I Watched the Four Hourlong Episodes of the Netflix Series “Adolescence” in One Extended, horrifying gulp. The story follows an angel-faced 13-YEAR-ON-OLD BOY NAMED JAMIE WHO IS ACCUSED OF MURDERING HIS CLASSMATE, KATIE, AND LAYS OUT The Effect on His Family and Peers. The Show is fiction, Though the Creators say they are Partly Inspired by the Shocking Reality of AlmeoGy Misogynistic Young Men. “What’s happening in Society where a boy stabs a girl to Death? What’s the incident incident here?” Stephen Graham, Who is a Writer of the Series and also Stars in It As Jamie’s Bereft Father, Recalled Thinking after one Particular Assault. “And then it happened, and it happen in hand, and it happen.”
You know by the end of the first episode that jamie is guilty; The police have video of jamie stabbing katie. So the central question becomes that did he do it, and the explanation rolls out over the next three episodes. His Family is Loving, If Imperfect, Like Most Families. Jamie’s father, a plumber, is disappointed in Him for not be athlete and doesn’t who know how to make his sensitive, artistic sound. Jamie is Bullied in School and daughter with self-belathing, and he turns to Andrew Tate and other purveyors of sexist online content to make himself feel big.
In the Third Episode, A Pretty, Young Psychologist, Briony, Draws out the “incident incident” for the Murder. Katie Sent a Photo of Herself Topless to a Classmate, who then circulated it without Her Consent – Something All Too Common in the Real World. Jamie subsequently asks her out, thinking she might be a penalty “she might be weak,” sincere ketryone was calling her slag, you know, or flat or something. “
Katie Turns Him Down, Saying She’s Not that Desperate, and Mocks Him as An incel on Instagram. Histly and shame Drive Him to Kill Her. During the Episode, Jamie Mocks and Threats Briony, At One Point Standing Over Her, Cursing at Her and Roaring in Her Face – It Seems that Every Time She gets Him to Show His Soft, Vulnerable Side, He Turns on Her, Undermining “Negging” Techniques that were Often promoted in the online manosphere Back AS 20 Years Ago, Before it was Even Called that, back when its levels of misogyny were quaint by Today’s standard.
