Adolescence

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If you haven’t please watch it.

It was filmed where I live. The school used is where my dd goes and she and her friends were extras in the school episode. It was quite a moment seeing her on screen.

We sat through the entire four episodes back to back (something I never do). It was gripping, brilliant and terrifying. The boy who played Jamie was such a talent. I read that he’d never acted before! SG was fantastic as always. You’re right OP, everyone should watch this.

What's it about

I can't watch it. Too close to home for me with teenage DDs.

Excellent drama. Really enjoyed it. The lad who played Jamie was incredible. I hope he wins many an award!

It’s about a 13 year old boy (Jamie) who is accused of stabbing his class mate Katie to death. The series covers the period from his arrest, until just before the trail. I don’t want to say too much and spoil it but it covers the police investigation, Jamie’s sessions with a psychologist and the effects on his parents and sister. It highlights the ‘manosphere/Tate’ situation without going into loads of detail. Every parent of teens should watch it.

Eye opening drama, certainly taught me the meaning of some emojs the kids use,
One to watch if you have younger ones.

*trial.

All the more reason to if you ask me. It should be compulsory viewing for parents of pre teens and teens. If it makes them take more interest in their kids online lives that can only be a good thing.

FWIW I was thinking more about what happened to DD2 at school and I would find it triggering, as people say now. I did take an interest in her online life - online life was all they had during the pandemic as they were not allowed to see their friends very often for a time. Then they were forced to be online to complete their school work, even when they returned to school for homework, and no parent could monitor what they are doing all the time as we have our own work to do.

When DDs were small I couldn't watch anything that involved harm to young children. I still don't pay much attention to the news for similar reasons. I don't watch anything that I would find too upsetting. TV is for entertainment and escapism for me. I'm glad that this programme has been made but it's not for me, not at the moment anyway.

Honestly think every parent should be made to watch it, its a shame it's currently on a paid streaming service. It should also be shown in schools, the final episode and the impact it had had on his family was incredibly powerful, I sobbed at the last scene

The most telling line of all was them thinking he was safe "as he was in his room" - perhaps pre social media (which I think should be banned for under 16s) and pre Internet he would have been, but actually now they give him access to stuff that is even more dangerous than the outside world

Also needs to be more safeguarding training for the wider public, I've had a fair amount training as I'm in a school based role, didn't know half those terms/emojis the detectives son was explaining to him so despite having more training than a lot of people, i still have huge gaps

Yes, I can relate to that.

Equally, are the people that really need to watch this likely to do so. I heard a discussion about it on radio 4 this morning and thought it was highly unlikely the the average radio 4 listener would have a teen that thinks the manosphere is a cogent ideology! I

I approached it in completely the wrong way at first as I watch far too many police procedural dramas ie they’re trying to hunt down the killer. I thought Jamie was maybe trying to protect his mate who had really stabbed the girl. Of course as it unfolded it was so much worse. The kids were all portrayed as being so full of anger. Is that how it is these days? (I’m 60-odd and my sons left school years ago). Terrible what all this social media has caused

Oh wow, how many takes did it take? I watched the 2nd episode yesterday and thought all the school kids were great, how did they get them all not to look at the camera etc, it's so impressive

It was filmed over a week last August. They had a lot of rehearsals before filming.