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A TV show is saying the same bullshit I do, therefore it's awesome

Adolescence review – the closest thing to TV perfection in decades
Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham’s drama about a teen accused of murder is astounding. Its dazzling performances, and the devastating questions it asks, will linger with you
"the closest thing to TV perfection in decades
"Incels, entitlement, Andrew TateThe world of “incel” culture, the message spread between boys and young men about what they are entitled to expect and to take from girls and women, comes alive. Andrew Tate’s name is mentioned by adults as they try to get to grips with what they are learning, but the children don’t bother – it is just the water they swim in.

Is this the most terrifying TV show of our times? Adolescence, the drama that will horrify all parents
Stephen Graham’s new show about a boy arrested for murder is utterly chilling. Its team talk rage, panic attacks and being bowled over by a 15-year-old
The fucking title
"Is this the most terrifying TV show of our times? Adolescence, the drama that will horrify all parents
"We've had a lot of stabbing incidents, so of course I focused on the few where it was cross-gender victimization and put in all the current correct buzzwords I could think ofAdolescence is very much the baby of Stephen Graham, who not only stars as the boy’s father, but also co-created and co-wrote the series. “There had been a lot of cases of stabbings across the country,” explains Graham. “Some were incidents with young boys who were stabbing young girls.”
"I didn't want the boy's real-life environment to have anything to do with it, it's all the incels, the manosphere“I didn’t want his dad to be a violent man,” confirms Graham. “I didn’t want Mum to be a drinker. I didn’t want our young boy to be molested by his uncle Tony. I wanted to remove all of those possibilities for us to go: ‘Oh, that’s why he did it.’”
As a result, Adolescence takes us somewhere even more terrifying. Jamie, the show’s 13-year-old subject, is an outwardly normal, well-adjusted kid. But the conversations around him, at school and online, start to lean towards incels and the manosphere. Slowly, a picture builds about how this regular kid found himself radicalised without anyone even realising.
As if most of us weren't here on other sites to vent about stuff happening to us IRL

‘Unnervingly on-the-nose’: why Adolescence is such powerful TV that it could save lives
The Netflix four-parter has touched many a nerve with its gut-punch power and staggering performances – but it’s also a vital call to action for parents and their teens
They hit with such depressing regularity that I've been reading about this one case over and over again for over two months at least by nowThe drama dropped on Netflix just as it emerged that crossbow killer Kyle Clifford had searched online for misogynistic podcasts and watched Andrew Tate videos hours before murdering three female members of the Hunt family. Then again, such stories hit headlines with depressing regularity. Perhaps Adolescence would have felt unnervingly on-the-nose whenever it launched.
>Out of hundreds of knife attacks by teen gang members, a small minority of them feature boys stabbing girlsThe initial idea came to its star, Stephen Graham, after a spate of distressing violent crimes. In 2021, 12-year-old Ava White was fatally stabbed by a 14-year-old boy in Graham’s home city of Liverpool. In 2023, 15-year-old Elianne Andam was attacked with a kitchen knife by 17-year-old Hassan Sentamu outside a Croydon shopping centre.
“It really hit my heart,” Graham said at the show’s premiere. “I just thought: ‘What’s happening? How have we come to this? What’s going on with our society?’” The actor roped in his regular collaborator, top-tier screenwriter Jack Thorne, to create a hard-hitting drama interrogating why boys are committing such extreme acts against girls.
>"Holy shit, what's happening? How can this be? Our entire society must reevaluate itself over this horror