Sex Education 5 Times We Felt Sorry For Jackson (& 5 times He Could’ve Been Nicer)

Sex Education: 5 Times We Felt Sorry For Jackson (& 5 times He Could’ve Been Nicer)

Jackson Marchetti is a fan favorite on Netflix’s Sex Education. Often, he’s an amazing character that fans root for, but sometimes he can be selfish.

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Jackson Marchetti is a fan favorite on Netflix’s Sex Education. He’s Moordale High’s Head Boy, an excelling swimmer, popular at school with students and teachers, and an all-round good guy. In season 1, he begins a relationship with Maeve, but she breaks up with him when she realizes he isn’t right for her.

In season 2, Jackson’s story takes a darker turn. Still heartbroken over his relationship with Maeve, he feels lost and empty. He also isn’t enjoying swimming, so he purposefully injures himself to take some time off. During this time, he gets the part of Romeo in the school’s musical production of Romeo and Juliet and forms a friendship with his tutor, Viv. He seems like a genuinely good person, but he often acts selfishly or without thinking.

10 FELT SORRY FOR HIM: Pressure

Jackson struggles with the pressure placed on him to perform well, especially in swimming. Early in the series, he reveals that he’s struggled with anxiety since he was a kid, and this pressure makes it worse.

Everyone around him expects great results from him, and his mother constantly presses him to train more, train harder, to pour all of his time and commitment to his sport. But he also feels pressure from the school, from his teammates, and from himself. By season 2, he feels like he can’t deal with it anymore. Many fans responded to this arc, even if they haven’t gone through exactly the same experience.

9 COULD’VE BEEN NICER: When Viv Helps Him

After Jackson is injured in the gym, he’s glad to have a few weeks away from training. But at Otis’s “small gathering” he reveals to his new friend Viv that he injured himself on purpose. She’s quick to comfort him but is also very concerned.

Jackson is irritated by the statistics she starts spouting and calls her a robot, which deeply hurts her feelings. He’s further angered when she tells his mums that he hurt himself on purpose. He refuses to talk to Viv (and his mums) for some time, but what she does is the right thing and it shows that she’s a true friend even when Jackson treats her poorly.

8 FELT SORRY FOR HIM: Back To Prison

After he recovers from his self-inflicted injury, Jackson sarcastically jokes that he’s going back to prison, meaning training. He quickly tries to cover up his morbid delivery of the joke, but his deflation is worrying.

Jackson is afraid of telling the truth about how he feels because he knows that his peers expect him to get back into the swing of things. His mum thinks he’s excited and ready to strive towards his goals, but he actually feels trapped in his athletic lifestyle and doesn’t see a way out that doesn’t involve hurting either himself or someone he cares about.

7 COULD’VE BEEN NICER: To His Parents

Though Jackson is scared, anxious, and uncertain, the way he treats his mothers isn’t something to be proud of. For instance, when their car breaks down, he tells them that they should get a divorce.

True, they often bicker, but many couples do. Jackson’s view of the world is so negative at this point, and he’s so sick of his mums arguing about his swimming, that he takes his anger out on his mums.

6 FELT SORRY FOR HIM: Maeve Breaks Up With Him

The way Jackson goes about convincing Maeve to be his girlfriend doesn’t make him out to be the most genuine person, but as he gets to know her, he truly does care for her. He believes that she likes him, too, so he’s confused when she decides to break up with him seemingly out of the blue.

The audience knows that she was never sure about him in the first place and that she’s starting to develop feelings for Otis, but Jackson is blissfully unaware of this. He even gets to know her brother, even though Maeve is notoriously private about her family. They open up to each other and he’s sure everything is great, so when she dumps him unceremoniously, viewers can’t help but feel sorry for him.

5 COULD’VE BEEN NICER: School Dance

Sure, Jackson didn’t deserve to be dumped so harshly, but he also should have treated Maeve better. For example, he just assumes that she’ll want to accompany him to the school dance without asking in advance or making sure she wants to go. After overcoming her reluctance, her brother helps her get a dress that she really loves.

When Jackson comes over to pick her up, she emerges from her room, almost unrecognizable, but he’s so wrapped up in his own problems that he doesn’t even pay attention to her. At the dance, he doesn’t seem to care if she’s having a good time and interrupts her conversation with Otis. At this point, he’s stumbling drunk. Later in the night, he comes over to her trailer and begs her to take him in even though she’s not happy with him. Amid all this, he still has room to feel jealous of Otis.

4 FELT SORRY FOR HIM: School Dance

Although he isn’t on his best behavior at the dance, he does have to witness Otis have his shining moment and Maeve’s admiration of him. Jackson notices Maeve’s awe-struck look even through his drunkenness, proving just how powerful and obvious her feelings for Otis are.

Afterward, he interrupts Maeve and Otis’s conversation and accidentally (or maybe not) reveals that he paid Otis so that he could get to know Maeve better. Viewers can’t help but feel sorry for him since he’s so drunk he barely knows what he’s saying or how much he’s hurting Maeve and their relationship.

3 COULD’VE BEEN NICER: To Otis

Before Jackson realizes that Maeve and Otis are in love with each other, he treats Otis rather poorly. He uses him for information without a care for anyone’s feelings and without Otis’s consent.

When Otis tries to talk to him, Jackson ignores him and makes his way elsewhere. He generally treats Otis like he’s a little kid who doesn’t deserve his full attention or serious consideration. In season 2, Jackson’s feelings towards him may be justified, but he’s a little more mature and restrained, so he’s not outwardly rude most of the time.

2 FELT SORRY FOR HIM: Drunk Otis

In season 2, Otis decides to host a “small gathering of friends” at his house to prove to both Ola and Maeve that he’s “chill” (he’s not). Jackson ends up coming along because it’s expected of him, but he certainly doesn’t have a good time.

Otis gets drunk and shares a brief interaction with an irritated Jackson. Both boys have by now seen Maeve hanging out with Isaac, and neither is happy about the new pairing. But when Otis tries to talk to Jackson, he interrupts him and says, “You do know that Maeve dumped me because she’s in love with you? And you’re still not with her.”

1 COULD’VE BEEN NICER: To Mr. Hendricks

When Jackson thinks of trying out for the school musical, he encounters Mr. Hendricks, who is slightly too enthusiastic about the prospect of Jackson being involved – just as he’s slightly too enthusiastic about everything.

Later, Jackson dismisses the teacher without the respect he deserves. The way Jackson speaks to him is generally disrespectful, and he doesn’t even attempt to show him any manners or confide in him. Mr. Hendricks already deals with the students’ worst – like when Eric yells at him – and he hasn’t done anything but support Jackson, so his rudeness is unfair.

Link Source : https://screenrant.com/sex-education-times-fans-pitied-jackson-marchetti-vs-hated/

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