‘Boys feel increasingly isolated’: teenagers on Netflix’s Adolescence

Sixth-formers discuss the hit show and what it is really like to be a young male in Britain today

• Warning: contains spoilers
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Everyone from the prime minister down seems to have a view on Adolescence, the Netflix smash about a teenage murder fuelled by social media and toxic masculinity.

But there is one voice missing from the debate: teenage boys themselves. We gathered a group of sixth-formers from Xaverian college in Manchester to get their views on the show, and find out what it is really like to be a teenage boy in Britain today.