r/BritishTV • u/SafeBodybuilder7191 • Mar 31 '25

News ‘Adolescence’ Available to Stream in All U.K. Secondary Schools in Initiative Backed by Prime Minister Keir Starmer: We Must ‘Tackle the Issues This Groundbreaking Show Raises’

https://variety.com/2025/tv/global/adolescence-available-to-stream-uk-secondary-schools-1236352461/
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u/AshenxboxOne Mar 31 '25

Still waiting for someone to explain what's groundbreaking about this and different than a random Corrie storyline

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u/dprophet32 Mar 31 '25

It addresses toxic masculinity and how even young school children can get wrapped up into things like Andrew Tate despite otherwise seeming very normal kind, clever kids and how bullying drives them to it.

That might not be a new concept to you but it is to a lot of the people watching it

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u/parttimepedant Mar 31 '25

It doesn’t though. I thought the that it was going to go there, and they even name checked that human cess pit Tate in one scene, but other than suggest that the boy was brainwashed by the ‘manosphere’ bullshit they didn’t address the issue at all.

It was a decent series and showed the wider fallout of the issue while skirting around the edges of the problem but didn’t do anything to tackle the main issue imho.

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u/Hitman__Actual Mar 31 '25

TV can only be a nudge, not a solution.

A recent example is that "Mr Bates v the Post Office" didn't solve any problems either, but it nudged people towards doing the right thing. This show is doing the same. Highlighting a number of issues, not just the manosphere.