Ive seen a few threads on here about this show, but not many comments on the part that struck me and i wish they hadnt included.
I wish they hadnt put into the show that Katie was bullying him. Him being bullied on a wider scale by peers etc is fine for the story, Id hazard a guess that being bullied makes a young person more susceptible to these extremist views. But saying she was one of the bully's kind of justified a reaction from him - thoughobviously notto the extent it did. If they wanted the "manosphere", red pill, misogyny, incel, the andrew tate effect, to be the focus of how social media is negatively affecting young people, then the act of her rejecting him, something she was perfectly entitled to do, something innocent, was enough of a reason and i think it would have made the information on how distructive and dangerous the red pill effect is on young males even harder hitting. Making her into a bully just wasnt necessary.
If the whole premise of the show isnt for drama, its a though provoking piece to highlight the affect the internet and SM can have on a seeminly normal teenager from a relatively normal family, and the far-reaching affects of that influence, then showing how a simple rejection from a girl escalated, would have been much more thought provoking and harder hitting. I feel.