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Sex education - Real, witty and tempting series

Directed by: Kate Herron, Ben Taylor Cast: Asa Butterfield, Gillian Anderson, Ncuti Gatwa, Emma Mackey, Connor Swindells Language: English Year: 2019 Genre: comedy, drama Created by: Laurie Nunn Synopsis  Socially awkward teenager Otis Milburn is ambivalent about sex, despite his mother being a sex therapist who is frank about all aspects of sexuality. After inadvertently assisting the school bully with his sexual performance anxiety, Otis sets up a sex advice business with Maeve - a confident but vulnerable classmate - to educate their fellow students in how to deal with their own sexual problems. My view  Sex education is sweet and funny. Moreover, it's a vivid teenage series which do care about its wise characters. The story stretches with an awkward embarrassed teenager Otis Milburn who struggle with his divorced mother's occupation (a sex therapist) and her influence on his personal life. Otis accompanies with Eric Effiong bril...

All the bright places

Theodore Finch  is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might die, but everyday he also searches for -and manages to find -something to keep him here and alive and awake. Violet Markey  lives for the future, counting the days until graduation when she can escape her small Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's death. All the bright places is a 2015 young adult novel by Jennifer Niven. Unlike what the cover conveys, it is not a mediocre teenage love story.  All the bright places is a story about two damaged kids doing a school project, a story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who wants to die. Finch and violet meets at the top of the bell tower at school, both considering to jump off. But somehow they both save each other from doing so.   Later finch persuades violet to be his partner for their U.S geography-“wander Indiana project”. They explore every bit of Indiana before graduation. Th...