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Still Processing

The New York Times

News Commentary, Society & Culture, News, Arts

4.89.2K Ratings

🗓️ 24 January 2019

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

The new Netflix show “Sex Education” feels so refreshing because for the longest time, there has been a dearth of cultural properties that specifically deal with the realities of sex. Sure, there’s sex in film and TV, but in recent history, there has been an absence of content that treats sex (and the complicated feelings that it can bring up) not as an aside, but as the main event. From “Fatal Attraction” to “Sex and the City” to “Knocked Up” to “Black Panther,” we trace the history — on screen and off — of how we went from lots of bad sex to no sex to hopefully some good sex moving forward. Discussed this week:"Sex Education" (created by Laurie Nunn, 2019)"Fatal Attraction" (directed by Adrian Lyne, 2019) "Basic Instinct" (directed by Paul Verhoeven, 1992)"Color of Night" (directed by Richard Rush, 1994)"The Witches of Eastwick" (directed by George Miller, 1987)"Sex and the City" (created by Darren Star, 1998-2004)Bill Clinton denying his sexual relationship with Monica Lewinsky (1998)"Knocked Up" (directed by Judd Apatow, 2007)"X-Men" (directed by Bryan Singer, 2000)"Black Panther" (directed by Ryan Coogler, 2018)

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I'm Jenna Wortham.

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I'm Wesley Morris. We're two cultures.

0:04.0

Oh no, that was what?

0:06.0

You sound like you have a hernia.

0:08.0

Or like you're on the toilet.

0:10.0

Try it again.

0:11.0

I'm Jenna Wortham.

0:12.0

And I'm Wesley Morris.

0:13.0

We're two culture owners at the New York Times.

0:16.0

And this is still processing.

0:26.0

Okay, so Wesley, all week, I've been watching this new show called Sex Education.

0:36.0

Oh!

0:37.0

And I'm obsessed with it!

0:39.0

It's got a really sexy billboard. I can tell you that.

0:42.0

I know, right? And the show does not disappoint.

0:44.0

Okay. It's about this kid named Otis.

0:46.0

He is the son of a sex therapist who is played by,

0:50.0

none other than Agent Scully, Jillian Anderson.

0:53.0

She makes me excited to age.

0:55.0

She's so refined. Her outfits are so good.

0:58.0

She's so sexy.

1:00.0

But basically, he's being therapist by his mom.

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