On Netflix.

Honestly one of the finest shows of the decade ... and i know this is a huge call.

Four part series, each shot in one continuous take ... which adds magnitudes to both the gravitas and the performances ... which are exemplary.

Warning though, this will rip your heart out. I found this really hard to watch.for reasons that will be made clear to you should you brave it. But if you want excellence and a real and very important talking point, Adolescence is one to watch.

Just to add, Stephan Graham is one again just draw dropping but the kid they got to play Jaime ... just wow. First thing he's ever done and he was breathtaking.

This is a piece of art, not just creatively but for the sheer weight of emotion and thought it provokes.

In a move that’s definitely not dystopian, Keir Starmer has announced Labour’s new education policy: "fiction is now mandatory, truth is conditional, and moral outrage is allocated based on the victim’s ethnicity, gender, and sexual proclivities. "
At the centre of this re-education experiment is Adolescence, a Netflix drama now being rolled out in schools. It claims to be “based on a true story”—in the same way EastEnders is based on real London life. In truth, a young girl was murdered. In the show, the black killer has been quietly race-swapped into a white, working-class boy radicalised by podcasts and a lack of youth club access.
Primary children will now be required to chant "transwomen are women" at assembly. Once a great place to start the day with "Shine Jesus Shine" or  other old skool Christian assembly bangers,  Christianity has now been declared a "gateway to the Far Right", and any child caught promoting outdated ideology like, "Peace, Tolerance and Forgiveness", will be immediately excluded under the new scheme.
Instead, children of junior age will take part in workshops where they apologise for their skin tone while crocheting Pro Hamas slogans into doilies. The PSHE syllabus will include a ceremonial apology for the British Empire with a performance of Toxic Masculinity: The Musical, funded by the Department for Equalities and Interpretive Dance.
To help ease NHS spending on contraception and abortion, Bonnie Blue and Lily Phillips will now lead nationwide anal sex workshops, teaching schoolgirls how to avoid pregnancy while staying culturally open-minded. The pilot scheme—Back Door to Empowerment—has been described as “inclusive, lubricated, and uncomfortably funded.” And, in a special school assembly next week, Bonnie Blue will demonstrate how British girls can reframe their gangrape as "cultural hospitality"—a progressive act of openness, bravery, and surrender to imported values.
Meanwhile, Labour continues to obsess over misogyny in white working-class boys, while just days ago they celebrated Eid by praising the Ottoman Empire—a regime best known for child slaves, sexual harems, and flaying people alive for apostasy.
Diane Abbott added, “It’s vital we teach white working-class boys not to grope women, while simultaneously respecting cultures where it’s illegal to show a woman’s elbow.”
Recognising that made up stories on TV are more valuable than actual facts, other exciting reforms include a complete overhaul of professional training, replacing education with entertainment:
Barristers will no longer study law, but instead watch Rumpole of the Bailey in combination with Jim’ll Fix It, before sitting an oral exam titled When Banter Becomes Evidence.
Police officers will be trained watching The Bill, specialising in community cohesion, progressive tasering, and apologising for stop and search in three languages.
The prison service will be trained entirely from watching Prisoner: Cell Block H, with coursework on inclusive strip searches, hormone logistics, and gender-neutral riot suppression.
Medical students will now qualify by diagnosing fictional conditions from Casualty, followed by a Grey’s Anatomy quiz on who cried hardest during surgery.
New farmers will be trained via The Archers, focusing on rural conflict resolution, organic cow consent, and how to build a polytunnel during a panic attack.
MI5 recruits will be selected using escape rooms themed on Spooks, James Bond and The Night Manager.
Aspiring teachers must binge-watch Waterloo Road, learn how to spot unconscious bias in a lunchbox, and pass an exam on glue-sniffing prevention based entirely on the lyrics to “Just Say No”.
And above it all looms Adolescence—a state-mandated hallucination where children learn that truth is racist, fiction is sacred, and everything can be healed with guilt and a musical number.

Frank wrote on Apr 8^th, 2025 at 9:37am:

Frank wrote on Apr 8^th, 2025 at 10:03am:


It's a fictional TV show, Frannie.

You don't really think Superman can fly, do you?

Frank wrote on Apr 8^th, 2025 at 10:11am:



Which bit is wacist?  Which part of speech are you policing here?




Despite making up only 13% of London’s total population, black Londoners account for 45% of London’s knife murder victims, 61% of knife murder perpetrators and 53% of knife crime perpetrators.
https://www.london.gov.uk/press-releases/assembly/commission-on-knife-crime-in-b...




It is a lying, deliberate distortion like a black Anne Boleyn or Macbeth. It is a cover-up.  Imagine the same 4 part series depicting a murderous black teenager from a dysfunctional background. It would have been honest and real, not a deliberate lie.

Is Adolescence based on a true story?

While Jamie’s story, specifically, isn’t based on a real person or event, the idea for the series did spring from reports that co-creator Graham had heard about on the news, of young boys being involved in knife crimes.

“There was an incident where a young boy [allegedly] stabbed a girl,” Graham tells Tudum. “It shocked me. I was thinking, ‘What’s going on? What’s happening in society where a boy stabs a girl to death? What’s the inciting incident here?’ And then it happened again, and it happened again, and it happened again. I really just wanted to shine a light on it, and ask, ‘Why is this happening today? What’s going on? How have we come to this?’ ”

Thorne adds that, as the process went on, he, Graham, and Barantini grew fascinated by the question of male rage and started thinking about themselves as men, fathers, partners, and friends, and “questioning with some intensity” who they were as people, and particularly as men. “That is a journey I’ve never gone on as a writer before, and it scared me and excited me because it felt like we had something to say,” says Thorne.


https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/adolescence-cast-release-date-photos-news

mothra wrote on Apr 8^th, 2025 at 12:39pm:



Co-creator Stephen Graham has said that one of the real-life incidents that inspired Adolescence was a ‘young girl in south London who was stabbed to death at a bus stop’ – a reference to the 2023 murder of Elianne Andam by Hassan Sentamu in Croydon.

Everyone knows that this had nothing to do with the manosphere, and that the backgrounds of the perpetrator and victim were very different from the characters in Adolescence.

The actual case was a black teenager murdering another black teenager at a bus stop.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckg8ly1wr8ro

Such knife crime is overwhelmingly black crime in London, according to the London Mayor's office.