'Sex Education' Season 2 Episode 7 sees girls come out of detention agreeing on 1 thing, ‘unwanted d***s’
What can girls who are different as night and day from each other have in common? 'Sex Education' Season 2 Episode 7 explores this in-depth the day after Otis Milburn's (Asa Butterfield) rave party.
Headmaster Groff has successfully spread Dr. Jean's notes about all her student consultations in the school. This has left students shocked because what she told them during the sessions and the notes that she made about each of their conditions and queries are conflicting.
The notes also include information about Ms. Sands and Mr. Hendricks' relationship. One of the students then uses lipstick to write ugly notes on walls and girls' locker rooms about Ms. Sands' preference for hearing dirty talk while having sex.
Ms. Sands assumes that one of the girls wrote the notes and she puts Vivian, Maeve (Emma Mackey), Aimee (Aimee Lou Wood), Ola (Patricia Allison), Lily (Tanya Reynolds), and Olivia (Simone Ashley) on detention. She tells the girls that since they found it acceptable to demean a fellow woman down with hurtful words, their assignment during the detention is to come up with what the six of them have in common that would band them together despite the many differences between them.
It is while attempting this assignment that the girls find out that they have nothing in common. It is a drawn-out narrative that is required to underline the differences and in the case of Maeve and Ola or Vivian and Olivia; even antagonism between them.
Ola even calls Maeve out for brandishing feminism around as an identity, however, she is not truly feminist because she stabbed another girl in the back. This accusation is rooted in the fact that Maeve confessed her feelings for Otis when he was in a relationship with Ola.
This becomes a full-blown argument, but this is when all the emotions that Aimee has been hiding since she was sexually assaulted on a bus resurfaces. Since the incident, Aimee hasn't been able to get on a bus.
Then she was unable to let Steve, her boyfriend touch her because of how uncomfortable it made her feel. She even wanted to break up with him because of how confused she was feeling and all of this boiled over when she saw two girls fighting over a boy.
She yells at them with tears in her eyes and this stops Maeve in her tracks. Maeve hadn't seen Aimee like this before and that is what stops the argument between the girls and when Aimee shares how the incident has been affecting her, the other girls empathize with her.
Each of them recalls an incident where they got unwanted attention or were sexually assaulted or victim-shamed in their lives. Each incident also draws on how the girls felt after the incident.
Being anxious while walking in crowds, walking home alone at night or returning to the swimming pool where a man had once flashed his penis at you; all of it was made an uncomfortable task. Once each of them shares this, they figure out that this is the one thing that does bring them together despite all the differences.
Ms. Sands also finds out that the one to shame her was a boy who used lipstick because he was in love with her. So when she lets the others leave, she asks them out of curiosity "What did you arrive at?" To that, they say "unwanted d****".
Ola who understands the frustration that all of them feel at the moment tells them that there is a place where they let out all their anger. She takes them to the junkyard that Adam took her to the day before. There, all six of them smash a car together.
The next day, when Aimee arrives at the bus stop again, she sees Maeve and is surprised that not just her, but the other girls are also present to encourage her to travel back on the bus like she used to.
In the meanwhile, we have Otis wake up naked next to Ruby and he is shocked out of wits. He also learns later that Ruby doesn't remember if they used a condom or not.
So the two try to buy the morning-after pill and the run-up to this is equal parts hilarious and enlightening. Especially when Otis tries to buy the pill for Ruby and is told that only individuals with a vagina can buy one.
The virginity that Otis had held on to from the beginning of the show was lost one drunk night and Otis is also worried if it was consensual. He even asks Ruby to ensure that she had said yes to it all before he can relax.
'Sex Education' season 2 can be streamed on Netflix from January 17.
