[Ammi]

…it was a pretty powerful story which I guess was navigating not only adolescence as it is for those going through it in the current times…but also the loss of Jamie’s adolescence because of what he’d done…

…I liked the almost separation of each episode which were obviously intertwining but also each one focusing on a different aspect of how the events would impact a family and a whole community…

Spoiler:

….obviously the first episode being a lot about procedure etc following the crime…and then the second episode covering the detectives going to Katie and Jamie’s school…it was also a good edition to the storyline to have the detectives own child at that school…/…obviously he explained the emoji use on social media which was a huge key in the story…but also, the impact on him with his peers in being the child of a police officer…also feeling some of Jade’s turmoil of emotions…I think the third episode was the most riveting for me…that intensity between the psychology assessor and Jamie and brilliantly showing him as equally vulnerable and threatening…and then the last episode of how the family was living their lives in the aftermath of it all…the impact on them with any society reactions and also their own relationship with Jamie……

…it really did navigate through and touch on so much that being an adolescent of today involves…the ‘revenge porn’ stuff that Katie went through, cyber bullying and exposure to ‘incel’ ideologies…

Spoiler:

…as the officer said, how in the heck can a thirteen year old be tagged as an involuntary celibate when they’re not yet old enough to be sexually active…but it was the suggestion that and inferring that someone would be an incel in their whole future….

…there really is so much to navigate in being an adolescent in these current times with the power of the internet….

…all a very tragic and powerful storyline…