With the extremely delicate social themes of Netflix‘s Adolescence, it ought to come as no shock that some viewers are politicizing the sequence.
Jack Thorne, who co-created the present with star Stephen Graham, just lately denounced “absurd” insinuations that knife crime within the UK “is just dedicated by Black boys” after unsubstantiated on-line claims that he modified the ethnicity of the primary character to make the present’s killer 13-year outdated white boy Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), who’s arrested for the homicide of a woman at his college.
“We’re not making a degree about race with this,” stated Thorne on The Information Brokers podcast. “We’re making a degree about masculinity. We’re attempting to get inside an issue. We’re not saying that is one factor or one other. We’re saying that is about boys.”
His assertion comes after Elon Musk personally amplified one submit on his social platform X, accusing Thorne of “anti-white propaganda” with the sequence, claiming he “race swapped the precise killer from a black man/migrant to a white boy and the story has it so he was radicalized on-line by the purple tablet motion.”
“Wow,” wrote Musk in response, providing no extra context for his 219 million followers.
‘Adolescence’
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Main Netflix’s charts in its debut week, Adolescence just isn’t primarily based on one particular case, nevertheless it goals to name consideration to on-line radicalization of younger boys and widespread reviews of knife crimes.
“The massive query was why is violence from younger males or boys in the direction of younger ladies or ladies going up? Why is that this taking place?” Thorne beforehand instructed Deadline. “Trying into it and attempting to pose that query as fulsomely as attainable, with out offering simple solutions, was the purpose that Stephen [Graham] and I set out on years in the past.”
Thorne added, “I hope what we’ve achieved is shine a lightweight on an space which has been talked about however not checked out. This is a matter that everybody has been conscious of, however discovering it by means of Jamie is one thing we’ve been set on capturing. That individuals are excited to look at and perceive Jamie, and attempt to perceive the difficulty by means of Jamie, is rewarding.”
