Stephen Graham stars in Netflix 4-parter “Adolescence”

I agree ferry

13 year olds should be at home at 10pm.

And using the ‘f’ word in every sentence is surely not the norm for most families.

Doesn’t make it all ‘Enid Blyton’, it’s just decent civilised behaviour.

As I said earlier, I don’t have Netflix so can’t watch it, but if that’s what it’s about, I don’t feel I’m missing anything.

Our Boy Wonder of the same age is in bed, lights out by 9pm. Mind you he plays a lot of football and trains 3 nights a week. He comes home, physically tired (good for a growing boy), showers, supper and bed. Of course all families are different. But in the drama, he was still out on the streets at 10pm. I thought that very late.

I’m about to start the final episode. It’s addictive because the acting is so good, the tension is building and it’s illuminating about today’s attitudes of young teens with their Snapchat, Insta (only oldies say Instagram) and their take on emoji’s. Who knew they ascribe emotions to the colour of hearts?
❤️ I love you - Red
🩷 I like you but nothing sexual - pink
Etc. I can’t remember the others
And the kidney bean emoji!
There’s a teen world out there with their own shorthand of language….

I couldnt watch anymore, too "dark" but wanted to find out the ending, anyone else, here it is

www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/adolescence-finale-ending-explained#:~:text=How%20does%20Adolescence%20end%3F,racked%20with%20grief%20and%20guilt.

A harrowing, troubling and difficult watch, but superb.

Gripping from the start with incredible acting. The fourteen year old actor was outstanding. Apparently a vulnerable naive young boy.
The family depicted was an ordinary, close-knit, loving, family which makes this tragedy all the more shocking.
The effect on the girls in the community was skimmed over I thought.
I was in tears throughout. A must watch.

Well it didn’t end in the least how I predicted - for which I’m glad as it was more gripping the way the drama unfolded!

Highly recommended.

Highlights in the big and small ways parenting, friends, social media formulate us, our outlooks, our attitudes and resilience. Very interesting.

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Well it didn’t end in the least how I predicted - for which I’m glad as it was more gripping the way the drama unfolded!

Highly recommended.

Highlights in the big and small ways parenting, friends, social media formulate us, our outlooks, our attitudes and resilience. Very interesting.

There was a distinct change in direction from the first 2 episodes and the last 2. Although I guess on reflection, the clue is in the title.

I started out thinking there was a plot to be solved but it was never about the original storyline.

The acting was terrific.

I have just finished watching episode 1 and found it harrowing. Can't face another episode at the moment.

Terrific acting but distressing.

Yes well said ferry23 exactly this.

The cast are excellent its a programme worthy of binge watching.

This series is perfection. Ashley Walters is also a very good actor. This is what the BBC should have made but those days are long gone.

I found episode 2 set in the school was very depressing. The children are so disrespectful and teachers burnt out.

Stephen Graham excels in whatever he is in and he also directed it. I cannot believe that each episode was filmed in one take.

Looking forward to watching episodes 3 and 4 tonight.

Going to cancel Netflix though as they have just increased the price to £14 and most of the time it is dross.

I watch Netflix a lot, for the big variety in films.

I was reminded of this in some small way earlier. Himself had taken the Boy Wonder to ⚽️ an away match. In an area unfamiliar to them. Grandad asked if they should call at Greggs there before setting off home. In front of them in a busy queue was a late teen lad. The queue was slow and the lad suddenly yelled “F**k this!” and threw his bag of sausage rolls at the counter, shoved his way past a young boy and tried to upend a display counter of doughnuts but only succeeded in pushing it a few inches.

When he’d gone out Grandad said “That kind of behaviour is best ignored. You don’t know what they may have been on nor what they might be carrying. The only time I’d have said something would be if he’d hurt that young boy or was actually directing his anger at me.”

Good life lesson for today’s word Grandad for his 13 year old grandson.

There’s a lot of this antisocial behaviour about these days I think.
Wrong place, wrong time can be scary.

Scary isn't it FGT?

When I was at school (admittedly several centuries ago) it was considered daring to take your school hat off before you were actually inside your home in the afternoon. Or wear the wrong shoes - sure fire detention and letter to parents.

In a streak of mad rebellion we did once steal the school bell on 1st April.

Sometimes, with what you see on TV and what you read, it seems like you're out of place if you don't carry some form of dangerous weapon and casual drug taking is about on par with having a Big Mac.

Change isn't always for the good.

The middle classes who can afford it (and enable county lines with teenage boys on bikes - where on earth do these people think they get their supply and the misery behind it?) call it “wine with a line” apparently.

There is so much aggressive behaviour outside - in the street, supermarkets etc. Too much mollycoddling in the past. “Would it be okay if I sit here?” the teacher asks that belligerent young teen in ‘Adolescence’.

Sigh.
Get a Grip adults in the room.

I agree with what himself said to Boy Wonder FGT but in terms of the teacher asking "is it OK to sit here"

I think that first its probably recommended standard procedure and secondly - its an example of being polite.

Thank you Wyllow.

But as to your second point I think ‘politeness’ is one thing but craving ‘permission’ is another.

An example:
About 3 years ago I took L’il Miss a doctor’s appointment. She was 5 years old. The doctor asked “is it okay if I look in your ears?” Ye gods. What would he have done if she’d said “no”?
Years ago a GP would just have said to a young child “come here please I need to look in your ears”.

I honestly think we’ve swung the pendulum too far across.

Permission for everything these days. Gah.

I don't have Netflix and won't be buying in just to watch this...the whole thread sounds like an ad.

Stephen Graham is an excellent actor and always worth watching. Unfortunately I don't have Netflex so will have to miss what sounds like an excellent drama for our times.

Apologies keepingquiet.
Not an ad - Just a good drama to share and chat about and it’s also generated a bit of off tangent discussion by a few of us which, to be honest, I enjoy. Like sitting round a table with friends. 😁

Fabulous Drama
It has highlighted why Teachers are leaving the Profession
It has made me fearful for society
I want social media banned until users are 30
It’s so sad that children can leave separate lives without their parents knowing- and the peer group pressure that invades their privacy wherever they go

Very powerful message , brilliant acting

I don't see the thread as an ad. Many of us have Netflix - it's not a minority service - so it's reasonable to assume that a lot of us will have seen the programme. We don't hold off discussions of BBC programmes in case not everyone has a TV licence - it's very easy not to click on a thread that doesn't interest you, and this one does have 'Netflix' in the title.

I’m sure I read Treacle that the tech entrepreneurs in Silicone Valley don’t let their own kids use social media. For good reason perhaps?

When we were all at school, any bullying or meanness stopped at the school gates until the next morning. Now? Little in the way of respite. And with WhatsApp/Insta etc cliques can form so easily and be the gateway to aggressive behaviour.

Poor kids. We are sleepwalking into this really but I suppose you can’t put the genie back into the bottle …