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26-03-2025
- Entertainment
- Buzz Feed
"Adolescence" Writer Admits There's One Thing He Wishes He Could Change About The Show
Netflix Adolescence writer Jack Thorne has admitted there's one character from the show he wishes he could have explored more. The hit Netflix drama centres around the murder of a teenage girl at the hands of a boy in her class, and the effect these events have on the community and the teen killer's family. Episode two of Adolescence takes place at the high school where both the victim and her killer were students, with select moments focusing on Katie's best friend, Jade, who is in mourning. During an interview with The News Agents podcast, Jack shared: 'I wish, having now seen it and completed it and thought about it since, I wish we'd spent longer with Jade, her best friend.' He continued: 'I think Jade was a really interesting character, and she was beautifully played. She was really angry at Katie's death. And I think there was a way that I could have written that episode two, where I gave the audience slightly more glimpses of her, and in retrospect, I would have written a bit more of her in. 'But that's always the case with every drama you do. You sort of sit back and watch it afterwards and go, 'Ah, there was a story there that I didn't quite see'. 'So, I wish we'd done a bit more on Jade.' However, he said that he thinks it would have been a 'mistake' to centre an episode around Katie's family, as this 'would have sort of taken us into a story that we weren't telling'.
New European
18-03-2025
- Entertainment
- New European
GB News, Adolescence and the Andrew Tate fanboys
''Andrew Tate fans flood Netflix Adolescence with backlash as they claim influencer is victim of 'woke agenda',' ran a headline on GB News's website today as supporters of the unrepentant misogynist reacted badly to the streamer's latest runaway hit. The Stephen Graham drama Adolescence tells the story of a teenage boy accused of murder and delves into the world of incel culture and social media, with a character even mentioning Tate by name at one point. As a result Alex Davies, GB News's digital entertainment editor, scoured social media to find Tate fans who had been hurt by their idol's mention in the programme, including such messages as 'They'll do anything to drag Andrew Tate's name through the mud', 'That #Adolescence on Netflix is just utter woke shite' and one telling Tate that the boy accused of murder is 'is soooo fucking you. You will love him.' Davies wouldn't have had to dig too far, though, to find reams of social media posts from Tate fans hating on the programme – he could have just delved into GB News' own Facebook page! Tate acolytes and woke-haters queued up to add comments underneath the link to the story. 'The second they mentioned Andrew Tate I gave up with this show. Just another attack against him,' wrote Chris Plowman, while Carla Haywood mused: 'Andrew Tate is correct in most stuff he says. we need the old fashioned morals back. We need men to be men and women to be women.' Karen Roberts wrote that it was 'yet again people looking at far right ideologies to distract from other types of misogyny involving grooming gangs, forced marriages, etc', while Steve Russell claimed: 'The whole woke middle-class mainstream media despises Tate and would love to silence him – which is what they have been trying to do for the past couple of years.' And Marc Archer offered: 'He should sue Netflix. Another woke leftie company.' Meanwhile Jay Arnfield, who has a 'top fan' badge for the amount he has interacted with the GB News page, writes: 'The kid is from the wrong demographic background. We all know the demographic that is the problem. The Stats don't lie.' And Cathy Doherty didn't even bother to couch it in even those slightly nuanced terms, writing: 'I agree, I hope they do another one relating to the black on black stabbing that is centered around gangs.' Alas, presumably space constraints prevented Davies from including any of the comments from his own channel's social media.
