What Netflix’s “Adolescence” Got Wrong - William Costello - #924

Is adolescence a bit too real? So Adolescence is this Netflix show that's absolutely blowing up and getting crazy amounts of attention at the moment. Uh it's on track to become Netflix most watched mini series of all time. And that's just within a couple of weeks. So it's really capturing attention. And one um caller into a radio station that I heard from England uh this morning said that it just It hits home too much. It's a little too real. And this kind of left me

Floundering a little bit because Okay. you know, creative people who are making a show I'm not gonna hold their feet to the fire. They have creative license, they can make a show uh and depic whatever they want. But

We just need to hit pause a second because if this show is Prompting round table discussions with Parliament, with the Prime Minister, which it has. uh and the parliament are are gonna fund this show being shown to every student in the UK uh throughout the next couple of months, uh all within a couple of weeks of it airing, by the way. Then I think we're entitled to maybe scrutinize

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