who are experiencing the nightmare of adolescence.
But the show is very intense and extensive, and the format of the picture may be embarrassing for teenagers or young adults — the best way to watch the show is to watch it when you're alone, and then, if possible, talk frankly with others. —The Hollywood Reporter
"'Sexual intercourse can be wonderful,' gene Millburn said to her son Otis." But it can also lead to great pain. And if you're not careful enough with sex, it could even ruin your life. Jean should have understood. She is a sex therapist and a best-selling author in the field, but her marriage to Otis's father (who is also a sex therapist and had previously written books with her) did not end because he was constantly cheating.
Otis should also know about sex, after all, he has witnessed his father's unbearable behavior, and he knows how his family was broken and caused him to lose his sexual desire as a teenager. He didn't dare masturbate, and an attempt to break a hole with a hungry girl at school triggered a panic attack. In the beginning, the show relied too much on these thrilling plots. For example, the story begins with the story of adam (Connor Swindle), a gifted but sexually handicapped school bully, who disguises an orgasm in front of his girlfriend Amy (Aimee Lou Wood), while Amy clings to the question of where the "semen" is.
In the early days of the show, like Adam, most of the students' problems were pretending to be sexually confident, but that wasn't the case. But this phenomenon makes Otis, Maeve, and Otis's good friend Eric (Shuti Getwa) quickly find the crux of the matter, and discover how frightened and confused their classmates are when dealing with sex.
Most of Otis's advice isn't technical, but rather the psychological reason behind the problem: A good friend who has known each other for a long time probably shouldn't develop into a couple, or Amy should figure out what she really likes instead of trying to find satisfaction with a new hot boyfriend. The show illustrates that both sex and gender identity can be comical or scary, depending on the situation, and Eric's path to self-discovery is involved in both, and the problems encountered are quite intense. - Rolling Stone Magazine