Why everyone in Britain is talking about Netflix’s Adolescence
The show has captured how British society is grappling with what it means to be a boy when the loudest voices defining masculine identity belong to Andrew Tate and Donald Trump.
During question time, UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer told MPs that along with his teenage son and daughter, he’d joined the millions of Brits watching Adolescence, the four-part Netflix series about a 13-year-old boy who kills a schoolmate.
UK MPs have called for the show to be screened in parliament, every news program seems to be discussing it and school WhatsApp groups are lit up with anxious messages from parents troubled by what they’ve viewed.
