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00:00Adolescence has quickly become the most talked about show in 2025 but are we

00:05taking the wrong lessons from it? I'm TV and tech writer Matt Monaghan and these

00:11are a brief summary of my thoughts. I've got a longer opinion piece which will be

00:14attached for this video for you to find out more in depth. I'd start with what

00:20is adolescence? It's a drama about a young 13 year old boy who murders one of

00:25his female classmates. He doesn't seem like the type. That's the

00:31shocking aspect that he's a nice normal 13 year old boy from a middle class

00:37background and he just stabs and brutally murders one of his classmates.

00:42It's tackling topics like the intel culture and manosphere which is

00:48propagated by popular figures like Andrew Tate online and is drawing upon

00:54misogyny that's baked into a lot of our societies around the world. It's become

01:00a really talked about show. It's been a massive hit. It's setting the national

01:05discourse in the UK a bit like Mr. Bates vs. the Postman last year, 2024, but

01:12unlike that it's not an easy fix. You can't just overturn wrongful convictions

01:18of postmasters. This is a issue that's gonna have to take real effort to fix

01:24and I feel like a lot of people, the discourse around it is about, oh we just

01:30need to ban mobile phones but for teenagers and ban them in schools and

01:36maybe ban them off social media and I don't know what the right answer is but

01:41that's too simple really. Like we're going down a rabbit hole that isn't the

01:47issue in the show itself. His parents, the texts of the show, say that he was

01:53radicalized while, you know, he was always in his room on his computer with

01:57the door locked, suggesting that's where he was radicalized. So whether he has a

02:01mobile phone or not wouldn't have changed what he saw on his computer, you

02:06know. So I think we're getting a bit, you know, in the weeds and looking for just a

02:13quick buzzy fix and it's an issue that's gonna take a lot of effort to solve. It's

02:18not something that we can just click and it's gone like the reversing the

02:23postmasters convictions. It's something that's gonna have to be grappled with

02:30and it's, yeah, we're taking the wrong lessons from the TV show is my point. You

02:36can read my full thoughts in my opinion piece below. Give it a like and share

02:42with it if you enjoy it.