Spoilers ahead!
The last season of ‘Sex Education’ on Netflix surprised fans. It said goodbye to some main characters, like Ola and Lily. But the final eight episodes were really good, giving each character a lot of feelings and storylines without making everything too perfect. Let’s see where all the main characters ended up in the final episode.”
Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield)
Otis and Maeve got closer in Season 4, especially after her mom passed away. They finally became a couple, but there’s a problem. Just after they become intimate, Maeve says she’s going back to America. Otis is really sad about it and can’t even watch her leave, but he understands her choice.
“Otis gets upset when he finds out that his mom, Jean, persuaded Maeve to leave for America. This causes a big argument between them. But by the end of the last episode, they make up and are okay again. Otis also decides to stop trying to be the student counselor and lets O have it, realizing he shouldn’t have competed with her in the first place.
“The big thing is that Otis and Eric become friends again. They had a fight because Otis felt left out, and Eric thought Otis didn’t get him. Now, they’re back together as best friends. Otis goes back home and finds a note from Maeve saying goodbye. Her final words end the show.”
Eric Effiong (Ncuti Gatwa)
“Eric did really well at Cavendish College. He made friends with other LGBTQ+ students in a group called The Coven. But he also struggled with being both Christian and gay. In the last episode, the church won’t take the money they raised because they don’t agree with the school’s open-minded beliefs.”
After the church’s rejection, Eric can’t go ahead with being baptized. He speaks up to the congregation, saying he’s a Christian and proud to be gay. He gives them a choice: accept him as he is, or he’ll have to leave. The church stays silent.
Leaving the church doesn’t mean he’s giving up on his faith. Eric has a special experience where he believes he hears God’s message. God, represented by Jodie Turner Smith, tells him his purpose is to promote a more accepting form of Christianity, one that embraces people for who they are. After helping Cal in a tough moment, Eric realizes this is his true calling. He later tells Otis he wants to become a pastor.
Maeve Wiley (Emma Mackey)
Maeve had a tough season, but in the finale, she finally gets some good news. She gets a call from an editor at a publishing company in America. This happened because Ellen, a student who got the internship Maeve wanted, helped her out by sharing Maeve’s work with some of her new connections.
Maeve also gets to speak up to Professor Molloy (Dan Levy), who was really unkind with his criticism. She tells him calmly that, unlike many students, she wasn’t always told she was amazing or deserving. She reminds him that, as a teacher, he has a lot of influence, especially over students like her who come from less privileged backgrounds. He realizes he’s been acting out of jealousy because his students still have their whole future ahead of them. Putting the professor in his place was important, but what mattered most was that Maeve “remembered what she’s made of.”
Aimee Gibbs (Aimee Lou Wood)
After being sexually assaulted on the bus towards the end of Season 2, Aimee has come a long way in her recovery. But the show is careful to show that this process takes a while and isn’t always linear, so although Aimee finds empowerment through photography in this season, she’s still cautious about pursuing a physical relationship with her new love interest, Isaac (George Robinson). In the finale, she exorcizes some demons by returning to the bus stop where she disembarked after being attacked and taking a series of portraits wearing the jeans that she wore that day. Then she burns the jeans and returns to school, where she shares a steamy kiss with Isaac.
Adam Groff (Connor Swindells)
Adam and his dad, Michael, hadn’t been close for a long time. Michael, who had been distant and controlling, finally said sorry to Adam. He confessed that he didn’t like himself—not Adam. This brought them back together as a family.
Adam also made a big step forward by telling his coworker at the stables that he’s bisexual. She wasn’t bothered by it at all and even asked him out for coffee.
Cal Bowman (Dua Saleh)
Cal has been struggling a lot this season because they feel really uncomfortable in their bodies. They really want a specific kind of surgery, but the waiting list for it is very long, and they can’t afford to pay for it privately. In the final episode, Cal goes missing for more than a day, which worries everyone at Cavendish. Otis, Ruby, and O find Cal’s things in the trash. Luckily, Eric finds Cal safe in the woods. Cal shares a very sad feeling, saying they don’t think the world accepts people like them.
After the church doesn’t accept the money they raised, Eric and The Coven decide to use it to pay for Cal’s surgery. This gives Cal new hope for the future.
Jackson Marchetti (Kedar Williams-Stirling)
Jackson finally finds his birth father, Jerome, and goes to visit him without warning. Jackson is very excited to meet him and explains who he is. However, Jerome is very cold and tells Jackson to leave. It’s clear he doesn’t want anything to do with him. This is really hurtful for Jackson.
Later, Jackson learns the truth from his mom: Roz had a relationship with Jerome while he was already married, before she met Sofia. When she became pregnant with Jackson, she tried to involve Jerome in his life by sending him letters, but he never opened them. Roz and Sofia didn’t want Jackson to feel unloved by his father, so they made up the story about a sperm donor to protect his feelings. At first, Jackson is angry about being lied to, but he ends up getting even closer to his mom as they help him through the pain of feeling rejected.
Ruby Matthews (Mimi Keene)
Ruby and O finally talk face-to-face about the past. O apologizes to Ruby for being mean to her when they were kids, and Ruby accepts the apology with kindness. But when O runs for student counselor and wins because her opponents quit, the other students at Cavendish don’t forgive her so easily. They boo and jeer at her.
Surprisingly, Ruby stands up for O. She says that giving O another chance would be the right thing to do. Her words change the students’ minds, and O gets her old position back. Ruby is also welcomed into The Coven, a group of friends, which means she ends the season in a good place.
Vivienne ‘Viv’ Odusanya (Chinenye Ezeudu)
At first, Viv thought her new boyfriend, Bo, was a sweet guy who really liked her. But he started acting bossy and wanting to control her. Even though she tried to make excuses for him, Viv finally confessed to her friends that she was frightened. Aimee and Jackson both said that Bo’s actions were not okay and that he was treating her badly.
With their encouragement, Viv found the courage to confront Bo. She firmly told him to never reach out to her again.
Dr. Jean Milburn (Gillian Anderson)
Having finally accepted that she’s experiencing postpartum depression in the season’s penultimate episode, Jean initially quits her radio show in order to focus on being a full-time mother. But as her sister, Joanna (Lisa McGrillis), points out, this isn’t really what she wants to do—it’s what she feels she should do, and so within a day she’s back at the studio. She negotiates to keep doing the show, but on her terms, offering in-depth, one-on-one advice to callers. Her first caller on her comeback show turns out to be Joanna, who talks about the sexual abuse that she endured as a child from their mother’s boyfriend. It seems the sisters have never really talked much about the abuse as adults, and it somehow makes sense that they’re finally able to do it for the first time on a public radio broadcast.
Joanna moves back in with Jean for emotional support as she confronts her past, and the season wraps up with Jean seemingly about to tell her ex-fling, Dan, that he’s Joy’s real father. The fact that Dan is also Joanna’s ex makes the whole situation a little awkward, but if anybody can navigate this psychological minefield with grace, it’s Dr. Milburn.
SOURCE: PARADE