Warning: Spoilers and talk about homophobic abuse ahead.Whether it is the transgender character playing a sex worker who ends up dead or the only queer couple in the show being killed or brutally attacked, many shows featuring mostly straight roles often see the queer characters suffering.
The Walking Dead, Jane the Virgin, The 100, and many more shows have featured the "bury your gays" trope. And when Netflix's Sex Education premiered in 2019, it seemed that one of its main characters, Eric Effiong, would fall into that arc.For those unaware, Eric is one of the leads of Netflix's hit sex comedy Sex Education.