Adolescence

City Hobgoblin said:
He got shown up to a degree in The irishman, up against DeNiro, Pacino, Keitel and Pesci.
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To be fair that’s like putting a very, very good premier league footballer in a team with the world’s best. He will do well but the world’s best will stand out.

I thought he was good in that though. Even Pacino has said he was surprised how good he was and, in one particular scene, Graham pulled a stunt that nobody other than he and the prop crew knew was going to happen. Took Pacino completely by surprise. The scene where he flings his dessert away in the prison cafe.
 
mancity2012_eamo said:
In the 4th episode the Scouse parents and the daughter talk about moving back to Liverpool, but the y are supposed to be somewhere around Wakefield,I think.

The school scene was shot in Sheffield and the kid himself is from North Wales, I believe.
They didn’t want to disrupt him too much so placed it somewhere in the North of England.
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Wasn’t his appropriate adult at police station introduced as being from Doncaster social services?
 
Just watched the first two episodes last night, watchable but akin to a back to back re-run of the Bill. Hoping for better things in the last two episodes with all the oxygenated hype.
 
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Two Gun Bob said:
Just watched the first two epidoses last night, watchable but akin to a back to back re-run of the Bill. Hoping for better things in the last two episodes with all the oxygenated hype.
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If you want action, entertainment, twists turns then this programme isn’t for you. It’s mainly for adults.
 
Two Gun Bob said:
Just watched the first two episodes last night, watchable but akin to a back to back re-run of the Bill. Hoping for better things in the last two episodes with all the oxygenated hype.
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Don't expect too much
 
Watched episode 1
For the hype I thought it was a bit of an anti climax

On the subject of parenting of young boys, went to pick my boy up at school today, he’s 5
He came out with a Minecraft hat that wasn’t his, saying he was given it by the teacher for being good in class. I questioned this as did the classroom assistant who asked was he sure he didn’t just take it out of the lost and found box but he said he definitely was sure.

Walking home I kept questioning him. He said there is a box of treats for when you get pupil of the week with sweets or toys and he chose the hat, then said the teacher even wrote his name on it.
I asked to see the name but he wouldn’t show me so I knew something was up and when I grabbed it off him it was another boy in his classes name on it. He later admitted he took it from lost and found.

I was just shocked at how quickly he could rhyme lies off to me and make up stories. Is this normal for a 5 year old?
 
cpa said:
2 episodes into Adolescence ... not sure why the acclaim .. does it get better?
feels like emperors new clothes to me.
Actings ok but not great from the kids .... really not sure with this....
Probably because I am an F#O#C
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Yeah... Not been past ep2 yet. It's not drawn me in, at all.

I watched Stephen Graham say the team practised the 'one shot' take all week and, to be honest, it feels like it. You can't expect child actors, some of whom it will be their first gig, to get into the shoes of their characters after reading a while and then practising the 'live run' in a week.

It stopped feeling 'organic' and flowing after a while and became stunted. The second episode 'chase' scene is what did it for me, finally, but it was heading that way before that.

Probably the 'one shot' take had started to bore me 10 mins into ep 2, but it would gained better traction moving into traditional editing after ep 1.
 
TinFoilHat said:
It sounds like Andrew Tate and other red pill arseholes BS. Would like to see the official stats.
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But, it's not BS. It's roughly correct. I expect backlash with the following notes.

The blame is social media. Without social media and the push to promote beyond wealthy and 6ft 2+ males, women's average goals would remain 'normal' in the West. I have seen, time and again, women 5ft to 5ft 5 reject 6ft men as being "too short", so what happens to an average height, working class man?

This sort of changes in other parts of the world where average wealth goals and desires differ. For the most part, those countries are unaffected by Western feminism, like it or not.

I have watched the relationship trends go from normal dating to old school thinking that men should pay for everything whilst women keep their own money. In the US the dating scene, that once was, is on its arse. Sites like 'Bumble' or whatever have stacked the decks on preference leaning towards what I mentioned in the beginning, therefore find their memberships dwindling. Here, it is similar, with 'good looking' women wanting wealth as a backdrop in exchange for dating. A below ave to ave looking woman, for the most part take what they can land, depending on how much interest they garner.

Simply put, average looking women can 'monkey branch' to the next best thing (above ave looking men can from lower or higher than their 'level'), whereas average looking men, tend to stay in their lanes.

I don't see these trends changing until the dating scene is pretty dead and it's almost there.

This is not the face of Tate, he didn't start the investigation on this trend, he jumped onboard. It's been around over 10 years before his entry. He's just a loud mouth hustler who brought attention to himself.

It's not the greatest name he could have, but there's guy whose channel is called 'Hoe_Math' that explains the 'monkey-branching' modern day trend in graph and he's not "Red Pill".

One shouldn't get hooked into anything that has a title minimising situations and allow an unbiased look into situations.

Enough ranting from me.
 
BlueHammer85 said:
that's a big 'but' in my view, the likes of Andrew Tate inspired incel communities are channeling so much hate, anger and confusion into children scrolling through social media - but you are correct, he shouldn't be out that time of night, his parents should be doing more - it's a massive wake up call to society on Parents, Schools, Government etc to do more and be more mindful.
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Good grief.

Again, try and not spout buzzwords. Try looking into why the likes of Tate grew (he's not there for no reason) and what created "incels" as you call them.

Put in the effort. Have a try.
 
I'm With Stupid said:
I watched this the other day, which was pretty interesting.



It turns out that a lot of this rhetoric was based on a now deleted blog referencing a study on around 600 people from well before Tinder and Bumble existed. But it’s true that women are far more likely to get matches on Tinder.
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Good post.

If I'd have read on, I wouldn't have posted what I did!!
 
117 M34 said:
Wasn't really a fan.
The message in the story was interesting and the acting was decent, although not as good as Stephen Graham usually is (and the coppers were terrible) but nothing actually really happens in the whole 4 episodes outside the first 3 minutes. I was waiting for a twist that never arrived.
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That’s the point. There wasn’t an easy explanation. “Oh it’s because he was abused by his dad” or “oh he was coerced into doing it by older lads” etc.

The fact there was no easy explanation is what made the whole story so powerful and deeply unsettling.
 
IrishBlueSince92 said:
On the subject of parenting of young boys, went to pick my boy up at school today, he’s 5
He came out with a Minecraft hat that wasn’t his, saying he was given it by the teacher for being good in class. I questioned this as did the classroom assistant who asked was he sure he didn’t just take it out of the lost and found box but he said he definitely was sure.

Walking home I kept questioning him. He said there is a box of treats for when you get pupil of the week with sweets or toys and he chose the hat, then said the teacher even wrote his name on it.
I asked to see the name but he wouldn’t show me so I knew something was up and when I grabbed it off him it was another boy in his classes name on it. He later admitted he took it from lost and found.

I was just shocked at how quickly he could rhyme lies off to me and make up stories. Is this normal for a 5 year old?
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Very creative mind but kids will be kids especially at that age. My son is too young to lie yet but you brought back a memory of my nephew lying at school, he said another boy broke his glasses and obviously the other boy and his parents contested this. My nephew eventually told the truth and the reason I remember it so well is because I sat with him when he cried after he'd been found out. He was very embarrassed. He's 20 now and didn't make a habit of it.

I'd say you should be heartened that he eventually told the truth.
 
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average at best, it seemed like they ran out of ideas after two episodes, the rest was boring.
lots of un answered questions, must try harder
 
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