![]() ![]() It’s also a credit to Adam’s evolution that he invites Miss Sands to see him perform with his dog Madam in the county dog trials that night, remembering his mom’s suggestion that “People like to be asked to go to things. ![]() His deeply poignant poem says he didn’t know he had a heart until Eric, that no matter whether their relationship survives, he can thank him for showing him he had a heart. But Adam also takes a big step forward in his development through the mere act of committing words to paper. Eric finally ends their relationship because he recognizes they’re in different places and he doesn’t want to lose more of himself by staying with someone just beginning to explore his identity. He’s still early in his self-expression journey compared to Eric, who realized just how ready he was to fly this season. ![]() He’s been thinking about poetry for a while now, at first as a jealous reaction to the poems Rahim wrote Eric and then as an earnest way to convey how he feels.Īdam has always been defined by his quiet anxiety, closed-off nature, and inability to let loose and broadcast himself to the world. But he’s been changing slowly throughout the show, and now, he conclusively proves himself worthy of Eric’s love.Īdam writes Eric a poem before he knows for sure he’s going to lose him. Adam’s rehabilitation following the relationship’s origin could’ve easily been rushed, or oversimplified, or unbelievable. He’s a character who started this series as a homophobic bully and who was then positioned, at the time bizarrely, as a romantic hero capable of sweeping a past victim off his feet. In “Episode Eight,” Adam Groff conclusively becomes one of Sex Education’s most remarkable accomplishments in empathy. ![]() Nobody gets left behind - of the sprawling main cast, no characters have left Sex Education yet, and almost the entire recurring cast has stuck around since the beginning, too, only adding more characters as time goes on. The two might have little in common on the surface, but there is an overflowing well of empathy for each character at their core. The show it reminds me of the most might be Orange Is the New Black, another favorite of mine from the last decade. One of the biggest joys of Sex Education’s evolution between seasons has been its approach to its ensemble cast. ![]()
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