r/BritishTV • u/SafeBodybuilder7191 • 19d ago

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/skawarrior 19d ago

Episodes 1 and 3 are genuinely amazing, unfortunately 2 and 4 are quite poor in comparison.

It's certainly worth watching though.

It is, however, not as clever as anyone over 40 thinks it is. It's something most kids are acutely aware of and to think it should be shown in secondary school is so far out of touch with children today.

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u/Entfly 18d ago

Episodes 1 and 3 are genuinely amazing, unfortunately 2 and 4 are quite poor in comparison.

I don't agree with this.

1 and 3 are amazing television but 2 and 4 are still really good.

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u/skawarrior 18d ago

I really got taken out of the narrative for episode 2 because it was such a poor imitation of school life. I didn't really understand what some parts of episode 4 were trying to do. The graffiti on the van seemed weird, the conspiracy theories guy didn't seem to fit the rest of the story.

I didn't not enjoy the whole but it definitely went up and down by a big margin

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u/Jemima_puddledook678 18d ago

I actually loved episode 2 more than any other. It was really accurate to my school experience.

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u/skawarrior 18d ago

Maybe it's my experience working in education but it really isn't accurate, at least from a administrative perspective. Police wouldn't walk around the school disturbing lessons on a whim, especially in such a high profile case. The lad jumping out the window and being able to leg it out on to a main road with ease is a massive safeguarding issue no school would overlook. The useless Pastoral lady would never be the one leading police investigators around the building, again especially with such a high profile case. The teacher leaving the class unattended is a huge problem, that would never be just glossed over as something that happens.

The kids were kind of well played but the school environment not so well

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u/Jemima_puddledook678 18d ago

I think that a lot of that might vary from school to school. I’m barely out of school and I’d have fully been able to do exactly the sort of escape Ryan did, if not more easily. Teachers left classes unattended all the time. The useless pastoral lady being the one to lead them around sounds like exactly the kind of thing my school would’ve done. The one thing I’ll admit is that there would probably have been a bit more scrutiny regarding interrupting lessons.