sticks and stones new drama

Interesting though, especially as his daughter is also being bullied.
His colleagues are really excruciatingly awful!

The bullying aspect is hard and does happen. I think Thomas is either very naive or not very bright to fall for some of those things.

more than uncomfortable drama as bullies and the like rarely get their comeuppance . I watched part tonight and will not watch more.

I watched last night's episode and it made me feel so uncomfortable, I think I must watch it again to see what happens to Thomas.

Surely things like this don't happen in 'real life'?

Oh dear this is so brutal I want to give him a hug
Are you living in a bubble Ladygrace of course it happens in real life people commit suicide

sodapop Thomas was obviously bullied as a child at school just as his daughter is now She is deaf and different he was black and different He didn’t grow up with the tools of how to deal with it so when it’s happening in the workplace he is right back in the mindset of when he was a child not knowing how to act, how to belong it’s nothing to do with him not being very bright or naive Not belonging is the worst thing in the world and to have four and more all in the gang against you in an adult situation is horrendous He has taught himself to follow his natural path of being smiley and fun and trying to get ‘in‘ with the group but they are brutal and when it involves mocking his daughter he can’t take it
I m willing him to leave the job and move far away but it’s not that easy is it ?

After these reviews I will clear this series from my videos.

I’ve watched it and it makes me feel uncomfortable as my DH was bullied by an interim manager after a serious illness. Such a difference when manager was asked to leave.

We currently have two grand sons dealing with bullies. One who has been diagnoised with being on the Autistic spectrum and with ADHD, the other a sensitive, caring boy and they are being picked on to the extent that the first one has now stopped going to school and is being 'sort of ' homeschooled at his local library!!! The other one has been beaten up at a local park to the extent that he was sent to hospital and the police were involved. Last night we found out he was being verbally abused at the bus stop on the way home from school until a lady passing by intervened and helped him. He is 11years old FGS and he is terrified. So watching this happen to a grown man on Sticks and Stones is quite scarey !!!!

It's a hard watch

He's supposed to be the Team Leader. Not sure he's management material.

Unsure about a few things. Everything is going wrong in such a dramatic way

I'd like him to have a massive lottery win and move away from all the toxicity

Why Nankate surely we have to watch these things to know what’s really happening in life We can sometimes get in a little bubble how else can we help change happen unless we see it ourselves

We started watching it but turned it off after about 20 minutes. We didn't want or need to see how horrible people can be to each other. We see it already on a daily basis. The news is full of hate. The ongoing 'Brexit' has shown just how many people can 'choose' to hate anyone who does not share their opinion. I certainly do not remember so much hate when I was growing up. People cared for each other so much more. Neighbourhoods looked after each other, families looked after each other. Nowadays it appears to be the fashion to be selfish.

I also found it very uncomfortable to watch but I am going to watch the second one as I rather feel from the ending that the worm has turned and he is fighting back,

We were thinking of tuning in towards the end in hoping that we would see the 'toxic' people get their comeuppance!!! Always good to see that!!!

I had to turn it off, I found it hard to watch .

Its very true to life unfortunately
Painful to watch but I hope tonight is a turning point and Thomas is ok

I watched this on catch up as I watched Responsible Child when the first episode was on, what a contrast between the two. I found my attention wandering and I nodded off for a few minutes during the second episode but didn’t bother to rewind which is very telling. It could have been a reasonable series if the actors had been better but they seem very limited and one dimensional but most importantly they trivialise bullying. I will watch the third part on catch up to see what the outcome is but I will probably skip through some of it.

Just watched the final episode which made me feel upset and angry to the point i have a headache now but i am glad i continued with it and saw the outcome.

travelsafar I'm glad you watched it to the end as well as me. I can't understand people who won't watch something because it is a difficult subject. I find that this type of programme makes me much more aware of what is going on in the world and more sympathetic and supportive to people around me. Of course bullying happens all the time in real life and always did. I can think of many instances, though in my case I was lucky enough not to work in the cut throat business world (or politics) so I didn't see it to the extent it was happening to Thomas. I agree that Brexit has brought a lot of 'hate' to the surface but I think it was probably bubbling away underneath all the time.

Although this has stirred up memories (my post up thread) I’m glad to have stuck with it to see the outcome.

I too found it hard to watch , but I kept wondering why would you keep telling them everything and then when I saw the book at the end , it made me think did he have it planned all along ? After all the book title was how to be a millionaire at forty !! Hmmm ?

Reading this has me thinking I won't watch. I enjoy hard hitting drama but this feels too close to home. One of our grandsons is on the ASD, the bullying he experienced was awful. He's very bright, articulate, has a broad range of areas 'of special interest'. I could weep just thinking about the occasion when he came home with chewing gum stuck throughout his hair after being tormented on the school bus. He responded by re-reading the written information year 7 pupils were given on avoiding bullies on the school bus. He always sat near the driver from then on and totally ignored the tormenters.

I have to change nfess to returning to it for the last 40 minutes as i felt it was so upsettling that in true television form they would have to give a fairy-tale ending, and of course in the comfortable setting of the television screen they did not disappoint! Every single person thought he was at fault, I will not go on but in real life would anyone in his situation have ever had such an outcome? From what we really know and hear but especially do not hear - I doubt it very much. "Planned all long" some might say, but I very much doubt it - tv drama yes very much so.

*confess not change nfess!