The Rehearsal is awesome.

Adolescence on Netflix is in no way a feel good watch, but definitely worth it. Each episode appears to be one long shot. Most people I talk to think its a look at what toxic masculinity is doing to boys and their families, but I feel like it's about what digital culture in general is doing to our society as a whole.

TheCodeIsAlmighty wrote: Thu May 01, 2025 12:48 pm Adolescence on Netflix is in no way a feel good watch, but definitely worth it. Each episode appears to be one long shot. Most people I talk to think its a look at what toxic masculinity is doing to boys and their families, but I feel like it's about what digital culture in general is doing to our society as a whole.

Seems to me that what we point to as toxic masculinity is inseparable from social media. If social media went away, much of that (not all, of course) would go away as well, though it'd probably take longer than it took to become what it currently is. There's always gonna be assholes out there, but boys would not be so exposed and would learn better ways to cope with bullying, which likely would also decline with the demise of social media. At least it wouldn't be so widely broadcast.