Adolescence: “Like its politicians and its wars, society has the teenagers it deserves.” ~ JB Priestley
Like millions of others, I have just finished the rather unsettling experience of watching Netflix’s Adolescence.
While there has been a great deal written about the technical aspects of the production, and the almost cliched but interesting contemporary themes such as the dark and tangled and impenetrable subtleties of teenage online life and what some critics have called “the impact of digital radicalisation”, as well as the more common and accessible anthems of the age: misogyny, toxic masculinity, bullying and each family’s almost internecine political complexities, there are other things to pay attention to in this fascinating series.
