Adolescence - British TV Crime Drama Where 13 Year Old Schoolboy Murders Classmate

[Breadbassket]

It centers on a 13-year-old schoolboy named Jamie Miller who is arrested for the murder of a female classmate. Incels and Andrew Tate are both brought up.

Currently as of this time it is a show of much discussion in the United Kingdom. The left generally likes the program and the right has criticized it for making the killer a White Northern boy while recent misogynistic murders by schoolkids were perpetrated by young Black men like Axel Rudakubana and Hassan Sentamu. The creators want it aired in the Parliament and the show has received praise from Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

 

[Beautiful Border]

There's currently a moral panic in the UK over the idea that young boys are being brainwashed by social media to hate women. For some reason this doesn't seem to be as much of a thing people are concerned by in the US? But in any case, this is the tabloid's current fixation. British media has always done this whenever a new form of entertainment has come along. In the 80s the emergence of the home video market gave rise to handwringing over "video nasties". In the 2000s it was violent video games like GTA. Now it's social media and the evil sorcerer Andrew Tate and his supposed growing army of minions (for what it's worth, most teenage boys do not have a positive impression of Andrew Tate - if they've heard of him, they think he's a joke).

It's a show designed to scare pearl-clutchers and clueless parents into supporting more regulation of the Internet. The co-writer of the show openly suggests the solution is banning smartphones and social media for under-16s. How this is expected to be enforced is anyone's guess. As for my own thoughts, in a roundabout way I actually agree that smartphones and social media is bad for children: But the evidence suggests it's actually far more of a problem for teenage girls, not boys. The spike in gender dysphoria and identifying with various mental disorders among this demographic being a prime example.

 

[Tablet County]

Doesn't We Need to Talk About Kevin already exist?

 

[General Emílio Médici]

I am convinced that this show is being funded and shilled by British Glowniggers as a psyop to try and distract people from migrant crime and to strawman any backlash to the Blairite People's Republic of Bongstan. It has turned into a obcession for the British political class and the UK government is in fact going ahead with using the show as a prop to provide a "solution" to "youth knife crime" by implementing mandatory indoctrination educational classes to scan students for wrongthink misogyny.

Spoiler: Schools to give boys anti-misogyny lessons to stop toxic masculinity in wake of Netflix hit Adolescence

Schools are set to give students anti-misogyny lessons in the wake of hit Netflix TV show Adolescence about a teen boy who murders a female classmate.

The classes form part of the government's new relationships, health and sex education (RHSE) guidance, which will be introduced before the end of the academic year.

It comes after Sir Keir Starmer revealed at Prime Minister's Questions on Wednesday that he was watching the mini-series with his two teenagers - and that he backs the show creators' calls for it to be shown in parliament and schools.

The four-episode programme follows the Miller family, whose lives are torn apart when their 13-year-old son Jamie is arrested for stabbing a female classmate to death after being influenced by online misogyny.

The drama, released ten days ago, was the most-watched show on Netflix worldwide last weekend, gripping audiences with its sobering portrayal of how social media and misogynistic influencers can impact young boys.

Though Labour's classroom guidance is still being developed, it is understood to include content to 'support healthy relationships', to 'enable schools to tackle harmful behaviour and ensure that misogyny is stamped out and not allowed to proliferate', an insider source said, the Times reported.

From as early as primary school, children will be encouraged to 'express and understand boundaries, handle disappointment and pay attention to the needs and preferences of oneself and others', with content modified for older children to reflect the 'real-life complexities of romantic and sexual relationships', the source added.

The development comes as a win for the Netflix show's co-writers, Jack Thorne and actor Stephen Graham - who stars as the teen boy's father - who have said they wanted Adolescence to be a programme that 'causes discussion and makes change'.

The new guidance will encourage students to 'think about what healthy sexual relationships involve' - including 'consent', along with 'kindness, attention and care'.

As children progress to secondary school, classroom content will start to include the 'communication and ethics' needed for healthy romantic and sexual relationships.

Topics covered will range from dynamics of power and vulnerability, to tools to manage 'difficult emotions', like disappointment and anger, that can affect relationships.

The effects of misogynistic online content and pornography on both young people's sexual behaviour and their views of relationship norms will also be discussed.

Education secretary Bridget Phillipson has faced pressure to overturn RSHE guidance drafted by the previous Conservative government - which included bans on sex education for children under nine and discussions of gender identity.

Adolescence was praised last week by the parents of a survivor of the Southport stabbings for drawing attention to the 'terrifying' impacts of online misogynistic content on young men.

Axel Rudakubana, then 17, stabbed their daughter - known as Child A - more than 30 times during his brutal attack on a Taylor Swift-themed dance class in July last year. He killed three young girls - and was jailed for life in January.

The parents, in a statement read out by their MP during a debate on knife crime in the House of Commons on Thursday, said influencers like Andrew Tate are having a 'terrifying' impact on teen boys, who needed to be protected from this content.

Rudakubana cleared most of his online search history before the murders - so it is not known whether he viewed any content associated with Tate.

Triple murderer Kyle Clifford - who shot his ex-girlfriend Louise Hunt and her sister Hannah with a crossbow and stabbed their mother Carol - is known to have viewed Tate's videos before making his ferocious attacks.

Teachers were told in government guidance released last year to look out for signs of misogyny and 'incel culture' in students aged 14 and over, which could lead to sexual abuse, violence and suicide.

The education secretary warned teachers to watch out for teen boys who had been indoctrinated by 'manosphere' influencers into 'hating women'.

Last week, former England football manager Sir Gareth Southgate blasted 'callous, manipulative and toxic influencers' for leading young men towards misogyny.

At the BBC's annual Richard Dimbleby lecture, he said the 'sole drive' of these pernicious online creators is their 'own gain': 'They willingly trick young men into believing that success is measured by money or dominance, that strength means never showing emotion, and that the world, including women, is against them.'

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As mentioned already, they raceswapped the kid and also made him younger and babyfaced. They namedrop Andrew Tate (which the UK a-logs like crazy) and incels, and the tone of the shows is very much "Do you know what your kids are watching on the internet huh? HUH? THEY COULD BE EXPOSED TO MISOGNY AND HATE!"

The scene where a psychologist woman who looks like she has fetal alcohol syndrome straight up grills the boy over the fact he is in any way angry or violent, poking him with verbal sticks until he eventually explodes in anger and she acts like this is some sort of super dangerous reaction and not what would obviously happen to any teenager being grilled by a adult they don't respect or like trying to indirectly call them retarded is a pretty good example of the state of the UK. A tyranny of Auntie BBC who pretends that just because they word it politely and wag their fingers it isn't actually a tyranny, but just good manners! Its a great example of how pussiefied the UK is that the idea of any sort of pushback is seen as violence, and that young boys should literally behave like women or be considered defective.

At least people say the cinematography is good, which seems to be true. And apparently the 4th episode isn't even a episode but a straight up PSA with the actors and crew literally preaching to the audience about the subject of the show which if true is even more hilarious as to show how fucking over the top this propaganda is, as in they are so desperate they can't even leave it to chance they need to literally break the 4th wall to tell you directly the message they wanna pass along.

 

[7.62x38mmR]

In general there seems to be a big tendency to blame specific problems within CERTAIN groups of men onto men in general.
You see this here with immigrant violence being blamed on men in general (something also seen in the many western countries where ads speaking out about "sexist violence" always predominantly feature white men, even though when the cameras are off all the women will gladly admit it's mostly foreign men responsible for it) but also amongst the left in general.

There's a duo of leftoid streamers called "Dany & Raz" over here in France that are your typical leftoid rats ; they're annoying fags, they're cunts, they bend over for muslims and africans, etc... you get the idea. One incident about them that i found to be really interesting was when the aforementioned "Dany" got caught treating his girlfriend like shit. Of course, since he's your average male feminist, people caught on pretty quickly.
But what i found to be really interesting was how he defended himself. On top of course of avoiding mentioning what he did as much as he could, he... actually took full responsibility for it and admitted everything. However, instead of recognizing that HE was responsible for it, he pulled out the usual "men are trash" thing and placed the blame on his nature as a man.

It's just an isolated example, but i can't help feel like it's the perfect representation of what's going on in our society nowadays. We can't afford to go out of our way to target the abusers specifically, noooo, so we'll just target 50% of the population because it's more politically correct this way. Never mind the fact that the only people that would listen... are the one that wouldn't do any of the problematic shit in the first place.
Seriously, who the fuck are the "hey guys rape is LE BAD ! Did you know what ?!?!" posters supposed to be for ?

 

[Nuclear Poisoning]

It has turned into a obcession for the British political class and the UK government is in fact going ahead with using the show as a prop to provide a "solution" to "youth knife crime" by implementing mandatory indoctrination educational classes to scan students for wrongthink misogyny.

It's a small detail, but it's telling how Keir Starmer referred to it as both documentary and drama in the recent parliamentary questioning session. He's implicitly admitting it's state-approved propaganda.

 

[JesusChristDenton]

The scene where a psychologist woman who looks like she has fetal alcohol syndrome straight up grills the boy over the fact he is in any way angry or violent, poking him with verbal sticks until he eventually explodes in anger and she acts like this is some sort of super dangerous reaction and not what would obviously happen to any teenager being grilled by a adult they don't respect or like trying to indirectly call them retarded is a pretty good example of the state of the UK. A tyranny of Auntie BBC who pretends that just because they word it politely and wag their fingers it isn't actually a tyranny, but just good manners! Its a great example of how pussiefied the UK is that the idea of any sort of pushback is seen as violence, and that young boys should literally behave like women or be considered defective.

Haven't even seen any videos related to the series, but that sounds like an even faker and gayer version of "I AM A SURGEON!!!".

 

[mindlessobserver]

There's currently a moral panic in the UK over the idea that young boys are being brainwashed by social media to hate women. For some reason this doesn't seem to be as much of a thing people are concerned by in the US? But in any case, this is the tabloid's current fixation. British media has always done this whenever a new form of entertainment has come along. In the 80s the emergence of the home video market gave rise to handwringing over "video nasties". In the 2000s it was violent video games like GTA. Now it's social media and the evil sorcerer Andrew Tate and his supposed growing army of minions (for what it's worth, most teenage boys do not have a positive impression of Andrew Tate - if they've heard of him, they think he's a joke).

It's a show designed to scare pearl-clutchers and clueless parents into supporting more regulation of the Internet. The co-writer of the show openly suggests the solution is banning smartphones and social media for under-16s. How this is expected to be enforced is anyone's guess. As for my own thoughts, in a roundabout way I actually agree that smartphones and social media is bad for children: But the evidence suggests it's actually far more of a problem for teenage girls, not boys. The spike in gender dysphoria and identifying with various mental disorders among this demographic being a prime example.

The USA has spent the last decade arguing politically over 4th wave feminisms insistence that men are bad and the future is female. The majority opinion has come down hard on "this is subversive and toxic to society". We still have similar voices of harridan childless women screeching about toxic masculinity, but its not taken seriously or brought up in the halls of power anymore. Even the Democrats are trying to get away from it as they know its a failing argument here.

 

[The Skeksis Emperor]

At least people say the cinematography is good, which seems to be true.

I watched the first two episodes and was impressed, I'm a sucker for that one-take trick. The actors all did a great job too. I just hated where they went with the show.

In Episode 2 they mentioned Tate and I felt no desire to continue watching. I actually appreciated that the female cop said that asking why the kid did it is pointless, because you'll never know why, and the victim is always forgotten because of society's obsession with the perp - this was then completely ignored in the rest of the show. The family of the victim didn't get an episode.

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

It looks like the usual manipulative garbage where instead of having some brown/white trash kid do the stabbing like in reality they make him look like an ordinary kid to guilttrip native mothers to cut their son's dick off, either figuratively or literally.

The interesting part is how targeted it is against the native populace. The UK would gladly make everyone a Nigger in their media, unless it's to pass a message that White men are dangerous and must be stopped by all costs.

 

[Calandrino]

I kind of expected a Netflix show called "Adolescence" to be something worse than this.

 

[Tasty Tatty]

Where 13 Year Old Schoolboy Murders Classmate​

...and it's all our fault somehow.

 

[mindlessobserver]

The interesting part is how targeted it is against the native populace. The UK would gladly make everyone a Nigger in their media, unless it's to pass a message that White men are dangerous and must be stopped by all costs.

Incidentally, this is the actual perpetrator of the event on which this story is based.



Alex Muganwa Rudakubana

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6p2yrg3pvpo

But don't worry. Its based on a true story.

 

[.iota.]

i watched it the other night, and i didn't think that it was awful.

it's well executed. i particularly appreciated that each episode is centered on a different perspective as the series moves through time. the first is that of the young man, as he's arrested and processed. it sets the expectation of the series being a crime procedural. the second episode, which takes place three days later, seems to confirm as much until it veers into more of a personal drama concerning the detectives involved in the arrest and investigation. then the third episode, which follows up on the accused seven months later, as he's being assessed by a psychologist prior to his trial, shifts to an even more personal perspective. the actor who portrays the young man is simply stunning in his ability to vividly contort around the emotions and motives of a 13-year-old accused murderer. finally, the forth episode, which takes place just over a year after the arrest, abandons the criminal aspect almost entirely. instead, it follows the family on the father's 50th birthday, as they reveal their struggles, both personal and as a family unit bereft of the son, whose absence is keenly felt.

i understand that there are going to be critics who will find their own points of contention with the series, as there are certainly a number of unnecessary inclusions, but i think that anyone who would denigrate the entire series on the basis of their own petty grievances is simply choosing not to engage in an honest discussion. while i wouldn't say that i was deeply moved, or frightened, or angered by the series, i did find it to be somewhat thought-provoking.

As mentioned already, they raceswapped the kid and also made him younger and babyfaced

race-swapped it with whom? the series isn't based on any particular incident; it's a hypothetical.

the perpetrator could have been brown or black, and that would simply allow the series to be dismissed by being embroiled in claims of racism. the perpetrator could have been a young woman, and that would have allowed it to be dismissed with claims of misogyny. it works as it is because the series is less about the perpetrator, or the victim, or the crime itself. it's about the very personal impact on the families, communities, and people serving the institutions who are left in the wake of such a crime.

she acts like this is some sort of super dangerous reaction and not what would obviously happen to any teenager being grilled by a adult they don't respect or like trying to indirectly call them retarded is a pretty good example of the state of the UK. A

this is the first indication that you haven't watched the series. if you had, you would know that the entire third episode revolves around the relationship that the psychologist has built with the accused prior to what we see in the episode. his emotions vacillate wildly throughout their conversation, with the young man expressing his respect for the psychologist, and frequently apologizing for his outbursts. he even specifically tells her that he likes her, and the last that we see of him in the episode is while he's screaming and pleading with her to tell him if she likes him.

At least people say the cinematography is good, which seems to be true. And apparently the 4th episode isn't even a episode but a straight up PSA

so you've written a diatribe about a series that you haven't even watched?

while i appreciate the article that you've posted, as i had no idea that the series had garnered so much attention, it seems odd that you, and so many others in this thread, would have such strong and certain opinions without having seen it.

In Episode 2 they mentioned Tate and I felt no desire to continue watching

it was a passing comment, and i'm fairly certain that he's never mentioned again. in my opinion, the series becomes better and much more engaging as it progresses. the narrative shifts dramatically from general to personal, and what i found the most interesting is that even though the premise of the series is oriented around murder, we never really see or hear the specifics of the crime. there is one brief cctcv video of the incident shown on a laptop, and there are a few photos of the victim shown, but there are none of the typical police procedural revelations and none of the expected courtroom drama. instead, by the third episode, we are only shown that the accused has the capacity to have committed the crime, and by the forth episode, he's only present in the slightest way as the source of the damage that's inflicted on his family in his absence.
(edited for clarity and spelling)

 

[General Emílio Médici]

race-swapped it with whom? the series isn't based on any particular incident; it's a hypothetical.

Bullshit and you know it. All the cases similar to this that have happened in the last 5 or so years have been "youths" of migrant background or from poor as fuck broken working class families, both aspects which the show ignores.

so you've written a diatribe about a series that you haven't even watched?

while i appreciate the article that you've posted, as i had no idea that the series had garnered so much attention, it seems odd that you, and so many others in this thread, would have such strong and certain opinions without having seen it.

Yes. I am not gonna watch it and I am happy to ignore it. This isn't like say Legend of Korra or something from back in the day when this cancer started getting heavy where I would hear the complaints and think "Ok this doesn't sound good but I still wanna give it a go to judge for myself."

The reason us A&Niggers are having such a strong reaction to it is because it is painfully obvious that this series is being dishonest and used as a propaganda tool. To someone who is out of the loop or willfully ignorant of the political climate in the UK and Europe it might pass them by but if you know the issues and the context it is impossible to ignore the glaring omissions and obviously carefully constructed plot line to skirt around issues.

Since you have watched it can you provide us with some context then? Do they really spend the last episode making a 4th wall breaking PSA? Do the politician scum shilling this series as if it was a real case and demanding action based on it sound like they actually watched it or are they doing the sort of thing we did just on the opposite side of the political spectrum and sucking it off for clout without seeing it? Are we told about muh soggy knees is a core cause and do they really keep acting like feminism hasn't been in power as a political ideology of the mainstream for 30 years now?

 

[GratsTheat783]

Since there's accusations of it glowing (and I don't disagree), is there any direct or indirect evidence any of the people and groups involved in it's production have links to the government? I 100% agree the PM and other 'influencers' are trying to use it as a distraction.

 

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Incidentally, this is the actual perpetrator of the event on which this story is based.


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Alex Muganwa Rudakubana

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6p2yrg3pvpo

But don't worry. Its based on a true story.

As always, for liberals its infinitely easier to blame men and musoggyknees instead of realizing the problem is their beloved diversity.

 

[PatrickButtmanJr.]

SPOILERS BELOW, IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO WATCH IT BEFORE JUDGING LIKE A RATIONAL HUMAN:

Having watched the whole thing, I thought it was great all around.

Tate gets mentioned in passing, and part of the suspicion is due to the kid being called an incel on social media by the victim a few times, but it's not screaming MEN ARE EVIL AND WILL KILL YOU ALL! Eventually, that gets dropped when there is nothing to support the "woman-hating killer" theory.

The 3rd episode is mostly him and the psych, and he's not shown to be some Tate fanboy ranting about "alphas and betas" or "The Matrix", nor over compensating for closeted gay feelings. He's not some one-dimensional, moustache twirling villain, but rather a normal kid who is overwhelmed by his peers, girls, school, society, his family, and the sexual urges of puberty. He understandably gets upset because this person is trying to get into his head during a stressful incarceration, but never in a "drooling rage monster about to rape every woman in a 10 mile radius" way.

If anything, the girl appears to be a bigger bad guy than the boy, since they discover that she made fun of him online and was a complete bitch, not some pure, innocent soul. We don't even see or hear from her family, and barely know anything about her exact what she did to the boy and that she had a close friend named Jade.

We never see the crime, nor the footage the father saw, and they leave just enough ambiguity that the boy might have done something to the girl like attack her in a rage, but then left the scene and someone else finished her off, due to the fact that she made other enemies of boys at school and the knife was never found and owned by another boy that was at the scene at the time.

The fourth and final episode focuses a year later on the father, mother, and older sister, shopping for some paint to cover up the word "nonce" painted on the dad's van. They are presented as normal, loving family who has been knocked for a loop by all this. The dad is not some wife-beating monster or sexual abuser, just a regular guy dealing with the constant snooping by neighbors and taunts by snotty punks. He's not painted as a Nazi training his kid to knock up more pure white babies, just a man barely holding onto his sanity and his family.

It ends with the boy calling his dad to wish him a happy birthday, and to let him know that he'll be changing his plea from Not Guilty to Guilty. The father goes to the kid's room and cries. That's it. I suspect that this will get a second season to continue the story, especially since the ratings we bigger than expected.

 

[General Emílio Médici]

SPOILERS BELOW, IF YOU ACTUALLY WANT TO WATCH IT BEFORE JUDGING LIKE A RATIONAL HUMAN:

If anything this makes it sounds like the people glazing on it in the UK government didn't watch it either. How does this translate into toxic masculinity and misogyny as the main causes of the drama? I haven't heard a single one of these NPCs who are cheering on the thing as some exposé on toxic masculinity and the issues of teen boys and crime mention the bullying of the kid or the fact that the murder is not even confirmed to have been done by him. Why was the dad accused of being a nonce? Is this addressed?

 

[NoIdeaWhatImDoing]

sorry but is this a real issue? like how many normal 13 year old boys are out here killing girls that rejected them?

You can make shows about things that are unusual but people are talking as if this was common. It isn't. Most of the people who commit crimes like this show clear antisocial behavior well before it happens.

Incidentally, this is the actual perpetrator of the event on which this story is based.


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Alex Muganwa Rudakubana

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c6p2yrg3pvpo

But don't worry. Its based on a true story.

This is a good example of what i am saying, this dude said he wanted to kill people several times before he actually did it. The Soham murders is another one, everybody in the neighborhood knew the dude was a pedo.