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British mini-series about a 13-year-old boy who kills a classmate, discussed as deliberately avoiding typical murder-mystery tropes to explore structural issues over individual blame

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"The series is about a boy falling victim to bullying and social contagion and then killing someone. The bullying is because he was called an incel; the social contagion element is that he read dating advice and incel stuff online and became radicalized. This series will make every kid afraid of ince"
"The complete lack of depth the show has when discussing the topic of toxic masculinity in social media is absurd to the point of being offensive and ignorant. The deepest the show goes with it is the detective's kid literally just saying '80/20' and 'red pill' with zero clarification to explain to h"
"The British mini-series adolescence is making the rounds on Netflix. For the uninitiated, the tldr is 13 year old boy kills classmate who bullied him for being an incel. Who the killer is is never made the point. Instead it tries to look at the perpetrator - why would someone do this - and his famil"
"Strange the extent it's been picked up by the UK government but probably a good message at heart"
I thought Adolescence was quite good actually · u/OzzaFlood · ↑28 · 2025-03-28
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