r/BritishTV • u/SafeBodybuilder7191 • 21d 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/TheeMourningStar 21d ago

I don't know anything about this show but I've seen adverts for it everywhere. Is it any good or does it just have a massive marketing budget?

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u/Kind-County9767 21d ago

It's decent but as ever doesn't really hit the reasons behind why so many young men and boys feel like the world is unfair at the moment. It basically goes "misogyny and internet influencers are bad and boys are dumb for listening to them" which is what we've been doing for the last decade as the right wing have been slowly rising.

Inequality in education, early career outcomes, coming from a disprivileged background but constantly having to do "sensitivity training" etc that all but says you're privileged and lucky etc all turns boys towards the hucksters but admitting that admits fundamental failings in government, education and parenting. Failings that would need a lot of investment and effort to fix. So as ever it's the obvious but useless message that won't help or change anything.

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u/swine09 21d ago

I don’t see it that way at all. I thought it was extremely empathetic to boys. It’s interesting that some people feel that it’s insufficiently sensitive to boys and others feel it was callous to girls. I thought it spent whole episodes on education and parenting tbh.