4.6 • 2.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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We watched the 4-part British crime series that's become #1 in 80 countries, breaking Netflix's records for an original series. And man, was it a bummer. But important!
We reflect on the purpose of the show, its one-take-per-episode format, the choice of whose perspectives to show, the crazy good acting by such a young person, and we get a little education about incel culture. How have things changed since we were kids?
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0:00.0 | This is pretty much pop at Culture Podcast. |
0:10.7 | And when I posted our last episode to Instagram, I'll say I got a pink heart, a yellow star, green clover, blue diamond, a purple horseshoe. |
0:17.2 | Not sure what all those means. |
0:18.3 | We're decoding it. |
0:19.6 | Today we're discussing adolescence, the four-part British series co-written, co-produced and starring Stephen Graham |
0:24.7 | as the father of a seemingly normal 13-year-old was caught having murdered a female |
0:28.9 | classmate. Shows to come number one in 80 countries breaking Netflix's audience records |
0:32.9 | for limited series. I'm Mark Lintonmeyer, with children safely over this dangerous age, though I guess |
0:38.1 | they could still commit securities fraud or something like that. I'm Al Baker, proving my artistic |
0:42.4 | bona fide ease by delivering all my lines this episode in one clean, unbroken take. I'm Sarah Lynn |
0:48.7 | Brock and I have nothing really very pithy to say other than it continues to be really tough to be a kid in middle school. |
0:55.8 | This is Lauren Swear. He mostly devastated in Oklahoma City of Oklahoma. |
1:00.1 | Whose idea was this? Al. Al. The Brit. This was mine because so I saw this being advertised to me on |
1:09.5 | Netflix and I was like, I'm going to watch that one day. |
1:12.0 | And then my girlfriend said, I just watched this thing and you have to watch it immediately. |
1:16.9 | And I won't say my girlfriend has a flawless record and those kinds of recommendations, but it's more hits than misses. |
1:21.9 | And I watched this show and then pretty much the next day or over the next few days, I saw that not only had I |
1:27.8 | watched the show and thought it was not only brilliant, but also deeply, timely and important, |
1:32.3 | but also seemingly everybody else in the UK had watched it in the same few days and come to |
1:37.8 | exactly the same conclusion. So there have been shows recently, which have been dramatizations |
1:42.3 | of real events that have caused a big |
1:44.4 | impact. There was a drama about something that in the UK is known as the post office scandal, |
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