Frisco stabbing proves "Adolescence" is a documentary
Can you guess the stabber and stabbee at a Frisco, TX track meet?
If you’ve been watching the hit Netflix series Adolescence, you know what teen stabbers look like:
By the way, sports-crazed Frisco, TX, a fast-growing exurb-becoming-suburb north of Dallas, has the highest black and Hispanic school achievement test scores and the smallest white-black gap in the country. The stabber and stabbee were teammates on the high school football squad.
The victim died in his identical twin’s arms.
And the dead kid’s dad raced to Foxnews to forgive the killer and lead the front lash. He didn’t give himself 5 minutes of rage.
'Adolescence' seems to have had a disproportionate impact in the UK, generating some weapons-grade (pun intended) hysteria.
It used to be that UK TV series avoided at least some of the worst of the tiresome social engineering tropes that have plagued US TV for many decades. But in the past 5 years or so they've gone all in.
Here's a good example. Mrs C and I have enjoyed a BBC-produced crime drama called 'Unforgotten'; it's about a cold-case murder investigation team in the London Met. It's not very realistic, but the first few seasons were well-crafted and very watchable.
Last night we just finished this year's Season 6, which was quite a piece of work, and I don't mean that in its positive sense.
There were really only three able-bodied, heterosexual, white male characters:
***One was the murder victim himself, who (spoilers now begin . . .) was a vicious jerk whose bad behavior escalated as he embraced right-wing ideologies (this is carefully explained), rendering him an adulterer, a wife-beater, and a predatory slumlord whose damp-ridden rental flat caused the death of an innocent asylum-seeker toddler. The whole point of this series is that this gammonesque monster richly deserved being slaughtered like the pig he was.
***The second is a Catholic priest who carries on an affair with a female character (who goes in for this because she works for a right-wing news station), and impregnates her, leaving her to abort her baby (later on she's made out to be strong and courageous for doing this). He then betrays her confessional outpourings to the police, and throws her out of his life and his church because 'people are talking' and he can't have that.
***The third is the feckless husband of one of the main characters, a DCI. He's just a serial womanizer/adulterer who lies and gets unceremoniously dumped when his dastardly doings are exposed.
Multiple suspects in the story -- two white women, i.e. the murder victim's wife and mistress, plus an autistic white man and a gay white man -- are painstakingly portrayed as being influenced to do BAD THINGS in response to being exposed to right-wing ideas, but then all of them are enlightened, recognize the error of their ways, and are redeemed into the Establishment UK leftist light.
It'll be interesting to see if the big UK media producers (especially the BBC and ITV) will follow the retreat-from-wokeness path it seems Disney and other American producers are going down.
The problem with this UK stuff is that its quality is still quite high. The acting, writing, and pacing of 'Unforgotten' remain strong. By all accounts, Adolescence is compelling viewing, too, although I haven't watched it. This makes these products more pernicious than their more typically-clumsy American equivalents, many of which have been degraded into self-parody by decades of theme-pushing.