i think one of the most scary things about this is the fact that it’s not fictional. this is real. this happens in real life.
a few things i want to go into further detail on:

1. the therapy scene in episode three. this boy genuinely believes that just because the psychologist is a woman, that she cannot be in power of him. he thinks that because he is a man, he has to be in power. “YOU cannot tell ME what to do.” 

2. the very distinct difference between how he treats his father and how he treats his mother and sister. 

3. “i could have touched any part of her body i wanted to” is an absolutely terrifying…

i feel like i’m best known on here for my writing about film (some of which i’ve been paid for over the years, most of which i haven’t), but i’ve actually spent the majority of my “employed” life working with kids. when i was 16, i got my first job at a local daycare, where i worked with kids aged six weeks to six years. when i was 18, i became an assistant pre-k teacher at said daycare working almost exclusively with 4-5 year olds, and at the same time, i started college pursuing a major in secondary english education and eventually even began shadowing in various middle school and high school classrooms, before ultimately switching my major to a…

I'm sorry but based on all of the praise I've seen on this show so far I was expecting better. I do want to start by saying the acting & cinematography was amazing. the sense of claustrophobia & intensity they managed to create deserves to be acknowledged.

it falls short for me in so many ways tho. firstly, the fact that they completely neglected to delve into exactly *how* these teenage boys are radicalised & groomed by the manosphere feels like such a huge oversight. they completely skirted past it. if you want to make a show that highlights violence against women and girls & the proliferation of teenage boys being groomed by misogynistic grifters online, you might want to include how this actually…

The perils of social media and its impact on the youth become increasingly evident with each week, in an era where numerous prominent online figures are entrenched in their own dangerously masculine and bigoted perspective’s. This is the only project I've seen that openly mentions Andrew Tate, one of the primary propagators of these dangerous and vile views. There's a pivotal moment in this where one of the DCs mentions how the perpetrator is always on the front lines and gets the most attention. The victim's image becomes invisible as the man's visage is plastered on every piece. How frequently do victims become an afterthought? More light must be shone on the ever-present communities that promote hatred for women, and…