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Could you expand on this?
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Yeah..
I think ep4 particularly is very much about how their son was leading another life online that they absolutely weren’t aware of. You see it in ep1 when the evidence is presented in the interview. In ep4 the parents have many conversations about how could one child turn out “good” whilst the son ended up doing something like this. They still can’t comprehend it. He took him to football, they treated him well, they encouraged his drawing etc.
When I finished watching it I didn’t immediately think it was an attack on social media, but now I’ve processed it a bit more - it kinda is.
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no. but if there are people that want to moan and cry then yes
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people who didn't watch the show, moaned and cried that the show did something it didn't do. yeah those posts got deleted because it just went that same way every thread goes with those users.
Some people need to get back in the Disney thread, at least their nonsense is somewhat contained in there 
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No, it's ragebait and has been discussed and previous posts deleted.
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It's Ian Miles Cheong. He posts misinformation for a living and gets very rich from it.
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I mean it's not hard to read his post. It even says "real life cases" so more than 1,and then brings up just one, and moans that by just looking at one, the show doesn't match that one example. It's crazy. This show brings up so many points, but perhaps it's just too much for someone people to understand. Like one episode is about the dad and his failings, how he tried to not repeat his own dad's failures but then made a whole now set of failures when bringing up his kid. This stuff seems to go way over people's head because 1 name is mentioned once briefly
I agree, many people can't see the wood for the trees.
My take on the programme is less of an attack on social media but more of a warning to parents to how their children are exposed to it. I'll spoiler this part -
When the dad mentions seeing the light in his child's room and on his computer at 1am and letting him be, that's just bad parenting in my eyes.
If you don't teach your child what is wrong then they will never learn what is right. Too many parent think that school will teach them everything so they don't have to, when that is simply not the case. It ends up with kids learning off each other or other less desirable sources.
As a standalone entity social media is not intrinsically evil - it's the users that make it what it is. For example, this forum would be a very different place if it weren't so carefully and well moderated.
I didn’t get that impression at all. The entire final section of dialogue was focussed around what the parents didn’t do; to what extent was it their fault? In the end they said they couldn’t accept responsibility for their own sanity but they regretted not doing better.
If anything I think the episode was commentary on how ‘children being left alone in the safety of their homes’ doesn’t make them safe… that’s not an attack on media; it’s a cautionary tale for well-meaning parents that take their eye off the ball because they aren’t mistreating their children in any ‘obvious’ way.
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Interesting the dislike for the last episode, I thought it was a chilling display of how tragedy causes shockwaves / agony for all those in the periphery.
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See I don't know what to think here. I remember being a kid with a computer and at 1am I'm either jacking it for the 10th time that day or playing age of empires 2.
I don't think I needed my dad coming into my room and telling me to go to bed in either of those situations, especially when I had school holidays so 1am wasn't an issue bed time.
But maybe from a dad's view ifs different. Maybe I would tell my kid to get off the computer, go to sleep, go outside more.
Really? What didn't you like about it? Seemed a great ending to me. Some great scenes and impressive work
The hype for this is unbelievable but as i don't have kids I don't think I'd find it particularly thought provoking?
I am interested in the 1 take nature of it but I suspect it's probably a bit of a cringe take and eye rolling look at "modern culture" BaD pArEnTiNg
I Guess I'll have to try it, stupid fomo TV.
I am interested in the 1 take nature of it but I suspect it's probably a bit of a cringe take and eye rolling look at "modern culture" BaD pArEnTiNg
I Guess I'll have to try it, stupid fomo TV.
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The media reaction to it is like a Brass Eye special,
You can ‘enjoy’ (?) the drama without needing to take anything away from the show.
For me that's part of what the show is trying to put across - things change and life is different as a teenager now compared to 20 years ago.
The dad is viewing this through the lens of "well I didn't beat my kid like my dad beat me".
What many millennial parents might see as harmless because 20 years ago they sat in their own rooms playing games and other mostly innocent things, today could actually be a teenager facing relentless 24/7 bullying on multiple social media platforms and trying to cope with that by immersing themselves in toxic online communities. Or they could just be playing games. If they're left entirely to their own devices, as a parent you'd never have a chance at knowing.