Adolescence - Netflix

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Anyone seen it?

As a mum with a young DS I’m finding it hard to watch without going into a worry spiral

I’m watching it now. It’s like a nightmare.

I’m still very much in the nursery/ primary school era, so have no experience or insight into teen years, but it’s difficult to imagine anything more horrific. I’m finding it hard to watch

@Whoknowswherethewindsblowim also in the nursery years. Im finding the new generations very difficult to understand and navigate. Trying my hardest not to fear the future too much whilst at the same time parent in a good/loving / disciplined way

A lot of negativity around the ending , but it was just so sad.

Yer just finished it, also have a teenager although slightly older, made me ask my ds a few questions.

I found some of episode four a bit slow, but that ending was haunting.

I've just finished e1, bit into e2. I'm hating how rude and disrespectful so many of the teens seen. I see/hear in rl same behaviour on a daily basis. I went to quite a rough state secondary and even the trouble makers were respectful of the teachers. I hate how things seem to have gone downhill.

It had a lot to say about social media and the breakdown of society in general. It really was thought provoking even if the final episode did seem to go off on a bit of a tangent at times.

As a secondary teacher I would say the school scenes are very extreme and it is absolutely nothing like where I work currently. When I was a trainee teacher I trained in a few rough areas and I didn’t witness anything like I saw on the program.

I enjoyed the first two episodes but I didn’t like the one long scene format and switched off by episode 3.

What kind of questions did you ask DS if you don’t mind me asking

I have no idea how to approach this topic in the future.

but think it’s so important to remain open with dc

I have a year 8 DS and I found it really harrowing. I watched it last night and asked him lots of questions today. The internet is bloody scary. I thought I had a handle on it but I wasn’t aware of some of the things highlighted. I thought the programme was excellent tv. Really well made and thought-provoking. The young actor was absolutely superb.

It was gut wrenching and so beautifully acted. Lots of layers to it and I found it quite spellbinding at times, especially the episode where Jamie was with the psychologist. You could see his anger and attitude to women slowly revealing itself. I think we were meant to look at his dad but all I could see was a loving hard worker who wanted to overcome his own upbringing and look after his family. I cried at the end. Massively powerful and thought provoking.

Thank you for sharing your experience. It’s reassuring to hear that.

Resonates with me when the mum says she thought he was safe, upstairs in his room ...

Dad, parent of two boys 14 & 12 here that I would say are pretty mature for their ages based on things we’ve watched together and conversations we’ve had. I’ve been hearing the hype about this show but know little about it. Just wondering thoughts on watching it WITH my boys, from those that have seen it?

Also interested in knowing thoughts on this

I loved it. Stephen Graham’s standard son-of-soil-in-anguish schtick works well here.

Wasn’t entirely convinced by the killer kid - I think you’d see more signs, even in retrospect. Most murderers work
their way up the violence scale - Axel
did.

They should have focused on the murdered girl’s family. That would be more interesting than ‘internet no good for kids’.

I live with 3 teens and know about 100 teens though them and their cousins. They go to pretty inner city schools and it isn't like that at all. They are all decent souls in the main.
There have always been dickheads and misogyny.

Agreed. Overwhelmingly you remember how nice most young’ uns are.

I loved the bit where the emoji code is explained - captures the intensity and intricacy of adolescence - as well as the absence of perspective.

The acting was superb, and I loved that each episode looked to be filmed in one take. The subject matter of toxic masculinity frightens me to death. I have a teen DD and an adult DS. I would definitely have shown my teen DS this.

I thought it was really good, very thought provoking and current.

Made me glad I've been pretty strict with dd, she wasn't allowed social media until she was 16! There's also no chance she'd have been wondering about in the evenings on her own ar that age.

I think it's good to watch with teenagers, it definitely sparks conversations.

I work on tackling violence against women and girls and sadly the age of perpetrators and victims is getting younger. There needs to be a whole schools approach the socialisation of girls vs boys also starts in the womb

I enjoyed it although for me I did feel the last episode dragged a bit.
i love Steven Graham and agree the boy was fantastic. I also have a bit of a crush on Ashley Walters lol (policeman) but he wasn’t in it long

I was watching it as he was wondering about, so I asked him about all the codes on Instagram and he was telling me and all the slang words they use. I explained what I was watching and said the 13 year old had been watching porn and seem to portray woman with bigger breast as his preference. My ds son said he'd watched porn but understood it was very fake, he also said he understood the men probably used viagra or similar. I think I should say ds is autistic so very honest, too honest. He's also thinks he's bisexual as he's attracted to both sexes but accepts you can be attracted without being bi. We carried on the conversation with his older siblings last night and they all agreed 13 is when most lads seem interested in sex but probably wouldn't use porn. I went though again how important protection is when doing anything sexual and more importantly how no means no and it's OK to cha ge your mind half way though, just be loud and clear. His older sisters than went onto inappropriate words and touching people can be inappropriate even if it's not meant to.

Haha that detective was hot 😂 my the end of ep 2 I had a massive crush on him.

Also thought it was thought provoking and very topical, although I didn’t like the single take style. I must admit my children’s school did rely too heavily for my liking on watching videos instead of proper lessons. I think it was very clever how the emojis represented that kids are speaking in a whole different language from their parents, and a massive theme of the programme was how difficult it is to keep lines of communication going, between parents and kids, between the public and police, and even between neighbours.