Back when I was at school, the only piece of drama I studied in which teenage boys and girls ended up going a bit stabby on one another was Romeo and Juliet. Today, star-cross’d underage lovers are exhorted to instead examine the new four-part Netflix drama Adolescence, which is less by William Shakespeare, more by William Wagfinger.
Supposedly, say the media, this is “the TV show everyone’s watching”, which rather disregards the fact that over 40% of UK households don’t even have Netflix. Nonetheless, all the right people in politics and the mediasphere seem to be viewing it at the moment, and such elevated individuals really do think their own limited breed represent the views of “everyone”, or at least “everyone right-thinking”, when it comes to politically fashionable subjects like toxic masculinity, with which the programme purportedly deals.
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