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The executive producer of Netflix hit Sex Education, Jamie Campbell, explains how comedy is always the driving force of the show’s drama
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Sex Education has been widely praised for its writing, its characters, its acting – Aimee Lou Wood, who plays ‘Aimee’, won a BAFTA earlier this year for Best Female Performance in a Comedy for her work in series two. Then there’s the boldness of the approach it takes to its central theme – teenage sexual exploration, in all its guises. And integral to every element of this mix is comedy. Comedy was an important part of what
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first attracted Executive Producer Jamie Campbell to the idea when he read the first script by the series’ creator Laurie Nunn – that and the range of characters and stories which together underpin what he calls the “novelistic aspects” of Nunn’s writing. “Tonally, when you are developing a show, you don’t start out thinking ‘We’ll
push the comedy to make the themes more palatable’,” he observes. “The comedy that was in it – and still is – set the tone for everything from the get-go because it came from Laurie’s register, not by synthetic design.”
THE COMEDY THAT WAS IN IT SET THE TONE FOR EVERYTHING FROM THE GET-GO
Over its first three seasons, Sex Education
has moved seamlessly between an array of different comedic styles – including slapstick – while also going to some quite dark places in episodes that are consistently whole- heartedly dramatic. “It’s nuanced, not straight forward,”
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