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Sex Education from Netflix: More than “complex female characters”

Continued from what I started

Anthony Li
10 min readJul 10, 2020
Image from Power to Decide.

Previously, I wrote about how I feel about the female characters in Sex Education on Netflix. I would still recommend it as the story is simple but it delivers a lot more messages than just the simple story.

Not only are female characters complex, but the males also are as well. So this time I’m trying to talk about the male characters. Let’s start with Adam Groff.

The stressed bisexual “alpha male”

On Adam Groff

Image from Our Movie Life.

That’s me, and that’s my dick. — Adam (S1E1)

When heard of the name Adam, the first Adam that come up in my mind is the one in the Bible. That first human on Earth was created by God based on His own appearance. God created Eve using a rib of Adam’s. Adam and Eve…

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Anthony Li
Anthony Li

Written by Anthony Li

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