Why has “Adolescence” touched such a nerve?
The News Agents
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🗓️ 19 March 2025
⏱️ 42 minutes
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It seems that everyone is talking about the Netflix hit drama 'Adolescence'. It has been viewed 24 million times in just a few days, and is topping the chart in the UK. It deals with raw teenage toxic masculinity - and it’s hit a nerve. Even the prime minister is watching it. As Gareth Southgate warns of the dangers to and from young men who’ve got tangled up in Andrew Tates world we ask why it’s suddenly become a talking point?
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:11.6 | Young men end up with drawing, reluctant to talk or express their emotions. |
| 0:18.2 | They spend more time online searching for direction and are falling into unhealthy alternatives like gaming, gambling and pornography. |
| 0:27.6 | And this void is filled by a new kind of role model who do not have the best interests at heart. These are callous, manipulative and toxic influences |
| 0:43.3 | whose sole drive is for their own gain. |
| 0:46.3 | They willingly trick young men |
| 0:50.3 | into believing that success is measured by money or dominance, never showing emotion, and that the world, |
| 1:00.5 | including women, is against them. |
| 1:02.9 | That was Sir Gareth Southgate, the former England manager, and yes, this is the news agents |
| 1:07.9 | and not the sports agents. |
| 1:09.7 | But the former England manager addressing |
| 1:12.2 | one of the central questions of our age about whether young people, young men in particular, |
| 1:21.0 | are suddenly finding themselves lost and going in the wrong direction to find a way out. |
| 1:27.7 | He's not alone. |
| 1:28.9 | The new Netflix drama, Adolescence, |
| 1:31.2 | is one of the fastest growing shows of all time. |
| 1:34.7 | It talks about toxic masculinity, in-cell culture, |
| 1:38.4 | and it's even being watched by the Prime Minister. |
| 1:41.3 | What can they tell us about the way we're raising our young men? Welcome to the |
| 1:46.0 | newsagents. The Newsagents. It's John. It's Emily. It's Lewis. And we thought before we just |
| 1:54.8 | get to that discussion sparked by Gareth Southgate, that we should just update you on what we were |
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