The season four premiere of “Sex Education” left more to be desired, as a new setting removes some of the series’ lovable antics.

This raunchy, awkward and sex-positive comedy premiered its fourth and final season by highlighting all the changes going on in the lives of the characters.

Otis and Eric along with several of their old classmates are now transitioning into their A-levels at a new school, Cavendish College.

The antithesis of the dingy Moordale Secondary, Cavendish College is a technologically advanced, drama-free and student-led queer utopia.

At Cavendish College, Otis attempts to set up his sex clinic once again, but is thwarted when he finds out the university already has a sex therapist in place, an easygoing influencer who goes by O.

Otis further struggles in the episode as he tries to manage his long-distance relationship with Maeve, who has started university at Wallace University in America.

These problems come to a head in an unfortunate incident involving nude photos and a school projector.

The premiere continues as the audience watches existing characters adapt to change; Jean tries to get back to work despite having a newborn, Adam struggles to overcome his past breakup with Eric and Maeve navigates a temperamental professor played by Dan Levy.

While the new themes and story arcs that the first episode introduced sound interesting, one may also find oneself feeling nostalgic for the show’s previous seasons.

While the show alludes to the fact that not all of the students from Moordale Secondary came to Cavendish College, the loss of characters like Olivia, Ola, Anwar and Lily left the dynamic of the show feeling off.

Regarding Lily and Ola’s absence, “Sex Education” creator Laurie Nunn said in a LadBible interview, “Those storylines felt like they had just come to a really lovely ending in series three, and I felt like the characters of Lily and Ola just really felt like they ended in a really happy place.”

While the neat endings of these characters are not a bad thing, the gap in their absence in the fourth season leaves the audience wishing the show had met the same fate.

While the new setting of Cavendish College is an aesthetically pleasing backdrop to the show, it felt too perfect to be interesting to the plot.

Hopefully, it will soon be revealed in future episodes that this university is not as perfect as its facade, because without the grit and imperfection of Moordale’s sexually repressed, imperfect population, “Sex Education” will lack what kept viewers’ attention.

“Sex Education” will need to pine for viewer attention even more this season as audience members are no longer left in suspense over the will-they-won’t-they dynamic between Maeve and Otis. Perhaps there will be a resurgence of the Adam and Eric arc, but that is likely wishful thinking.

Despite the bland first episode, “Sex Education” still has room to unveil new and worthy sources of suspense.

All episodes of “Sex Education” season 4 are now available on Netflix.