Adolescence

Just watching adolescence on Netflix.
Probably among the most powerful series I have ever watched.

Just watched the 3rd episode with the psychologist - wow that kid is terrifying :scream:

The acting is spot on and you start to sympathise with the plight of the kid.
Not going to say more

netflix also put it on my front page, the most boring time wasted on netflix :joy: i think i fell asleep in the middle, maybe the ending was the only bit interesting, the rest oh dear…i need to google what was the message of this serie, my first conclusion “middle class kids have too much phone time, so out of boredom they kill, everyone else is at fault” :joy:

I’m not sure you’re supposed to watch these series in one go.

It would be like liquidising a complete Michelin-starred meal and drinking it in one go.

That family was not middle class!

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It probably made for more shocking TV:

Stephen Graham, the show’s co-creator who also played Eddie Miller, told Netflix’s press site Tudum that a series of recent stabbings by boys inspired the tale.

“There was an incident where a young boy (allegedly) stabbed a girl,” Graham said. “It shocked me. I was thinking, ‘What’s going on? What’s happening in society where a boy stabs a girl to death? What’s the inciting incident here?’ And then it happened again, and it happened again, and it happened again. I really just wanted to shine a light on it, and ask, ‘Why is this happening today? What’s going on? How have we come to this?’"

Fifteen-year-old Elianne Andam, for example, was stabbed to death in London in September by Hassan Sentamu, then 17. Sentamu was sentenced to a minimum of 23 years in prison per a March court sentencing.


Hassan Sentamu

Here

Ehhmmm what was it then???

Well i honestly see nothing Michelin here, really surprised it got any traction on netflix, it is just really boring, no amazing actors play, just common life filmed in really dragging manner, i can only assume to demonstrate some drama, because i saw none, only “oh no the phones, the social networks, oh no the schools, oh no the parents, oh no that’s why I killed, you see what you made me do” :joy:

They were working class.

Yes it is called middle class, subset of it, we can go into different theories of societal classes, even that would be more interesting, but people with a house/car in my mind are middle class. If they were living in some social housing, a boy roughed up in a ghetto, then going onto some revenge sprie, and then message will be “our society became a ghetto with killings every day and we are all doomed” that would explain something. But this…gives a vibe of "we have everything, we don’t know what else to do, let’s invent what will be the problem, because people cannot live without them, so in well developed countries the problem will be ‘he called me bad on a phone, my parents are mean, i have nothing else to do, here is the result’ and let’s make a movie about that and squeeze a cry how terrible :rofl:

It is not just about being able to afford a house (and you don’t know that they own it). It’s also about the job (a plumber is a working class job), middle class is more jobs such as a Laywer, Teacher, Doctor etc. And also to do with behaviour, ie middle class people would not stand in the garden insulting and hurling abuse at the neighbours across the street. Also about education, those kids were in a rough school in a rough deprived area.

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I think it depends on where you come from / your culture. Working class people in the UK with their own home, car, telly, whatever, would be classed as “middle class” in other parts of the world, such as the US. Also blue and white collar workers.

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Fair enough.

They are a British working class family. :upside_down_face:

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I couldn’t help but notice that Netflix seemingly decided to drop the DEI casting for this particular series.

It’s irrelevant to which socio-economic group the family belongs. The point is that this story could happen to any family. It’s also irrelevant what kind of school the child went to or how rough the neighbourhood is. It could happen to children who go to private school.

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Well bless your life if what is pictured is a “rough school”, to me it looked as some nice private school, and actually nice teachers and children are ok.

For someone who was bored enough to sleep through it, you are sure the top poster in this thread. :laughing:

I honestly didn’t get the point of this serie, “this story can happen to any family”, ehmm no, unless you are born a psychopath, explaining that this can happen “because of phones and networks, schools, lack of parents attention” ehmm no again, unless again a psychopath, which they lock every day

Yeah i am venting my frustration of not understanding wtf is this and why did i watch it :sleepy: