Starmer backs campaign to show Adolescence in schools

Was Netflix’s Adolescence based on a true story?

Some, including Kemi Badenoch, have suggested the series was based on a real-life crime committed by a boy who wasn’t white—but the show’s co-creators say it wasn’t based on any single case.

In Defence of Adolescence: A Deeply Subversive Satire of Post-Liberal Britain – The Daily Sceptic

Michael Rainsborough watched Adolescence expecting to see stale, regime propaganda. In fact, he thinks it's a deeply subversive, vituperative satire of post-liberal Britain. The post In Defence of Adolescence: A Deeply Subversive Satire of Post-Liberal Britain appeared first on The Daily Sceptic.

ITV and BBC could not afford to make Adolescence, Wolf Hall director says

The four-part limited series, made in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, has received backing from the Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer.

Adolescence Writer Says Role Models Aren’t Enough: ‘We've Got To Change The Culture’

Adolescence writer Jack Thorne feels the government needs to take stronger action to tackle the issues raised by the show.

Why is Netflix obsessed with the villainy of young white men? I have a hunch - Colin Brazier

On an Autumn evening in 1983 the great American president Ronald Reagan sat down in front of his White House TV. What followed was, without question, the most consequential binge-watch in human history.Reagan, along with 100m fellow Americans, saw an ABC drama called The Day After, a fictional depiction of how the US would cope with a nuclear attack. Reagan’s biographer said the film had an electrifying effect. So believable did the former actor…