Portrait Of A Killer As A SchoolboyRupa SenguptaApr 30, 2025, 21:40 IST ISTAdolescence’s Jamie is a misogynist monster? People are still talking about it, staggered by its portrayal of a schoolboy who kills a schoolgirl after consuming online misogynistic content. Adolescence ’s co-creator Stephen Graham read about cases of boys stabbing girls, and rising knife crimes in UK. Drawing from these reports, the series-makers wove an ingenious plot around an ‘ordinary family’ – caring, if clueless parents, cute kids – struck by tragedy. They wanted common folks to think ‘My god, this could be happening to us!’ They also sought to avoid blame-the-parents ‘tropes’ – violent dad, alcoholic mom – in portraying loss of innocence.

Source: The Times April 30, 2025 16:18 UTC