Adolescence

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What an amazing piece of television. Stephen Graham is exceptional. Highly recommend this - on Netflix.

Brilliant… can’t stop thinking about it .
Did a great job of exposing male rage stoked by incels via social media in bedrooms, where we think our children are safe.

It's an uncomfortable watch. It felt quite bleak overall.

I thought it was very well done. Hadn’t really considered all that the families of murders etc go through. Final scene was so sad.

I thought it was mediocre. School life very unrealistic. Bored by episodes 3 and 4 and the lack of action. Not enough actually about the incel aspect. I thought it lacked sensitivity or interest.

I thought the casting of Jade was intentional? making the point of the "adultification" of young black women?

As a teacher who has worked in many different schools I was disappointed in the portrayal of the teachers and the school's response, its was the only false note for me

The whole show was incredible, i loved it - wonderful acting and brave writing, no easy answers and lots of room for thought and discussion.

I loved the episode with the psych.

The ending was lacking for me.

I only got to halfway through episode 2 , the depiction of the school as some lawless pit of chaos and ineptitude was too OTT for me. I couldn’t get past that they were all acting/ overacting and I didn’t feel any emotional connection with any of them.
I appreciate it was a feat in terms of the one take thing but I couldn’t get invested and thought it was a bit flat.

All the one shot walking down corridors made me feel sea sick!

But Stephen Graham can do no wrong in my eyes, Owen Cooper / Erin Doherty were good

I did think there were some poor areas / acting: the school scenes / Ms Fenumore / Jade
As others have said there is no way the police would go around the school like that and by that character!

I thought the same. Dh got bored and gave up but I watched it all. Episode two bored me rigid with all the walking along school corridors.

I think Owen Cooper (Jamie), Ashley Walters (DI Bascombe) and Erin Doherty (Briony) delivered the better performances, while the actress who played Jade didn't seem convincing at all.

I really like Stephen Graham but I also felt there was something off about his acting in this. I felt it as soon as his character was introduced, where he didn't seem scared/freaked out enough by the police break-in. Or it didn't seem natural to me.

The single shots were brilliant and I loved them. Very impressive and I kept wondering how they timed it all.

I know that the theme was the king of the show but it still irritated me why the police did not question why Jade attacked the other boy ( at this point I was probably still hoping it hadn't been Jamie). At the time I also thought that the contrast between quiet Jamie and angry Jamie in episode 3 was just too ramped up.

I guess that’s the point . Life is mediocre and we begin to look for meaning in it … young males turning to the online world and being drawn to misogyny and insidiously being drawn into the incel world … it happens slowly hence . Parents not questioning what their young people are looking at … accepting the unacceptable because it’s become mainstream ( when the dad casually says that all young people are looking at porn )

I thought episode 3 was fascinating, the psychologist reflecting back to Jamie where his influences come from leading to his male rage … removing the facade that a baby faced young child is not capable of such rage .

as for the school , it was realistic the constant low level disruption , a senior leader who didn’t want to address it … you only have to look at the thread the other week about what is so bad about teaching and parents being number one theme emerging… this is what it looks like in the classroom… parents backing up their children and thinking their child is incapable od disruption, violence , bullying, misogyny etc.

If that’s what schools are like then I totally get why so many parents are obsessed with private and faith schools.

My thoughts exactly 😭 please posters give me some hope that not all state schools are like this cos I can't afford private and mine is about to go to secondary ...

Are faith schools better?

Fantastic series with a very important message. After watching episode 3 the young man deserves a bafta, amazing acting.

Absolutely stupendous and very difficult watch at the same time. I thought the psychologist, the young lad but particularly Stephen Graham were exceptional. The dialogue was incredible, the family in the van was absolutely perfect.

Stephen’s face told the story when it was too sensitive to show on camera, it was incredible. Really powerful.

My only flaw is that I think they have the characterisation for the young boy wrong. No spoilers but his character didn’t fully work for me.

I thought there were a quite a few plot holes, a lot wasn't explained.

I'm not from the UK and I know it's a me problem, but I lost focus quite a bit of the time as I just cannot understand a lot of what Stephen Graham was saying. His accent is very strong 😂

I've just finished it and was underwhelmed. I find Stephen Graham plays every character the same, he's very good at crying though.
Episodes 1 and 3 were the best.

We binged it today because seen so much about it. I didn't actually really enjoy it and found it pretty boring.

Also found some of it daft, the policeman chases the boy and the woman walks up having not been there and knows he's being arrested for attempted murder not having heard any of the convo about him supplying the knife. The police in the school didn't seem realistic the way it was conducted. The girls who beat up the boy still being there at the end of the day when she'd beat someone up. The non addressing of the policemans son being bullied etc, why even bring it in to it.

Totally agree, character didn't work at all for me.

I thought it was brilliant, really compelling viewing. But incredibly bleak and it’s got me questioning how I bring my young sons up in such a shitty world.

It was shot beautifully, the lighting changes in episode three were really cleverly done. I’m in full admiration of the production team behind it.

I also agree that there were definitely plot holes and I would have loved to go deeper into Jamie’s story, understand Katie more and find out about his other two friends involvement. I can suspend disbelief though when the message is so hard hitting.

It's more like a play but on screen.

Episode 2 did drag a bit but episode 4 was outstanding - all the things that are said but unsaid in a family going through rough times. Tremendous drama

I enjoyed it but my god the car scene was the most boring 5 minutes I have ever seen.

It also was frustrating that a lot of topics weren’t covered in depth. It shone a light on incels but I wanted more. His two friends and their involvement. I would have liked more episodes, particularly on the victim/ her family.