Anyone watching Adolescence? Netflix' 'Adolescence' Show Examines Incel Culture

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[Bread and Circuses]

1. Yes, just did. It examines toxic masculinity's Impact on boys

The young boy and his friends were bullied by schoolmates .
They were labeled as ugly and had no friends.

These boys followed Andrew Tate and felt that because girls didn’t like them…..


Many boys and young men feel that they are entitled to have fawning females.

Anger turns to rage.

This isn’t really an examination into incel culture because they are children…who were bullied and resorted to violence.

IMO, incel culture speaks to young adult males who have many grievances, including wishing to dominate women.

[HoosierDebbie]

2. Tragic and painful

I found it tragic and painful, disturbing. Overwhelming and eye-opening. Besides the story. I loved the superb acting. All scenes filmed from beginning to end non-stop. I have been thinking about it for days. Excellent work.

[oasis]

5. Top notch acting.

[SharonClark]

3. I disagree that the show examines incel culture.

It’s a much softer approach than an “examination“. The kid appears to be a normal 12-year-old until he isn’t. The parents are shocked, but the police aren’t. It is more about how a family deals with a violent act by a child and less about the child’s motives.

[beaglelover]

6. It also asks the question did the parents and how he was raised somehow contribute to his actions.

I thought it was an excellent series. LOVED how each of the 4 episodes were filmed all in ONE shot. Just amazing.

If anyone's interested, there are behind the scenes shorts about how they prepared and eventually shot each episode. Each episode took 3 weeks. In the third week they basically shot the episode from start to finish with NO stops 2 times each day. And then they chose the one shot with the least amount of mistakes to use as the final take. For each episode they would tell which take that was. It was not always the second take on the 5th day. I just find it all very interesting.

Also, the young boy, this was his first real acting job and the first episode they shot was the 3rd one, which is his most difficult to act.

Also, the lady who played the psychologist in the 3rd episode played Princess Ann in the 2nd and 3rd seasons of The Crown. I knew I had seen her somewhere before.

Highly recommend this series. I predict quite a few Emmy wins in the fall for this one!

[Silver Gaia]

4. Yes. I watched it a few weeks ago and highly recommend it.

This wasn't written or directed by women, but by men, which I thought was interesting. The actor who plays the boy's father, Stephen Graham, was one of two men who wrote it.

The acting, including, maybe even especially, that of Owen Cooper who plays the boy, is superb. The directing and cinematography is innovative.

Each episode is filmed on ONE take, so there are no cuts. The camera moves seamlessly from one scene to another by various means. When you watch it pay attention to this. It is fascinating and I predict will be nominated for awards that will likely be won.

All of that is icing on a cake built of various aspects of modern culture that are affecting our youth, and yes, focuses on the harm being done to young men in particular and the intersection of that with violence against women and girls.

I tuned in out of curiosity because it had been in the Top 10 series on Netflix for quite some time and was surprised. It is a sensitive and compelling treatment of some dark and disturbing facets of modern society. Also refreshing is that it is set in Great Britain, being based on a composite of several similar cases there, and does not have anything to do with gun violence.

It has stayed with me and affected me deeply, both of which are, to me, indications of a story well told and a drama well composed.

WATCH THIS.

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7. I didn't like it.

To me it was a waste of time. I explained my reasoning in another thread here.

[betsuni]

8. Didn't get the point, wasn't about intel culture that I could see, so couldn't see that as the cause of the murder.

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The kid murderer was creepy and probably a sociopath anyway. Stabbing someone you don't even know very well seven times? Psycho killer stuff.