Sex Education trailer: Netflix releases first look at Gillian Anderson and Asa Butterfield in new comedy series

Anderson stars as a sex therapist mother whose son decides to share her wisdom with his classmates

Netflix has released the first trailer for its new British comedy series Sex Education.

The show centres on a teenager, Asa Butterfield’s Otis, who sets up an underground sex therapy clinic at this school, despite being himself somewhat of a hopeless case.

His specialist knowledge all comes from his own mother, Gillian Anderson’s Jean, a sex therapist who has no trouble being brutally honest with her own son.

The trailer opens on her telling him: “I’ve noticed you’re pretending to masturbate and I was wondering if you wanted to talk about it.”

Emma Mackey plays bad-girl Maeve and Ncuti Gatwa plays his best friend Eric, with both characters helping Otis in his bizarre quest to gain respect among his peers.

Kedar Williams-Stirling, Aimee-Lou Wood, and Connor Swindells also star in what’s set to be an eight-episode series.

Sex Education was created and written by Laurie Nunn and executive produced by Jamie Campbell and Ben Taylor. It was directed by Taylor and Kate Herron.

The series will be released on Netflix on 11 January.

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