Colin Ray Hendricks, commonly known as Mr. Hendricks, is one of the recurring characters in Sex Education. He is portrayed by Jim Howick.
He was a science teacher at Moordale Secondary School who also conducted the Swing Band and organized the school play.
Throughout the Series[]
Season 1[]
Colin is a music teacher at Moordale Secondary and as such is the head of the school's Swing Band.
Season 2[]
During the course of season 2, Colin and Emily Sands get into a sexual relationship and begin to see each other frequently. They soon encounter problems as Colin struggles with dirty talk as he doesn't like to demean Miss Sands as he words it and in one of their earlier encounters calls her a 'lovely female dog' after Emily asks he call her a 'naughty bitch'. This ends the encounter and Emily goes home. It's at this point that Colin asks Otis for help with dirty talk. Otis tells Colin to 'write a script and practice speaking the words until they feel comfortable' and to meet her halfway. While Colin follows this, he goes too far and starts saying he will make treat Emily badly and make her lose her job. This of course ends the encounter.
Things continue like this until Otis gives Colin some new advice which is 'tune into her orange'. He and Emily sit down and he asks why she likes dirty talk and help him to understand. It is here that Emily tells him it doesn't matter what he says just *how* he says it. Colin now understands and begins naming random and whacky kitchen objects in a smooth monotone. This turns out to work and the pair have successful intercourse and their relationship improves.
Alongside his relationship, Colin is also in charge of the school play; a 'contemporary telling of Romeo and Juliet’. At the start of term, he holds auditions for the play and at the request of Vivienne Odusanya, Jackson Marchetti auditions for the school play and Colin gives him the part of Romeo and the part of Juliet goes to theatre fanatic Florence Simmons. With the roles given, the cast and swing band spend the term rehearsing with Colin.
In the coming weeks before the play is executed, students and staff begin noticing that the two characters on the poster are 'kissing in a forest of dicks'. Even though people chalked it up to just bad drawing, the play was in fact mostly just about sex, complete with songs about 'hard pricks', aliens with penis hands and cast members with vaginas on their heads. This was presumably Lily's idea as she was the second in command for the play behind Colin, although he doesn't seem to care about the theming and goes so far as to encourage the students to keep up the hard work and sees it as a form of expressionism.
On the night of the play, he encourages Jackson throughout the evening albeit badly. He tells him that "he's not nervous, just excited". Despite his bad advice, he really just wants Jackson to follow this new passion, even going so far as telling another student, Quentin to "shut the f*ck up" and calls him "a piece of sh*t" when the latter offers to take the place of Jackson who was experiencing a bout of stage fright.
Season 3[]
Colin's still dating Emily for almost a year now.
After beginning of a new school year, Colin seems to dislike the new rules which were made up by Hope. During one of the Acapella Group and Swing Band rehearsals, Hope walks in and watches it, while they sing "F*ck the Pain Away" by Peaches. Afterwards, she requests Colin to pick more appropriate songs for the band to perform. Since now, the songs that the Acapella Group sings during assemblies can't be chosen by students.
During the school trip, Colin proposes to Emily, but she rejects him by saying they're dating less than a year. But, instead of this, she suggests moving in together, which cheers Colin up.
During the day when Moordale Secondary's supposed to change into Sparkside Academy, Colin and Emily doesn't seem to like the idea of a sex-free campus. When students are taking control of the stage, introducing "F*ck the Pain Away" as the new school anthem, Colin not only enjoys it, but sings it together with the students. After their performance, Colin stands up and calls the students his kids.
Season 4[]
Colin attended Maeve Wiley's mother’s funeral alongside Emily, after which he performs the song “With or Without You”.
Relationships[]
Romances[]
Emily Sands (girlfriend)[]
- Main article: Emily and Colin
From the beginning of season 2, Colin gets into a romantic relationship with fellow Moordale teacher Emily Sands. Their partnership starts off fine at first but soon becomes rocky when Colin struggles with dirty talk in the bedroom and Emily no longer wants to see him as much. After getting assistance from Otis, Colin tries dirty talk again only to fail after misunderstanding the advice and accidentally threatening Emily. He then gets different advice from Otis and asks Emily why she likes dirty talk and to help him understand. It is at that point he begins naming random kitchen objects in a slow baritone which works for Emily and their relationship recovers.
By the start of season 3, it appears Colin and Emily have begun experimenting as Colin now plays his drum set whilst the two are having sex. Throughout the season, their relationship remains mostly the same albeit for good and by the end of the season they have agreed to move in together.
In season 4, Emily and Colin attend Maeve's mother’s funeral, showing her their compassion.
Friends[]
Michael Groff (friend; former boss & roommate)[]
Throughout seasons 1 and 2, Michael Groff is the head of Moordale Secondary and is subsequently Colin's boss. Colin seems to be one of the only staff members that bares the brunt of Michael's ire. This is due to the sexual nature of the school's songs and play, as well as his inability to answer questions from students during SRE lessons observed by Jean Milburn. Despite all of this however, Colin looks past this, even when Michael interrupts his show in the penultimate episode of season 2.
By season 3, Michael is down and out and pretends to go for an interview at Moordale to give the impression he has a job. When he arrives, he is interrupted by Colin who says they should hang out to which Michael brushes him off. However, after overhearing a phone conversation between his brother and sister-in-law in which they conspire to kick him out of the house, Michael says he has a place to stay and promptly goes to Colin's and asks if he can stay for a bit, to which Colin says yes. Michael stays with Colin for the remainder of the season and they begin to become mutually good friends despite Michael's behaviour towards Colin during his tenure as headmaster.
Appearances[]
| Episodes | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | Total | |
| One | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 7 | |
| Two | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | - | - | ✔ | ✔ | ✔ | 6 | |
| Three | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | ✔ | - | ✔ | ✔ | 6 | |
| Four | - | - | - | - | - | ✔ | - | - | 1 | |
| Total | 20 | |||||||||
| ✔ = Appeared | M = Mentioned | |||||||||
| - = Did not appear | P = Pictured | |||||||||
Memorable Quotes[]
| “ | Shut the f*ck up, Quentin. You piece of shit. Jesus Chirst | ” |
| — Colin to Quentin[src] |
Trivia[]
- According to Sean Wiley, Colin used to have a harsh drinking problem and used Lynx Africa to cover up the smell of alcohol. It is unknown whether he has managed to stay sober or if he still drinks from time to time.
- He has hemorrhoids.
- Colin's middle name was revealed to be "Ray" during the school trip in France.[1]
- Colin is a huge fan of Ed Sheeran's music.
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Promotional Images[]
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