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Spoilers follow for all four episodes ofAdolescence,now streaming on Netflix.
Adolescenceisnt exactly a mystery, since the identity of the killer is never in question.
With this early reveal,Adolescencemakes its intent clear.
This is reasonable, given the sheer amorphousness of the problem.
To what extent can we attribute this to the so-called manosphere?
To social media and the internet more generally?
To a broader misogynistic culture?
To the natural cruelty of people, young and old, which exists with and without digital acceleration?
Adolescences explicit interest in incel culture gives it a timely distinction.
(This is whereAdolescencesuse of the onerbriefly evokesChildren of Men.)
These kids are impossible, says one teacher.
What am I supposed to do?
But in keeping withAdolescences intent to distantly observe, its barely ever more than a suggestion.
The true mystery ofAdolescenceis a genuinely difficult one: What do we do about boys and young men?
He never left his room, says his mother, Manda (Christine Tremarco).
Hed come home, slam the door, straight up the stairs on the computer.
He wonders if he could have done better setting Jamie up with sports.
Did his abuse by his own father pass down some anger to Jamie?
