This is an extremely well written, well acted (esp the young male actor playing Jamie and the father), and well directed series. That said, people are getting caught up in the faulty notion that working class white tweens are out there stabbing girls over Andrew Tate stuff. That just isn't happening, nor is it a real threat on any broad scale.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not condoning the boy but kindness goes a long way. Has the girl been kind and rejected him kindly, she probably wouldn’t die.

So what would he have done?

Oh okay, bye!

She assaulted him first by pushing him. If he did only that to her, it would’ve been seen as assault. I think his friend Ryan convinced him to take the knife and threaten her, but when she pushed him down and laughed and probably called him a wimp/or p word, he lost it.

The show doesn’t make the girl look good. This show is just as much a lesson to girl parents as it is boy parents but Western media will only paint the “toxic masculinity” angle and not discuss the girls. In reality, middle school girls are vicious even to each other and are far worse than boys. Girls mature faster than boys

The show is not about blaming the girl or anyone, it’s just going over events as they happened and what lead to the young girls tragic death.
Nobody is a saint

It definitely blamed the friend who lent him the zombie knife used in the murder.

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Anonymous wrote:I am not condoning the boy but kindness goes a long way. Has the girl been kind and rejected him kindly, she probably wouldn’t die.

So what would he have done?

Oh okay, bye!

She assaulted him first by pushing him. If he did only that to her, it would’ve been seen as assault. I think his friend Ryan convinced him to take the knife and threaten her, but when she pushed him down and laughed and probably called him a wimp/or p word, he lost it.

The show doesn’t make the girl look good. This show is just as much a lesson to girl parents as it is boy parents but Western media will only paint the “toxic masculinity” angle and not discuss the girls. In reality, middle school girls are vicious even to each other and are far worse than boys. Girls mature faster than boys

The show is not about blaming the girl or anyone, it’s just going over events as they happened and what lead to the young girls tragic death.
Nobody is a saint

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Anonymous wrote:I won't watch this. Based on "growing knife crime" in the UK--then completely twisted to make it appear yet again that young, white men and boys are the problem. And you all can't figure out how Trump got elected.

Your commitment to remaining uninformed is truly impressive.

My son was a sophomore at George Mason about 6 years ago. In a cultural studies program class the professor asked all the white males to stand up and "apologize" for the wrongs their fathers and grandfathers had committed. If you don't think white males are subject to harassment and unjust discrimination you really are either a happy bigot or clueless af.

Universities, along with FCPS, are openly hostile towards cisgender white males in the classroom:

https://thefederalist.com/2019/08/14/sons-freshman-orientation-virginia-tech-full-leftist-propaganda/

I was moved by the dad saying he thought he had done so much better than his dad because he didn’t beat his children like he had been beaten, but that wasn’t enough. Although we as parents try and do better, we don’t know what we don’t know.

My dad had a temper and hit us. I swore I’d never do that and I didn’t. But I could see myself being unintentionally disappointed in my children at times because of something I didn’t work out about myself. But I didn’t know what I didn’t know.

They announced season 2.

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Anonymous wrote:I won't watch this. Based on "growing knife crime" in the UK--then completely twisted to make it appear yet again that young, white men and boys are the problem. And you all can't figure out how Trump got elected.

Your commitment to remaining uninformed is truly impressive.

My son was a sophomore at George Mason about 6 years ago. In a cultural studies program class the professor asked all the white males to stand up and "apologize" for the wrongs their fathers and grandfathers had committed. If you don't think white males are subject to harassment and unjust discrimination you really are either a happy bigot or clueless af.

While I'm sure something happened, I do not for one minute believe it was as your son perceived. As you were not there, you cannot say either way.

And while I'm sure they are discriminated against, it's laughable that you think it is on par with what women and POC experience every day.

Whatever.

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Anonymous wrote:The show is entirely fictional. Nothing like it (cute, polite white boy randomly stabs classmate) ever happened in the UK. The show is slander against boys.

What it does capture is a real phenomenon where boys are increasingly rude to their female teachers, as expressed in this NYT op Ed:

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/29/opinion/adolescence-misogyny-schools.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Schools have been hell for boys for too long to count. Girls are doing better on most every measure of academic success. Is it any wonder boys are opting out or lashing out? Schools are no longer set up for them. Adolescence is anti boy propaganda that will only make the problem worse by instilling a false sense of righteousness in the female educational establishment.

People always say this, but my question is when were schools EVER set up for boys? When my father went to school, teachers smacked him with rulers. They had to be obedient and quiet. They had leadership positions and got the best grades and went on to college. Girls were not encouraged to go on to university.

Nowadays, it’s flipped. Classroom rules are very loose. Students are allowed to do anything. Chat, walk around, call out, use their phone. It’s a disruptive environment.

I disagree that classrooms favor girls these days. I think they favor boys and yet they’re still doing poorly. Why?

I have two ADHD kids, one boy, one girl. EXECUTIVE FUNCTIONING. Also verbal social skills. The prefrontal cortex of girls brains are age faster than boys. So, girls, on average are a couple of years ahead of boys in executive functioning than boys. You take 6-7 classes, plus sports, plus leadership plus college apps plus volunteering and cram them all into a day. Now do with lagging EF. I thought boys and girls started with the same baseline to. Until I had one of each. Then it was like— ohhhh. Girls are also more verbally adept and socialize through talking more (which is less nature and. More interesting, nuanced nature-nurture thing. As a society, we still encourage girls, more than boys, to express their feelings. And tells boys to “man up”).

I never would have said this before having. Boy, then a girl, and seeing them, then their friends, and having mom friends who had both, or just one gender. But, in I do see the pluses of single gender education in 2025– and at this point, I think it would benefit boys more than girls (not all boys or all girls, but for many boys and girls, it would be a plus to not be competing and to have classrooms that focused on how they learn best).

Anyone remember the show Prisoners’ Wives?

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Anonymous wrote:I won't watch this. Based on "growing knife crime" in the UK--then completely twisted to make it appear yet again that young, white men and boys are the problem. And you all can't figure out how Trump got elected.

Your commitment to remaining uninformed is truly impressive.

My son was a sophomore at George Mason about 6 years ago. In a cultural studies program class the professor asked all the white males to stand up and "apologize" for the wrongs their fathers and grandfathers had committed. If you don't think white males are subject to harassment and unjust discrimination you really are either a happy bigot or clueless af.

While I'm sure something happened, I do not for one minute believe it was as your son perceived. As you were not there, you cannot say either way.

And while I'm sure they are discriminated against, it's laughable that you think it is on par with what women and POC experience every day.

All those UK crime shows are just so drab and full of despair and no beauty or joy. If life in the UK is like this then not sure how people do it. This one was especially hard to watch and I gave up on it. It was 100% well acted and directed and the topic interesting, but just too depressing.

Anonymous wrote:This boy mom vs girl mom debate is stupid. Props to the incredible man who wrote and starred in this show, Stephen Graham, who played Jamie’s Dad. Just give this guy an Emmy now. His performance was phenomenal, especially in the last episode.

Where’s the “girl mom” post? In your head?

I thought the show was phenomenal.

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Anonymous wrote:I won't watch this. Based on "growing knife crime" in the UK--then completely twisted to make it appear yet again that young, white men and boys are the problem. And you all can't figure out how Trump got elected.

Your commitment to remaining uninformed is truly impressive.

My son was a sophomore at George Mason about 6 years ago. In a cultural studies program class the professor asked all the white males to stand up and "apologize" for the wrongs their fathers and grandfathers had committed. If you don't think white males are subject to harassment and unjust discrimination you really are either a happy bigot or clueless af.

This boy mom vs girl mom debate is stupid. Props to the incredible man who wrote and starred in this show, Stephen Graham, who played Jamie’s Dad. Just give this guy an Emmy now. His performance was phenomenal, especially in the last episode.

Anonymous wrote:I won't watch this. Based on "growing knife crime" in the UK--then completely twisted to make it appear yet again that young, white men and boys are the problem. And you all can't figure out how Trump got elected.

Your commitment to remaining uninformed is truly impressive.