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Adolescence (Netflix)
Posted on 7/14/26 at 9:11 am
Posted on 7/14/26 at 9:11 am
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This has been out awhile and I watched 4 or 5 months ago.
I have to say, the acting was incredible and it is a great discussion on the bullying that can occur through social media. The bullying follows kids 24/7. But before socials, you had to deal with it face to face at school but when at home you didn't have to face it and could get relief with family or friends.
With Socials, it is constant and it is easier for bullies to do it from a distant instead of being face to face.
I don't want to spoil anything so I'll stop if you haven't seen it.
There was one episode of a counselor questioning the boy in detention that was unreal. After the episode it hit me that they did all 50 min in that one scene and interview. But it was edge of your seat stuff.
I would highly recommend it. It is a bit depressing in it shows the total lack of morality, respect for authority, and rudenss of teens in the highschools in Britain. But watch it. It's unreal how good the story and acting is.
This has been out awhile and I watched 4 or 5 months ago.
I have to say, the acting was incredible and it is a great discussion on the bullying that can occur through social media. The bullying follows kids 24/7. But before socials, you had to deal with it face to face at school but when at home you didn't have to face it and could get relief with family or friends.
With Socials, it is constant and it is easier for bullies to do it from a distant instead of being face to face.
I don't want to spoil anything so I'll stop if you haven't seen it.
There was one episode of a counselor questioning the boy in detention that was unreal. After the episode it hit me that they did all 50 min in that one scene and interview. But it was edge of your seat stuff.
I would highly recommend it. It is a bit depressing in it shows the total lack of morality, respect for authority, and rudenss of teens in the highschools in Britain. But watch it. It's unreal how good the story and acting is.
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Posted on 7/14/26 at 9:20 am to jp4lsu
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it shows the total lack of morality, respect for authority, and rudenss of teens in the highschools in Britain.
particularly the white kids
Posted on 7/14/26 at 9:21 am to jp4lsu
It was pretty good.
The filming is a technical achievement. Each episode is one continuous shot with no cuts or editing. If anyone screwed up they had to re-shoot the entire episode. One of them had to be re-shot 16 times.
The filming is a technical achievement. Each episode is one continuous shot with no cuts or editing. If anyone screwed up they had to re-shoot the entire episode. One of them had to be re-shot 16 times.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 9:23 am to jp4lsu
It was pretty dang impressive how it was shot. Like you say, the continuous therapy scene and the long car ride/trip to Home Depot episode. Very unique and kept you engaged. And like you say, fantastic acting. But overall i was pretty disappointed in it given the hype and awards it got.
The kid was insufferable like you say. Just awful. But not giving spoilers the part that pissed me off the most was the ending. Hated the ending.
Not bad at all, I'd say 3/5, just not 5/5 like people were making it out to be.
The kid was insufferable like you say. Just awful. But not giving spoilers the part that pissed me off the most was the ending. Hated the ending.
Not bad at all, I'd say 3/5, just not 5/5 like people were making it out to be.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 9:35 am to Sam Quint
How anyone walked away with that message from the series is mystifying.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 10:57 am to VOR
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How anyone walked away with that message from the series is mystifying.
It's because they race-swapped from the story the show is sort of based on. That's all. But the actual show has nothing to do with race and it isn't needed for the story.
IMO this series was fricking excellent and should be required viewing for parents, especially in the age of social media. It is a great example of why you should hold kids off of social media for as long as you can.
They way they shot and executed the show is overly impressive, but the acting is what stands out to me. It is exceptionally acted, especially from the dad.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 11:04 am to jp4lsu
I thought it was (mostly) phenomenal. Acting was great and the emotional impact hit me hard.
SPOILER ALERT
But a few issues I had:
1) The show wonderfully depicted an emotionally disturbed boy who allowed his unchecked anger to manifest in the murder of a young girl. The show, however, tried to communicate that this was the result of unhealthy masculine behaviors and somewhat-accidental neglectful parenting. The father says, “oh he plays video games all the time like the other boys” as if his anti-social behaviors were just part of the social sphere he lived in. I didn’t see a societal problem in the show with things like videogames and social media. What I saw was a mentally ill boy who needed psychiatric help. Maybe that’s what the writers intended, but it seemed more like social commentary on contemporary adolescent masculinity.
2) The show focused on dangerous white boys when the massive increase in adolescent male violence is 100% correlated with the rapid rise in African and Islamic migrants. The UK has a societal problem that is being exacerbated both economically and culturally by their foolish immigration policy.
Great show but the message seemed a little off.
SPOILER ALERT
But a few issues I had:
1) The show wonderfully depicted an emotionally disturbed boy who allowed his unchecked anger to manifest in the murder of a young girl. The show, however, tried to communicate that this was the result of unhealthy masculine behaviors and somewhat-accidental neglectful parenting. The father says, “oh he plays video games all the time like the other boys” as if his anti-social behaviors were just part of the social sphere he lived in. I didn’t see a societal problem in the show with things like videogames and social media. What I saw was a mentally ill boy who needed psychiatric help. Maybe that’s what the writers intended, but it seemed more like social commentary on contemporary adolescent masculinity.
2) The show focused on dangerous white boys when the massive increase in adolescent male violence is 100% correlated with the rapid rise in African and Islamic migrants. The UK has a societal problem that is being exacerbated both economically and culturally by their foolish immigration policy.
Great show but the message seemed a little off.
This post was edited on 7/14/26 at 11:45 am
Posted on 7/14/26 at 11:15 am to StringedInstruments
It's a show buddy, calm down and enjoy it for what it is.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 11:18 am to jp4lsu
This is actually a race swap that people should be very upset about
Posted on 7/14/26 at 11:39 am to StringedInstruments
Stringedinstruments....you might add "spoiler alert" at top of your post in case somebody hasn't seen it. The mystery around who did it was part of the grip the show had on you.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 11:42 am to Maderan
What's weird is that I didn't really notice the continuous shot scenes until the therapist interviewed the boy. Then I noticed it with the Home Depot scene. It was spectacular in that regard that I didn't really notice it.
After the therapist / boy interview episode and the credits started. I sat there thinking, "crap that was all one scene for the whole episode".
It reminded me of the tension in some of Taratino's film where he has some long scene that just builds and builds, but it is a 20 min scene.
After the therapist / boy interview episode and the credits started. I sat there thinking, "crap that was all one scene for the whole episode".
It reminded me of the tension in some of Taratino's film where he has some long scene that just builds and builds, but it is a 20 min scene.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 1:47 pm to jp4lsu
I have suggested Adolescence to lots of friends and coworkers, especially if they have kids. I'm not entirely sure what I was supposed to learn or how I was supposed to feel afterwards. But this is my take:
This show could have centered around a variety of issues/crimes (overdose, rape, DUI, etc.) and kept a similar message. I think parents MUST be more involved with their kids and realize that there are too many outside influences these days to be on cruise control. Bullying has reached new heights for these young kids. And heaven forbid you make a mistake or have an embarrassing moment. It can be captured, shared and saved for eternity in a manner.
It's not a popular sentiment but I like that we get an up-close view of the perpetrator's family. It's very difficult for us to remember that sometimes a person just does something stupid or evil and it had nothing to do with his upbringing. His family has to suffer in their own way knowing that this will follow them always and that their son/brother might be gone forever. When a tragedy like this happens there's more than one person or family that gets destroyed.
This show could have centered around a variety of issues/crimes (overdose, rape, DUI, etc.) and kept a similar message. I think parents MUST be more involved with their kids and realize that there are too many outside influences these days to be on cruise control. Bullying has reached new heights for these young kids. And heaven forbid you make a mistake or have an embarrassing moment. It can be captured, shared and saved for eternity in a manner.
It's not a popular sentiment but I like that we get an up-close view of the perpetrator's family. It's very difficult for us to remember that sometimes a person just does something stupid or evil and it had nothing to do with his upbringing. His family has to suffer in their own way knowing that this will follow them always and that their son/brother might be gone forever. When a tragedy like this happens there's more than one person or family that gets destroyed.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 1:48 pm to CartmansMom
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It's a show buddy, calm down and enjoy it for what it is.
if it's just a show then why did they race swap?
Posted on 7/14/26 at 2:02 pm to Sam Quint
Probably because it would be difficult to explain why Graham would have a Muslim or African refugee for a son.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 3:20 pm to StringedInstruments
Spoilers
I didn't take it that way at all. It had nothing to do with "dangerous white boys." I'm not even sure how you could get that out of it. IMO it was all about the dangers of social media in general, and then also unobserved correspondence (social media, texting, gaming, etc.). It's just a cautionary tale that even good parents can miss things and have something bad happen to their kid.
I never got the impression that the parents were bad parents at all. Sure, it's likely that they missed some things, but so does everybody else. And that was presented perfectly at the end when the dad is talking to the mom about their daughter and how awesome she was. And he was like "What did we do with her that made her so perfect?" And the mom was like "The same thing we did with him..." And that just drove home the point, for me at least. You can raise kids very similarly and they still can have completely different outcomes in life.
If you knew nothing about the original story that it's loosely based on, there would be no real reason to bring race into it at all IMO. So I'm not sure why so many people seem to with this show, while ignoring just how good of a show it is in its own right.
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1) The show wonderfully depicted an emotionally disturbed boy who allowed his unchecked anger to manifest in the murder of a young girl. The show, however, tried to communicate that this was the result of unhealthy masculine behaviors and somewhat-accidental neglectful parenting. The father says, “oh he plays video games all the time like the other boys” as if his anti-social behaviors were just part of the social sphere he lived in. I didn’t see a societal problem in the show with things like videogames and social media. What I saw was a mentally ill boy who needed psychiatric help. Maybe that’s what the writers intended, but it seemed more like social commentary on contemporary adolescent masculinity.
2) The show focused on dangerous white boys when the massive increase in adolescent male violence is 100% correlated with the rapid rise in African and Islamic migrants. The UK has a societal problem that is being exacerbated both economically and culturally by their foolish immigration policy.
I didn't take it that way at all. It had nothing to do with "dangerous white boys." I'm not even sure how you could get that out of it. IMO it was all about the dangers of social media in general, and then also unobserved correspondence (social media, texting, gaming, etc.). It's just a cautionary tale that even good parents can miss things and have something bad happen to their kid.
I never got the impression that the parents were bad parents at all. Sure, it's likely that they missed some things, but so does everybody else. And that was presented perfectly at the end when the dad is talking to the mom about their daughter and how awesome she was. And he was like "What did we do with her that made her so perfect?" And the mom was like "The same thing we did with him..." And that just drove home the point, for me at least. You can raise kids very similarly and they still can have completely different outcomes in life.
If you knew nothing about the original story that it's loosely based on, there would be no real reason to bring race into it at all IMO. So I'm not sure why so many people seem to with this show, while ignoring just how good of a show it is in its own right.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 3:22 pm to Sam Quint
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it's just a show then why did they race swap?
You just answered your own question. I'm not a fan of race/gender swapping that Hollywood does, but if I'm interested in a show I'm going to watch it. It's pretty simple, just don't watch if you don't like the choices they make.
Posted on 7/14/26 at 4:07 pm to CartmansMom
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It's pretty simple, just don't watch if you don't like the choices they make.
ok. with your permission, may i continue complaning about the blatant anti-white anti-West agenda they continue to push, or should i just pretend it isnt happening? just looking for clarification from CartmansMom
Posted on 7/14/26 at 4:39 pm to CocomoLSU
SPOILER ALERT
I didn't really gather that the kid was mentally ill, but in the therapy scene he had anger and temper issues, which I guess can be a bi-polar thing going on the way it switched on and off. It switched on with any sort of questioning about liking girls or being a man. He told a story about his dad loosing his temper and tearing down a she in the yard or something. So his dad had the same anger issues when confronted.
So yes their could've been bi-polar, but I took it as not having control over his temper. I don't know if it was blame the parents type of show, but more telling parents that there is stuff going on on-line and you need to be on top of it. But yes I would highly recommend anybody with pre-teens to watch this and prepare your plan of action when the social media request start coming from you're kid.
I didn't really gather that the kid was mentally ill, but in the therapy scene he had anger and temper issues, which I guess can be a bi-polar thing going on the way it switched on and off. It switched on with any sort of questioning about liking girls or being a man. He told a story about his dad loosing his temper and tearing down a she in the yard or something. So his dad had the same anger issues when confronted.
So yes their could've been bi-polar, but I took it as not having control over his temper. I don't know if it was blame the parents type of show, but more telling parents that there is stuff going on on-line and you need to be on top of it. But yes I would highly recommend anybody with pre-teens to watch this and prepare your plan of action when the social media request start coming from you're kid.
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