Unforgivable BBC everything Adolescence wasn't
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m002g7zb
Mind blowing acting, shows both victim and perpetrator (unlike Adolescence), explains why some victims of abuse go on to be perpetrators, but doesn't excuse any of it and answers questions we the viewer might be asking with other characters etc. No agenda in any direction other than just laying it out as a story.
Its very very good, and yes extremely bleak and harrowing and i guess depressing to some people who might not really know what depression is.
Also quite funny to see show set in Liverpool but with no Stephen Graham and they all are better actors IMO...
Won't get anywhere near the attention of Adolescence but far and away as a piece of TV way way way above.
Mind blowing acting, shows both victim and perpetrator (unlike Adolescence), explains why some victims of abuse go on to be perpetrators, but doesn't excuse any of it and answers questions we the viewer might be asking with other characters etc. No agenda in any direction other than just laying it out as a story.
Its very very good, and yes extremely bleak and harrowing and i guess depressing to some people who might not really know what depression is.
Also quite funny to see show set in Liverpool but with no Stephen Graham and they all are better actors IMO...
Won't get anywhere near the attention of Adolescence but far and away as a piece of TV way way way above.
Just read a review in the Guardian, and basically aligns with what i said. Although i can go a bit less subtle and state that Adolescence was so popular because it was made for the stupid people.
This wont get any eye balls on it because its far far more advanced. Which is a shame, because taking away the harrowing story, to watch it as apiece of TV production and writing and the acting, is pure joy, masters of the craft in all areas.
This wont get any eye balls on it because its far far more advanced. Which is a shame, because taking away the harrowing story, to watch it as apiece of TV production and writing and the acting, is pure joy, masters of the craft in all areas.
Kamov said:
Just read a review in the Guardian, and basically aligns with what i said. Although i can go a bit less subtle and state that Adolescence was so popular because it was made for the stupid people.
This wont get any eye balls on it because its far far more advanced. Which is a shame, because taking away the harrowing story, to watch it as apiece of TV production and writing and the acting, is pure joy, masters of the craft in all areas.
I'm guessing England isn't your first language? Might also want to take your head out of your hoop for all the sense you're making.This wont get any eye balls on it because its far far more advanced. Which is a shame, because taking away the harrowing story, to watch it as apiece of TV production and writing and the acting, is pure joy, masters of the craft in all areas.
crofty1984 said:
I was thinking about watching Event Horizon later. it's a much better horror movie set in space than Adolescence. Adolescence wasn't set in space at all. Didn't have Lawrence Fishburne in it either.
But it's always gratifying to see a story set in space that doesn't have Stephen Graham in it..........right?8IKERDAVE said:
I had to switch it off, sorry but it was leaning very much towards showing sympathy for child abusers.
Quite typical of the BBC trying to 'up' their wokeness. How long before we aren't allowed to be annoyed at paedos and must refer to them as something pathetic.
It really wasn't, far from it in fact. It showed how his abuse had destroyed a child and their family. It didn't portray him as a monster, but that is for cartoons.Quite typical of the BBC trying to 'up' their wokeness. How long before we aren't allowed to be annoyed at paedos and must refer to them as something pathetic.
Adolescence is made for the masses, made for people who need to hear simply things like 'Andrew Tate' 'manosphere', and think they can stop the very very very rare occasion a kid will kill a girl in the UK, by stopping them playing on a computer...
To think some programmes aren't made for stupid people is like saying Love Island is the same as a documentary about Vincent Van Gogh...
Discendo Discimus said:
You know you can enjoy and recommend a TV show without slagging off Adolescence. I don't really see the link between the two.
Weird of you to say Adolescence is for stupid people too. What a statement!
Agreed. “Stupid people”? It was a very well made show with considerable technical ability on show as well as acting, writing etc. I enjoyed it and am not particularly stupid.Weird of you to say Adolescence is for stupid people too. What a statement!
E63eeeeee... said:
I must be one of the stupid people, but I can't work out how Adolescence could have "showed the victim".
At least not without changing genres quite significantly.
Very strange thread.
Its been done a multitude of times in many films and programmes, its this thing called a 'flashback', or hell even having an actor to play the murdered girls Mum would of been nice......At least not without changing genres quite significantly.
Very strange thread.
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