US EditionNetflix's Adolescence prompts important conversations around social media, cultural issues
- Netflix released the four-part crime drama Adolescence in March 2024, centering on 13-year-old Jamie Miller accused of murdering a classmate in the UK.
- The series was inspired by rising violence against women and online radicalization, including incel culture and misogynistic digital influences that affect teens today.
- Adolescence has sparked widespread discussion, led to UK schools sharing lists of teen online slang for safeguarding, and prompted a deal for free streaming in schools.
- More than 120 million people have viewed the show, with critics and experts praising it as a powerful conversation starter with a message about social media's risks to youth.
- The drama's impact emphasizes the need for parental involvement, school partnerships, and skilled facilitation of difficult topics like emotional struggles and online harm among adolescents.
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A petition that requires the diffusion of "Adolescence" in the French colleges has already collected thousands of signatures. Yet, the series-phenomena mainly speaks to adults, their parents' torments, their confused relationship to images. / Fiction, Cinema, Youth - (...) / Fiction, Cinema, Youth
One day your son asks you about the law of “only is yes” and shares the chascarrillo that he is going to need a contract to bind. “In other places women suffer a lot, but in Spain tell me what you are discriminated on,” says the one who has not missed an 8M until 13 years. There it is, the ‘net flag’ of postmachismo I have not seen Adolescence - the arch-famous Netflix series- because I feel that I can’t. Because what happened to those parents i…
The misunderstood or unheard words of children and the stumbling blocks of those who must evaluate them constitute, in my opinion, the backbone of the television series Adolescence, in whose plot we can find clinical cues useful for commenting on news events, even dramatic ones, that have as their object the examination of the child's will. The intense exchange between psychologist Ariston and Jamie in the third episode gives me the right to thi…
Sydney Morning Herald
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