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moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> posted:

 
An English family's life is upended one quiet morning by the abrupt
arrival of armed police.  The four-part series 'Adolescence' (Netflix)
is not only a first-rate drama, but a technological marvel as well.
Highly recommended.
 
 

There's no question that the series is impressive from a technical point of view. Each of the hour long episodes were filmed in a single long take. Considering that the teenage lead is new to acting and was only 14 during filming, that's REALLY impressive.

The series is apparently the number 1 show on Netflix now - at least in the UK - and everyone's impressed by the series' intensity.

However, the series is unfortunate in one respect: apparently, 53% of knife crime in the UK is committed by blacks despite them being a much smaller percentage of the population than whites. It would have been more accurate to have the teenage lead and his family be black, rather than white. I don't want to demonize blacks here but, for whatever reason, the statistics show that more blacks commit this kind of crime and that's in absolute numbers, not just as a percentage of their community. 

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Rhino