“80% of women are attracted to 20% of men”.
I finished watching Adolescence on Netflix.
SPOILER ALERT
It’s just four episodes, but the first episode is what got me hooked.
It’s about a 13-year-old boy named, Jaime, who’s arrested for murdering his classmate, Katie. It dives into the psychology of a child who commits an unspeakable crime, but it doesn’t stop there. It looks at the effect, how trauma spreads out in waves, the community, the legal system, and beyond.
It makes me wonder: What makes a kid do something like this? How much of it is genetic, and how much is environmental? There’s a focus on the dark side of adolescence—unchecked misogyny, toxic groupthink, the numbing influence of social media, and the impossible pressures that teens now face before they even know who they are. TBH, I don’t know if I’d want to be a teenager now but then again, this is all they know.
The writing in this show is intense and it starts off a bit slow but it quickly gains momentum, and the direction makes it feel like you’re right there—watching something unfold that shouldn’t be happening, but somehow is.
And I have to say, the actor who plays Jaime is phenomenal. His performance is haunting in the best and worst ways. He somehow manages to embody both vulnerability and dangerous, guilt and denial, all at once. There are moments when you see a scared kid and moments when you see someone entirely disconnected from the gravity of what he’s done. It’s very unnerving, and it’s supposed to be…
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