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Originally Posted by Ray.

Not at all! In an era where every other show is a tiresome and condescending treatise on masculinity and what it means to be a young boy in today's world, this was...yet another one. Yeah you're right to pass, I'm sorry to say. Started off fairly promisingly, then it dropped the ball in the last two episodes imo. Even tried to vaguely tie it into Trump support at one point, with the young boy awkwardly waving away video evidence with a cry of 'fake news' lmao. Felt like a reddit powermod wrote this show. Very on the nose and hamfisted imo.

Originally Posted by Niamh.

Agree with this, and although the acting was good (especially from the boy in ep3) a lot of the scenes were drawn out and boring. I get the message and what they were trying to achieve but I think a lot of people will have tuned out

See I disagree here and would argue that the last episode (that focusses entirely on the effect on the family, the guilt/shame/acceptance/reflection/trying to move on with normal life) is the strongest and most interesting episode.

I would also say as the parent of a "current social world" teenage girl who has just come out of the trenches of "the early teens" ... the portrayal of a teenage boy of age maybe 10 - 13 is not unrealistic at all (besides the actual stabbing), and flippantly branding something "Fake news" is 100% something a boy at that age would do. Early adolescence is a dumpster fire of an age group.

I will say this - at 15/16 there are thankfully plenty of my daughter's male peers who are coming through the "awkward little arsehole" phase finally and maturing out of it, she's actually close friends with some of them who she couldn't stand in early high school (which I told her would happen, and she completely disbelieved a couple of years ago).

But yeah.

A lot of 13 year old boys are fkn awful. This is from recent experience. I'll "be fair" and say plenty of the girls were pretty awful too, and plenty of them just as aggressive, and certainly worse in terms of social exclusion tactics.