Sex Education is a fun, coming-of-age comedy-drama. It tells Otis’ story, a high school kid who sets up a secret sex therapy clinic with Maeve. The show dives into topics like sexuality, relationships and consent. It does so with humor and honesty. Great cast, sharp writing and cool visuals make it a fan favorite. It is one of Netflix’s big hits. So, let’s get quizzing!

Meet the characters from Sex Education

Otis Milburn

Otis is the kind of awkwardly charming brain who thinks in metaphors and somehow ends up giving the most practical advice, even when he can’t apply it to his own mess. He’s shy, sweet, slightly stilted in conversation — like he’s always one thought behind — but there’s this stubborn little core of decency that makes him a low-key anchor for everyone else. He’s a secret softie for romantic comedies and makes terrible, earnest mixtapes, though he’ll deny both things fiercely if you ask. Also? He has a cardigan collection and occasionally overthinks a single text message for three days straight.

Jean Milburn

Jean is a whirlwind of opinionated warmth and borderline chaos — a brilliant sex therapist who somehow both blesses and judges at the same time. She’s loud, clinical, dramatic, and devastatingly sincere; she’ll psychoanalyze a room for fun and then bake you biscuits like nothing happened. Can be maddeningly intrusive (in the best/worst way), but will also show up when it matters, sometimes wearing too much eyeliner and once with a bag of odd pamphlets. She’s very moralistic and morally flexible depending on the snack table, also collects vintage seduction manuals because why not.

Eric Effiong

Eric bursts in like a glitter bomb — flamboyant, radiant, ferociously loyal, and so fun it hurts. He’s fashion-forward, joy-spreading, and Breaks. Your. Heart. with his honesty; also has this intense tenderness under the glitter and bravado that surprises people who only see him as a party starter. He makes playlists for the apocalypse and will fight you for his friends and also for a badly behaved airport security guard, honestly. Sometimes he’s dramatic and sometimes he’s deeply serious, which is the whole point, I think?

Maeve Wiley

Maeve is the razor-sharp, impossible-to-ignore genius with a cigarette tucked somewhere and a plan that might be brilliant or completely reckless. She’s fierce and cynical and also secretly soft — she’ll read you out but then hand you a spare pen and not tell you why she cares. Ambitious, wounded, brilliant at scheming her way out of things, and suspiciously into poetry when she wants to be romantic (or vindictive). She loves books and bad coffee, hates small talk, and is bafflingly sentimental about some obscure thing she’ll never admit to.

Adam Groff

Adam is the human contradiction belt: built like a brick wall but with a hidden, wobblier interior that he’s trying to rebuild on his own terms. At first glance he’s all bluster and fists, but there’s a core of confusion, sensitivity, and quiet courage that grows and peeks out — often the last thing he wants you to see. He’s often angry, sometimes unfair, sometimes painfully earnest, and surprisingly good with animals (like, soft hands type of thing), which is the best kind of spoiler. He collects grudges and regrets but is also capable of tiny, very sincere kindnesses that sneak up on you.

Jackson Marchetti

Jackson is peak charismatic athlete energy — loud, polished, a million-watt smile, and secretly terrified of messing it all up. He’s all about results and badges and trophies on the surface, but also deeply worried about being stuck in a box he didn’t choose; sometimes he’s the most emotionally literate person at the team pep talk, sometimes he’s spectacularly oblivious. Loves routines, protein shakes, and dramatic entrances; cries at anniversaries and also maybe loves a telenovela on a bad week. He’s a leader until something personal caves in, which is when he becomes weirdly human and real.

Aimee Gibbs

Aimee is sunshine with a stubborn spine — the quietly brave friend who grows into herself in a million little moments. She’s kind, slightly scatterbrained, maybe forgetful with dates but never with people, and has this way of making you feel like everything will be okay (even when she’s freaking out a little). She experiments with hair a lot and collects terrible puns; also, she can be way braver than she looks and sometimes surprises even herself. She’s the friend you call at 2 a.m., and she’ll pick the right song for your breakup even if she’s blushing while doing it.

Michael Groff

Michael is the classic difficult boss-type with a lot of layers — strict, infuriating, controlling, but not entirely heartless; there’s a battered, softer spot under the stern suit. He runs things with an iron clipboard and a quiet fear of losing control, which makes him formidable and oddly sad at the same time. He loves rules the way other people love comfort food, and yet he hums in the kitchen when he thinks no one’s paying attention (yes, really). He’s not the villain you expect; he’s more like the architect of his own awkward missteps.

Lily Iglehart

Lily is gloriously offbeat: a tiny chaos sprite of sexual curiosity, creativity, and alarmingly specific interests (like, she probably owns three different kinds of pens for erotic poetry). She’s unapologetically weird, full of earnest DIY sex-education energy, and will hand you a zine and a bizarrely sincere anecdote without blinking. She’s both a little naive and alarmingly brave in equal measure, and somehow manages to be both a walking Tumblr mood board and an Instagram-level chaos moment. Also, she might collect oddly shaped erasers — this is a fact I am choosing to believe.

Viv Odesanya

Viv is crisp, ambitious, and with a head full of plans; she projects control like a perfectly ironed blazer but there’s always a suitcase of complicated feelings behind the resolve. She’s politically savvy, sharp-tongued when she needs to be, and quietly vulnerable in ways she only lets out through postcards or furious note-taking. She’s the friend who leaves to do something big and you’re proud but also kind of resentful because she’s leaving snacks behind, which is petty but true. She’s cosmopolitan with a soft, sometimes-fumbling heart that makes her decisions more human than they look on the surface.