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Watched Adolescence on Netflix today. Very interesting and very sad to watch really. Could it be clearer and could it go deeper into toxic masculinity? Sure. But I feel like it was a very real and disturbing display of how a typical suburban guy can become what the show portrays. It’s scary how I could even see things about my own life in there even though I became a well adjusted adult.
Though I see criticism from women online and I can really see the points they try to bring across. Makes me wonder who the series aims at as a target audience. I think, as a man watching it, it can be a good reflection for other men to show the danger of toxic masculinity. Though I must say it does so without any deeper dive into what that is exactly.
My main criticism of it is that it seems rather superficial. It tries to show the how but does not attempt to go into the why. It offers no deeper (systemic rather than individualistic) explanations or solutions and leaves too much open for the audience to interpret according to their own ideological framework. I find that fairly cowardly as it absolves the writers of the show of having to actually take an ideological position. In that regard is a quintessentially liberal piece of media.