🚨🚨🚨for non Australians: here's the explanation for Malakai

There are some complexities that only Australians will pick up on, the fact that Malakai was an Indigenous Aboriginal Australian, there's a lot more depth to the experience. Aboriginal people are treated terribly by police in Australia (hence the brutality scene), but it was so nice seeing him connect with other indigenous people in his life. The whole going off into the woods but is like going "out bush". Indigenous people are very connected to the Australian land in many aspects of spirituality and it was an experience for him to reconnect with the land, that's why he comes back healed and grounded. We're probably never going to see what happened there/why because it's a very personal experience and Aussies just know that and respect the fact that he was just reconnecting with the land, it would be interesting to have an insight tho if they did film it.

Idk if that was a good explanation but hopefully it'll help people who don't know much abt Australian culture.

The Malakai body slam scene seems to be at least inspired by a real event last year where a cop body slammed an Indigenous teen for ‘talking back’ and when the video circulated the media got mad at the teen’s ‘attitude’ whereas the cop got literally no punishment because his boss said “he was having a bad day”

So yeah when you said it was ‘real’ it basically was actually real

“If Sex Education met Euphoria and had a baby, and that baby grew up and had a baby with Grand Army and they all moved to Australia” is a perfect way to describe this show.

i loved seeing the way darren treated quinni vs how sasha treated quinni. really shows how quinni didnt need to be infantalized

When they're doing their protest & Quinni is still non-verbal and she writes out, "am I too much?" to Darren and they automatically say, "yes, but you're MY too much." It gutted me so deeply. Because while not on the spectrum, my mental illnesses make me feel hard to love and "too much" as well and Darren's continuous love and support of Quinni was honestly my favorite love story of the show.

I think Amerie is my best character cause it proves you can actually make a teenage girls likeable. It shows that most writers are actually lazy and don’t put in as much effort in writing teenage girls, they can still be flawed and likable.

Sasha having "empath" in her bio and turning out to be the one with the least empathy is very fitting

I think Sasha really accurately represents a real type of person. A person that desperately wants to look like they're accepting, open, and socially progressive. It becomes apart of how they identify themselves but it can also be quite shallow/superficial. She wants to be the type of person that would be in a relationship with someone on the spectrum, but doesn't actually want the reality of dating someone on the spectrum.

The ace reveal of Cash's character broke me. You neverrrr see good asexual representation in these shows, especially when everyone else is so hypersexualized. His character made me so happy.

The fact that a road man (ca$h) - a very stereotypical basic character usually- is one of the most layered well written characters I have seen. Ever. Is incredible and really shows what good writing and acting can do.

Can we talk about the teacher though? that poor woman was going THROUGH IT like-- the whole season i was hoping to have her get a better relationship with the class

I don’t think the writers ever wanted us to like Sasha. I think they intended for her to always be casually problematic self-centered and fake. But like someone in the real world who has all those characteristics it’s not popping up every day all the time but when it does you really get that glimpse of their true self

not to mention that malakai was high for the first time in his life throughout that night and then he goes thru a traumatic experience that made him have a breakdown and like dusty and harper instead of talking to him or taking him home to be safe or even trying to sober him up they take advantage of him in his lowest moment like HUH 🤨 im dusty and harper's #1 hater

i was genuinely so disgusted by that threesome bro. all 3 of them were really high and drunk and when dusty told harper that he regretted the threesome that he wasn't able to consent to she got up in front of the whole school and dunked on him for being bad at sex or wtv. malakai especially was in a really vulnerable state after the cop slamming him on the floor and harper fs took advantage of that. it should have never happened

Sasha is definitely meant to be kind of a bad person, and is actually very well written as such. At first glance she feels like she should be one of the more likeable characters but through the show it slowly becomes obvious that her actions are all pretty superficial (dumping Amerie so quick, constantly trying to help Quinni as if she's completely helpless, all the charity and raising awareness stuff which doesn't actually ever seem to amount to anything). I don't think her and Quinni's relationship was ever meant to appear as healthy, like pretty much every other relationship on the show.

“Not the BAyAngs, the BAyAngs”

I did not like Sasha at all and she was a bad partner and I understand dating someone on the spectrum must come with difficulties but I think most of their problems came from Sasha just being a trash person. Like all Quinny wanted to do was go to her book signing 🙄 she told sasha she didn't have to come and even told her to go to the party if she wanted to and Sasha CHOSE to go anyway and acted like it was the biggest inconvenience of her whole life🤭

to explain Malakai’s storyline when he went to the bush as an Aussie (tho i am white), it’s part of aboriginal culture in Australia to return to bush. Malakai is himself an aboriginal person and thats why the police brutality scene is so heartbreaking as its such a common thing for POC and especially aboriginal people to be targetted by police officers. The returning to country is common tradition to reconnect with the country and nature. I’m so glad that the show represented our country’s original owners experience as it truly isnt shown enough in media, especially worldwide!

I‘m autistic and I feel so represented by Quinny!!😭😭😭😭 She‘s queer, autistic, being played by an autistic actress….like!! I didn’t think it would happen! It‘s so nice seeing a character who thinks and perceives the world the same way I do.

Heyy, maybe some context: quinni is actually the first character to be able to represent a HUGE amount of people like us, the way she can be nonverbal but also shows to be equal to everyone else, how overstimulation works for her, how it works with her and how she survives it, it means so so much. Considering the pain of atypical, this show was amazing. This was the first time we, people who are social and autistic, were represented.
also: chloe hayden, quinni's actor, is an activist for autistic/neurodivergent/disability rights, heavily against sia, and it makes everything better for me