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"Within a week of its debut, “Adolescence” became Netflix’s top-charting TV show, with critics and viewers lauding it as a critique on social media-boosted toxic masculinity and its role in the teenage experience. It’s one of the first scripted projects to confront the rising cultural influence of the “manosphere,” a network of online spaces that promote rigid notions of masculinity and espouse misogynistic stereotypes about women."
" The story centers on Jamie (played by Owen Cooper), whose murder of his classmate Katie sends shockwaves through their English suburb. Each episode is shot in one continuous take and focuses on a different aspect of the fallout."
" Over four episodes, “Adolescence” explores themes of gender, misogyny, violence and extremism, and how the “manosphere” can influence online and offline behaviors, particularly in young men. Often in these online spaces, boys and men share messages around “alpha male” and “incel” culture."
" The show offers a harrowing look at how young boys can be particularly vulnerable to this kind of messaging."
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna196967
I havent't watched it. I'm sure it's a nice message about the radicalization of young men, but I don't think the show will give any info that I wouldn't know already.
I think it does a good job in portraying, how society fails young boys and as a result of that young girls too. In the entire series, we see the school that barely cares about the education of the student let alone their ethics and morals. Even the parents, while they knew jamie would be using the computer late at night despite having school, they rarely intervened or regulated what he was watching. Even the lack of regulation around such content knowing how gullible young kids are to such content.
I think you could really unveil, the kind of content Jamie was watching in ep3 when the psychologist went for the analysis and how he used words like ‘ incel’, ‘80-20 rule ‘ and the demeanour he had towards her just because she was a woman. It really struck a cord, when he shouted at her to startle her, as a way to assert power over her through fear, this is how some men do behave to threaten and scare women. In the end, he asks if she likes her, so everything he was watching on the manosphere was a desperate attempt to embody someone that, a bald guy on the internet told him is likeable.
I’d say, it’s a baby girl or an abortion. An elderly neighbor is living with her scrote son who is sucking her pension dry for alcohol and weed.