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My daughter is watching a tv show about cannibals!!

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ClaireJohnson1981 · 19/12/2023 11:16

My lovely 15 year old loves to watch tv shows on her phone and I recently found out that shes watching a show about cannibals! (Its called Yellowjackets) I think that this is entirely inapprotiate for her age but she doesnt seem to agree. She said that im being horrible but I think im in the right. What do you think?

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TheShellBeach · 19/12/2023 11:26

MackEndSea · 19/12/2023 11:21

If only there was a way you could look up things like this on a world wide, readily available database

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Precipice · 19/12/2023 11:26

ClaireJohnson1981 · 19/12/2023 11:22

Thank you for telling me! I just worry that shes looking at murders and the like because I don’t really know much about the internet

How fortunate you are to have missed the craze for Sherlock a decade ago...

More seriously, OP, deaths (and murders) in fiction are common. They come up in most detective fiction. They're also a feature in works commonly read in school, where students frequently encounter such killing-featuring plays as Hamlet, Macbeth, or Romeo and Juliet.

SadKenny · 19/12/2023 11:27

It's basically Lord of the Flies but with girls.

It's not a show about cannibals.

PhulNana · 19/12/2023 11:30

Isn't the plot based on a true story? A soccer team in South America and the plane crashed in the Andes? In the 1970s or 1980s?

My parents gave me a book in which cannibals featured, called 'The Coral Island' by RM Ballantyne, and I was only 10! I haven't shown any signs of wanting to tuck into the neighbours, at least not so far.

Original poster
ClaireJohnson1981 · 19/12/2023 11:30

Sorry all! Im not very good at this internet malarkey

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bookworm14 · 19/12/2023 11:31

Nice try OP.

You can tell the school holidays have started, can’t you…

PostmansKnock · 19/12/2023 11:31

ClaireJohnson1981 · 19/12/2023 11:24

Thank you! It’s just so difficult to make sure that they are watching appropriate content these days! 😂

Just use Common Sense Media.

Catza · 19/12/2023 11:32

By the age of 15 I would have read a whole library of classics which featured murders. Crime and Punishment was part of my school curriculum. I also watched Seven, Resurrection and Alive (which is a film about Uruguayan plane crash featuring cannibalism). None of these turned me into a murdered, cannibal or scarred me for life in any way.
15 is plenty old for this sort of content.
The only thing I found deeply disturbing is the 70s Exorcist. Watched is an adult, though.

Butchyrestingface · 19/12/2023 11:50

I thought this was going to be about the movie Alive, with Ethan Hawke. Xmas Grin

Good Christmas movie, lots of snow.

Cas112 · 19/12/2023 12:00

PhulNana · 19/12/2023 11:23

Please OP, get a bloody grip!

THIS

PhulNana · 19/12/2023 12:01

Catza · 19/12/2023 11:32

By the age of 15 I would have read a whole library of classics which featured murders. Crime and Punishment was part of my school curriculum. I also watched Seven, Resurrection and Alive (which is a film about Uruguayan plane crash featuring cannibalism). None of these turned me into a murdered, cannibal or scarred me for life in any way.
15 is plenty old for this sort of content.
The only thing I found deeply disturbing is the 70s Exorcist. Watched is an adult, though.

OH God! I saw a dramatisation of Great Expectations by Charles Dickens when I was 8, which my parents insisted was 'educational'. I vividly recall the bit where Magwitch tells Pip 'I'll cut yer liver aht'. What's wrong with people nowadays?

Luckyduc · 19/12/2023 12:01

She's 15! Not 5.

I did school essays on all this stuff and head transplants and death row when I was 13, 14 years old. We all know about it. I was always a curious kid after watching a film about people who had to eat humans to survive a plane crash. I used to play tomb raider at 13 which had cannibalism....you need to lighten up.

kimchio · 19/12/2023 12:02

Maybe watch it with her?

Ducksinthebath · 19/12/2023 12:02

ClaireJohnson1981 · 19/12/2023 11:30

Sorry all! Im not very good at this internet malarkey

Good enough to find your way to Mumsnet and tell people off though. 🙄

LoveTheDarts · 19/12/2023 12:11

ClaireJohnson1981 · 19/12/2023 11:30

Sorry all! Im not very good at this internet malarkey

But you can join and post on Mumsnet?

My daughter is watching a tv show about cannibals!!
SprinkleTheMunchiesDust · 19/12/2023 12:14

ClaireJohnson1981 · 19/12/2023 11:30

Sorry all! Im not very good at this internet malarkey

Are you the person that just smashes your keyboard with your tits and hopes for the best?

There’s an old thread around somewhere here that could help you.

MumOfOneAwesomeHuman · 19/12/2023 12:18

It's a great show. Great story, great actors, really gripping. I watched it with my DD when it came out (she was 15). Entirely suitable. No cannibalism.
If you're worried about what your dd watches why don't you watch with her? My dd and I watch dramas and films together all the time and it's a great way to spend time together, debate the issues that arise and sometimes broach difficult subjects to make sure she has good guidance if the same issues come up in real life. I'm pretty sure she won't be tempted to eat her friends! Wink

NotInTheMoodForIt · 19/12/2023 12:21

If your username is your actual name and actual date of birth you might wanna change that.

KrisAkabusi · 19/12/2023 12:22

ClaireJohnson1981 · 19/12/2023 11:30

Sorry all! Im not very good at this internet malarkey

It has fuck all to do with the internet. It's a TV programme. If you want to know what it's about, watch it!

ManateeFair · 19/12/2023 12:25

I think by the time teenagers get to 15 it's probably pretty irrelevant what you consider appropriate for them to watch. You're not going to have much/any control over it and they can probably cope with exactly the same content as an 18 year old can cope with anyway.

As others have said, though, Yellowjackets isn't inappropriate for her age and isn't about cannibals.

Ponderingwindow · 19/12/2023 12:26

She is 15. Watch the show yourself. It is an amazing show that uses a plane crash to explore the interpersonal dynamics and psyches of a group of teenage women and then follows them into middle-age. it is a female focused show. It shows women at their best and their worst. It shows us as real people. It is absolutely beautiful.

yes, it is creepy and weird, but absolutely appropriate for a 15 yo.

MackEndSea · 19/12/2023 12:36

SprinkleTheMunchiesDust · 19/12/2023 12:14

Are you the person that just smashes your keyboard with your tits and hopes for the best?

There’s an old thread around somewhere here that could help you.

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Missingmyusername · 19/12/2023 12:39

I think it’s fine. Lord of the flies scarred me for life and we read that in school!

Echobelly · 19/12/2023 12:41

Plenty of teens are watching it, I think it's been pretty critically acclaimed and it's more about psychological horror and not about graphic depictions of violence AFAIK.

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