Netflix recs?

[Miggs]

First graders regularly tell me about how they are so tired because they are up until 1 or 2 in the morning. It's nuts. I hear kids in elementary school telling me about drinking coffee.
I feel for you teachers big time.

I don't let my kid drink soda and never stays up past 9 even on the weekends. (She only almost 9 though)

My oldest is in 5th grade and doesn’t have a cell phone like most of her friends. We don’t plan on buying her one in sixth grade either. Maybe 7th. We shall see. She does very well in school (G&T, high grades, taking 6th grade math a year early) so maybe I’ll incentivize it for her and tell her if she averages a 96.0 across the board next year in 6th grade, she can get one but with some restrictions. We shall see. We might not get her one til even later and I think NJ will ban them in schools soon enough anyway so it could be moot.

 

[fishonjazz]

I'm about halfway through the 2nd episode and I'm really liking it so far.
The acting is amazing (including the child actors) and I like the plot/story.

It's filmed in a very unique way that is both a positive and negative. It has almost no cuts/scenes. Just flows through each episode in a very realistic manner. This is good because it's interesting and unique (I remember an amazing episode of true detective season 1 that had an epic scene filmed this way) but bad because you are forced to watch very mundane things at times. One scene had the boy being fingerprinted at the station and it was a couple minutes of the officer saying "right thumb. Ok good. Index finger. You're doing fine lad. Middle finger. Great. Ring finger. Ok. Pinky finger. Well done. Ok let's get the other hand now. Left thumb.". And on and on. Other similar scenes take place due to this style of filming. Still really enjoying the show but that is one minor nitpick so far.

 

[fishonjazz]

My oldest is in 5th grade and doesn’t have a cell phone like most of her friends. We don’t plan on buying her one in sixth grade either. Maybe 7th. We shall see. She does very well in school (G&T, high grades, taking 6th grade math a year early) so maybe I’ll incentivize it for her and tell her if she averages a 96.0 across the board next year in 6th grade, she can get one but with some restrictions. We shall see. We might not get her one til even later and I think NJ will ban them in schools soon enough anyway so it could be moot.

I hope they get banned in schools.
Drives me crazy when I see my daughter's classmates with cell phones. Of course she thinks if they can have one then why not her.

 

[Sardines]

Yeah, I finished Adolescence about a week or two ago. The last two episodes were brutal, absolutely brutal, to get through on an emotional level. Graham was amazing and the kid is the best child actor I’ve ever seen I think. I’ve never seen The Piano and a couple of other films I suppose but Jesus, episode 3 was a prodigal display and blew away Norton’s similar role in Primal Fear. The latter never scared me. The accent and delivery always felt a bit forced. This kid in Adolesence though was terrifying imo.

Tangentially, as much as I felt for the parents and they seemed like decent people, one part stuck with me that demonstrated they weren’t very good at all and that’s when the mother comments about seeing the boy’s lights on at one in the morning. I see it all the time in an urban high school. Parents stop parenting, thinking these kids can manage themselves, and children are left to their own devices. Up til midnight, 1, 2 in the morning, if they even go to bed. Cell phones, social media, video games, porn, they’re hooked. It’s a major problem in society and I imagine is a far worse problem in poverty-stricken areas than not. Graham and the woman were wonderful. I felt terrible for them. But they did fall short as parents.

You've sold me on it!

I think this is one I'll watch on my own. I hardly watch TV shows or movies unless it's something I watch with my wife, but our plate is full and I'm on the road all the time. It also doesn't sound like her thing while you've made it sound totally like my thing..

 

[Rubashov]

Yeah, I finished Adolescence about a week or two ago. The last two episodes were brutal, absolutely brutal, to get through on an emotional level. Graham was amazing and the kid is the best child actor I’ve ever seen I think. I’ve never seen The Piano and a couple of other films I suppose but Jesus, episode 3 was a prodigal display and blew away Norton’s similar role in Primal Fear. The latter never scared me. The accent and delivery always felt a bit forced. This kid in Adolesence though was terrifying imo.

Tangentially, as much as I felt for the parents and they seemed like decent people, one part stuck with me that demonstrated they weren’t very good at all and that’s when the mother comments about seeing the boy’s lights on at one in the morning. I see it all the time in an urban high school. Parents stop parenting, thinking these kids can manage themselves, and children are left to their own devices. Up til midnight, 1, 2 in the morning, if they even go to bed. Cell phones, social media, video games, porn, they’re hooked. It’s a major problem in society and I imagine is a far worse problem in poverty-stricken areas than not. Graham and the woman were wonderful. I felt terrible for them. But they did fall short as parents.

That final scene with Stephen Graham is so ****ing heart breaking. Just completely raw. And yeah that kids performance in all of episode 3 is next level, I mean all the performances are excellent but that was outstanding. The woman who played the shrink was excellent too.

 

[Rubashov]

I hope they get banned in schools.
Drives me crazy when I see my daughter's classmates with cell phones. Of course she thinks if they can have one then why not her.

I think they're banned from classrooms here I'm not sure if the kids are allowed to use them on recess I would assume so. My 14yo goddaughter is basically welded to hers.

 

[idestroyedthetoilet]

Time travelling lumberjacks of the confederacy.

The best line of many