10 Best Sex Education Episodes

The sequence of Maeve getting an abortion to the song Asleep by The Smiths is one of the show's real highlights in the first season, and it really introduced us to who Maeve was.

At the clinic, she is told that she needs somebody to pick her up after the procedure and she reluctantly chooses Otis, since Aimee can't do it and she has nobody else.

Not only did the episode popularise the saying 'casual Hamm' it gave a really emotional look at abortion and how it can affect the women that go through it. The singular performance by Lu Corfield as Sarah, a Mum of 3 who is in for what is said to be another in a long line of abortions, is quietly devastating and she tells Maeve, after seeing Otis, that if she wants a happy life, she needs to keep the sweet ones around.

Otis waiting for Maeve, in-spite of her being angry when he shows up early and discovers what is happening, is such a sweet moment and the look on her face says it all when she finds him sat there. Their feelings toward one-another grew 3 sizes that day.