Adolescence

this is like a slap back into reality, makes you realise how normalized those subtle but unsettling thoughts in young people actually are. it perfectly captures our reality—how evil, dangerous and harmful a "considerate smart 13 years old" can be. and not just that: he does those things because his surroundings shaped him into it. it surely wasn't his parents who made him like that [which is the central theme of the fourth and final episode]. the people (guys) around him, as he sees it, would've sexually harassed that girl. but he didn't. so, he should be praised for that, don't he?—and i think we all can agree that's not what their parents taught him. that's because we're not our parents. everyone's their own person. they didn't know what he was doing in his room all day, and maybe, yeah, they shouldn't have after all, so what they did was good: respecting their child's privacy. this is definitely not fiction. just like the one-shot technique used for every episode intended to show, this is reality, captured and conveyed exactly as you would live it: second by second, minute by minute, without a cut. the manosphere thing is real, social media is fucking your children's brains. and it's certainly not the so-called "lgbtq+ propaganda" y'all should be worrying about. “I'm sorry son. I should've done better.” the incredible performances from every single actor in this cast deserve to be praised, and each discussed topic in the series was presented without over-explanation, allowing the audience to sit with the discomfort and draw their own conclusions. i think that was a powerful choice that made the impact of the story even stronger.