We’ve all been there. Our favourite show is snatched away from us before we’re emotionally ready to let go. Before the series naturally ends, or before the characters that we have grown to love have finished their arcs. Traipse through the swaths of the TV industry and you’ll see the carcasses of shows that ended before they should have, victims of financial cutbacks or unsuccessful ratings. The biggest outcries at their demise find space in the zeitgeist to return in some format. The most infamous of which is Joss Whedon’s sci-fi western Firefly which was able to return briefly as a TV movie called Serenity which served as a way of closing out the show. While we still get series cancelled before finalising storylines – recently, the reboot of iCarly ended on a cliffhanger but was subsequently cancelled – often the writers of the series know they’re coming to a close, even if there is not enough time to cauterise the sprawling narrative threads.
The fourth and final season of Netflix’s hit show Sex Education just hit the streaming platform, with their writers having been told this season was to be the last. Not put on hiatus, or – as of yet- to be reimagined with a new cast à la Skins, but instead ended completely. The show, which has run from 2019, began with awkward Otis Milburn (Asa Butterfield) attempting to woo the book-smart hothead Maeve Wiley (Emma Mackey) by starting a sex clinic at his secondary school, peacocking the sex knowledge he acquired through the osmosis of being the son of renowned sex therapist Jean Milburn (Gillian Anderson).
This article was originally posted on October 15th 2023. Article linked below.
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