Sex Education star Aimee Lou Wood spoke candidly about the upcoming changes in season 4 and why she believes they would benefit the plot. Since its release, Sex Education has received praise from critics. It has won recognition for the way it handles serious themes and problems while maintaining its charm, humour, and acting talents. In September 2021, Sex Education was renewed for Season 4.
In a conversation with Digital Spy, Wood was candid about her viewpoint on the upcoming changes to Sex Education. She described how, as they adjust to a new school, new professors, and new circumstances, the characters will actually go through transformation. Wood believes that the overarching message of keeping one’s identity in the face of change will come through, though. She is also personally anticipating how fresh and novel everything will be, even though she misses those who have moved on.
She said, “The characters feel like they’re in very new territory because they literally are, they’re at a new school. A lot of our feeling slightly off-centre is actually also just because of what is happening in the story which is that they are [at] a new school. Aimee, particularly, her best friend’s in America, she doesn’t have a boyfriend for the first time ever, she’s at a brand new school where she doesn’t have any mates. So there’s a lot of newness for all of the characters and I think that that does make the show feel very new.”
She further added, “It’s about maintaining who they are when everything around us is different because it really does feel different. We’ve got different directors, different writers, so it’s very, very, very new which can also be exciting. We definitely love all the new additions, they’re all amazing, but we also definitely miss the people who exited, we really do miss them.“
Although it makes sense that supporters would be wary of change, it need not be a bad thing. Even while the show will miss actors like Simone Ashley, Patricia Allison, Tanya Reynolds, and Rakhee Thakkar, the other changes might give it new life. The students had to transfer to a new high school after Moordale High shuttered at the conclusion of Sex Education season 3. As a result of this modification, the programme will have the chance to introduce new lecturers, new characters, and a completely new setting whose response to Otis’ clandestine sex therapy practise is unexpected.
There will also be other possibilities to give the characters more depth in the meantime. According to Wood, her character would go through the first experiences of not having a boyfriend and not having many friends. Otis will be managing a long-distance romance with Maeve in the meantime. The characters have numerous chances to develop further and evolve while discovering how to keep their identities and relationships despite the shift.