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On 3/25/2025 7:50 PM, rhino wrote:

 moviePig <nobody@nowhere.com> posted:
 

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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.
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 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.

That criticism and others are out there.  E.g.:
    https://thecritic.co.uk/adolescence-is-an-absolute-clunker/
But one could argue that the story warns of dangers where you'd *least* expect them ...i.e., how even the best environment is no prophylactic.
Meanwhile, I was too entertained to notice the "lessons", hewing more to The Guardian's review: "the closest thing to TV perfection in decades".