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What About Katie?
Adolescence ignores her story to its detriment.
In the second episode of Adolescence — the new acclaimed Netflix limited series and runaway hit about a 13-year-old boy accused of murder — Detective Sergeant Misha Frank (Faye Marsay) tells one of her male colleagues what upsets her most about the case. But focusing on the topic of teenage violence and misogyny from the perspective of one of its perpetrators doesn’t necessarily provide us with any new or special insights into young men’s online radicalization — and it threatens to further obscure the lived reality and humanity of those who suffer its real-world consequences in the process. Only one episode, the second(with a title card featuring photos of the teenage actors when they were younger children, innocents) is set in teen world, at the secondary school where the detective worries to her superior that Katie will be forgotten while Jamie lives on in infamy.
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