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Teenage Boys Are In Crisis. The Creators Of Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Want Adults To Pay Attention

Teenage Boys Are In Crisis. The Creators Of Netflix’s ‘Adolescence’ Want Adults To Pay Attention

The world for kids today looks a lot different than it did for their parents. A scene from the hit Netflix series “Adolescence” captures just how vast that difference is. In the show’s second episode, Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe (Ashley Walters) is at a secondary school to investigate why 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), the central character, allegedly killed his classmate Katie. Based on their Instagram interactions, he assumes the two were friendly, if not romantic. That is, until Bascombe’s son — also a student at the school — tells him he’s got it all wrong. The seemingly innocuous emojis that…
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