‘Adolescence’ writer demands ‘rapid action’ not role models
‘Adolescence’ has been the talk of the town since its release on Netflix
The Netflix series Adolescence has been the talk of the town since its release, being discussed by celebrities, shows, writers and activists.
“A family's world turns upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller is arrested for murdering a schoolmate. The charges against their son force them to confront every parent's worst nightmare,” reads the synopsis.
Writer behind the show, Jack Thorne told the BBC, "I've had lots of responses from people I haven't heard from for years, telling me about conversations they're now having with their children. That's really gratifying.”
"My son's headteacher stopped me at the school gates to say, 'I'd like to talk to you about this, and I'd like to think about what our school can do and what other schools can do'. The conversations seem to be starting in all sorts of different places,” he added.
Demanding “rapid action” against factors like incel communities, he admitted that they were not pointing fingers at just one thing, "I really hope this is a drama that suggests that Jamie is like this because of a whole number of complicated factors."
"He is this vulnerable kid, and then he hears this stuff which makes sense to him about why he's isolated, why he's alone, why he doesn't belong, and he ingests it. He doesn't have the filters to understand what's appropriate," continued Thorne.
He remarked further, "At this age, with all these different pressures on him and with the peculiarities of his society around him, he starts to believe that the only way to reset this balance is through violence."
Recalling having gone through similar rabbit holes, the writer observed, "It was far from just Andrew Tate. It was not those big guns of the manosphere. It was the smaller blogs and vlogs and the little bits like people talking about a video game, but then explaining through that video game why women hate you. That was the stuff that I found most disturbing."
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