Massive overreaction to a TV show

I'm absolutely astonished at your naivety.

Well, you might not think it's relevant to you but it's all over the news so it's certainly relevant to many other people in society right now whether you recognise it or not.

If you have only sons, perhaps you have the privilege of not having to think about this stuff or worry about it. For parents of daughters, or females, it is always relevant.

I was planning to watch it, it’s on my watch list but TBH I think it’s been too overhyped and I CBA. The total meltdowns people are having that their sons will be murderers is ridiculous. Fucking restrict smartphone use, raise them with respect and kindness and show them you value honesty.

Would be a terribly boring TV show if they just filmed the life of a normal 13yo who games on an evening and eats enough toast to feed a small army.

How anyone can be a parent or teacher and think that Adolescence is irrelevant absolutely blows my mind tbh.

Which bits didn’t you understand?

The show wasn’t supposed to be for entertainment, so I’m unsure why someone would find it “boring”. It was suppose to portray a real-time slow paced realistic “everyday life” of what happens to the people affected after a catastrophic event.

Congratulations?

@Kilroyonly did you like gamesmaster back in the day ?

What sort of school do they go to?
I'm quite surprised your 12 yo wasn't quite strongly affected, it was quite hard hitting.

We get it. You are very cool. Reminds me of when I was at school and some people had to vocally dislike everything that was popular to try and stand out.

It wasn't for you, lots of things aren't for me, but I don't have to tell everyone.

If you don't think the issues raised in the show are relevant then you are deluding yourself. It just makes you sound ignorant.

>"why does everyone keep saying it’s about toxic masculinity but you wouldn’t know unless you read a review of it?"

Bang on. It's a great series and TV watch, but the incel spin seems like a last minute addition to gain publicity with a few hints that isn't well conveyed in the story.

It would resonate much more genuinely and generally if it represented how misplaced teen boys feel in the world, how weapon availability is an issue and the fatal consequences (for boys and girls, factually more often for boys than girls). Yes the internet play a bigger part in every part of life these days but "young man kills someone because of being rejected sexually by someone else" is a story going on for centuries.

Are there human beings in your world? Yes? Then it’s relevant. You say it’s not relevant to your children. Another poster said ‘it’s not relevant until it is’ which is horribly accurate. Do they have friends? You have neighbours? Relatives? People living in your road, town, village? If something like that happened in your world you would be very much affected by it, like it or not.

If you don’t like it, just say ‘I don’t like crime drama’ but don’t say it’s not relevant.

Oh come off it.
Are you actually not aware of the issues surrounding teenagers having smart phones and social media? Bullying, access to inappropriate/illegal content, photos being shared w/o consent to name just a few.

It might not be relevant to you and your children, but to be astonished it's even remotely relevant to anyone smacks of ignorance.

And now do you know it's not relevant to your children? You haven't said how old they are. At least high school age to be old enough to watch the drama (it's a 15 I believe) and younger than full grown independent adults? If you are confident none of the issues are relevant to them then you must at least have had conversations about safe internet use. Or do they not have phones or access to the internet at all?

I watched it with my 16 yo son and we had a good talk about what goes on in his school and within his friendship group.

but don’t feel it was in any way relevant to my life nor my children

That’s quite sad OP. I mean, It’s perfectly fine to have your opinions on the show -however I’m not sure why you’ve posted this thread. Are you wanting people to agree with you?

The epidemic of male violence against women, rise in incel culture, knife crime amongst minors, the badly managed and poorly funded academy state schools (just to name a few) are points that were portrayed so brilliantly and realistically that the general public of the UK need to realise. We need to make changes.

I don’t know what your daily life consists of. I don’t know what type of school your children go to. I don’t know what your children’s friends are like and I don’t know what type of stuff your children are accessing on the internet BUT …. I generally think you need to realise that even though the topics in Adolescence don’t resonate with you, they will for the majority of ordinary working/middle class families and that is a scary thing.

Haha, yes I get that not everyone watches everything, and might not be interested, but this show has been very heavily promoted and there are articles and comments on it in just about every media source.

I'm also surprised that you don't know anything about Andrew Tate - again, he is in the news a lot.

100% this

No, but mainly in the physics department, which hasn't changed that much in 40 years since I was a pupil there and the 40 before that! 😀

My point is just that TV shows, internet stuff etc, not everyone watches it, not everyone finds it relevant to watch, even if the subject matter may be relevant.

Have you been living under a rock?

I mean, I watched Blue Planet and I didn’t feel it was irrelevant just because I’m not a dolphin….

To be fair inset is a time to crack on with lesson planning and pondering experiments, what's for lunch etc. - there are many things that are a danger to children, and adults too for that matter, the world, is and always has been, somewhat dangerous to those creatures, us included, that inhabit it - I teach physics, so long as they make it out of the lab in one piece and with more scientific knowledge than they came in with, my work is done!

Of course your kids are going to say that. How much scrutiny of their Internet access to you have?

This.

And do you understand everything they look at on line. The nuances.

Years ago when my children were this sort of age we had one computer, it lived downstairs in public.

Their bedrooms were a haven, Harry Potter, starters figures but a haven.

Now many children take the world to bed with them - their mobiles.

Parents can take broadly one of 2 approaches

-no mobiles, no social media. Problem solved - except it isn't because their friends, acquaintances and enemies will be on it.

allow mobiles but under some degree of supervision and teaching them how to navigate a world with social media. Give them the tools, resilience.

@YourAzureEagle If you are a teacher you should be aware of Andrew Tate and his ilk as he is a danger to children. Have you not had INSET on online dangers?

I left the UK over 20 years ago. I found it had no relevance to me, even when my kids were in school.
However, by the reactions of friends in the UK I can see it is extremely relevant to a lot of them and I find that extremely sad and worrying.