History YMMV / SexEducation

* AccidentalAesop: Miss Sands’ character is a stellar example of how a student can improve drastically when they have a teacher that cares and goes the extra mile for them. Both Adam and Meave come from backgrounds that (for different reasons) make it difficult for them to succeed in school, but her care for them and participation in their lives truly helps them.

* SeasonalRot: Depending on who you ask, ''Sex Education'' experienced this starting in Season 3 or Season 4. While the first two seasons garnered pretty universal acclaim, by Season 3, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFuoLkfj3UMa video essay by Friendly Space Ninja on [=YouTube=] titled "Sex Education Season 3: Too Much of a Good Thing"]] gained lots of traction (it currently has 1.1 million views). Season 4 was even more divisive.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Otis. Plenty of fans are charmed by his {{Adorkable}} tendencies, shyness when it comes to his own sexual issues and on the whole being a very helpful and kind person. The rest of the fans has friction with him because of his selfishness, immaturity, entitlement issues and his romantic plot between Maeve and Ruby doesn't cover him with much glory.

** Even though Ruby/Otis has become one of the most popular ships from the show, with its fans constantly engaged in ShipToShipCombat with Maeve/Otis shippers, a considerable number of fans found Otis to be too unlikable in Series 4. So they decided to abandon the Ruby/Otis ship too.

** Even though Ruby/Otis has become one of the most popular ships from the show, with its fans constantly engaged in ShipToShipCombat with Maeve/Otis shippers, some people found Otis to be too unlikable in Series 4, so they decided to abandon the Ruby/Otis ship too.

* AbandonShipping: Some viewers have grown tired of the Otis and Maeve slow-burn, finding it clichéd and disliking how [[TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter anyone else who dates Otis or Maeve is never given a proper chance to be a love interest]], in favor of setting Otis x Maeve up but never following through on the thing they're ruining other things for.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Otis. Plenty of fans are charmed by his {{Adorkable}} tendencies, shyness when it comes to his own sexual issues and on the whole being a very helpful and kind person. The rest of the fans has friction with him because of his selfishness, immaturity, entitlement issues and his romantic plot between Maeve and Ruby can leave one wondering what either sees in him.

** See RonTheDeathEater above.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Otis. Most fans find him entertaining, his {{Adorkable}} tendencies, very helpful and kind person. The rest of the fans has friction with him because of his selfishness, immaturity, some reviewed him as an [[RonTheDeathEater asshole]], and his romantic plot between Meave and Ruby.

** Mr. Groff. (see UnintentionallySympathetic below)
* RonTheDeathEater: Despite being the main character, audiences agree that Otis is the worst character throughout the entire course of the show as he's done a lot of selfish immature decisions, such as standing Eric up on his birthday to help Maeve out, later resulting in Eric getting assaulted by homophobic guys, drunkenly insulting Maeve and Ola, the former mostly, in front of the entire school for playing with his feelings, being unable to tell Ruby he doesn't love her and unfairly lashing out at his mum when she tries to give him advice on Maeve. In series 4, he would just become even more divisive to audiences, as he disregarded Ruby's feelings for him and only used her as a prop to get himself elected as Cavendish's sexual therapist to replace O, the current one, and handling very poorly the situation with Eric and their different preferences. And when Otis finds out that Maeve's decision to return to Wallace University was influenced by Jean's conversation with her, he doesn't take it well and accuses her of ruining any chance he had with Maeve when the time finally came. Otis is seen as nothing but a remorseless prick. [[https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/tv/a37709652/otis-milburn-asa-butterfield-sex-education-villain/ There's even an article depicting Otis as the show's "true main villain"]].

* UnintentionallySympathetic: By season 3, Mr. Groff has earned a lot of sympathy when he was revealed to be abused by his father and older brother as a child. He's also struggling to reconnect with his ex-wife Maureen and son Adam and earn their trust back to make up for how harshly he's been treating them lately.

** Viv's relationship with Beau eventually goes toxic when his jealousy of Viv's interactions with the other boys takes over. To see the normally steadfast Viv huddled in bed with tears in her eyes while her phone is flooded with messages from Beau guilting her into forgiving him is unnerving.

* RescuedFromTheScrappyHeap: After playing the part of the RomanticFalseLead and turning audiences off with his possessive nature, Series 4 emphasized Isaac's redeeming qualities. He finds new love with Aimee and gives a very empowering speech about Cavendish College's ableist priorities.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: Otis. Most fans find him entertaining, his Adorkable tendencies, very helpful and kind person. The rest of the fans has friction with him because of his selfishness, immaturity, some reviewed him as [[RonTheDeathEater asshole]], and his romantic plot between Meave and Ruby.