A Warning To All Parents

Adolescence is a brilliant display of the dangers of this bizarre wave of gender ideology that is swarming the internet. The Red Pill.

This article will be a praise to the series, sure, but also a slight critique, since as a teacher I have seen how this mentality is affecting young people (specially men) and how dangerous this can be.

The series opens with an operative breaking into a house, a scene we've seen a lot, and we expect a gang or a bulky delinquent to be the one they're looking for, but no, it's a 13-year old boy.

All the four chapters we see this develop, and from chapter one we see the reason, murder, the kid killed a girl from his classroom, stabbing her multiple times in a fit of rage.

A trope not seen a lot (perhaps in horror movies but is so wacky that it doesn't feel real... Maybe Sinister did a good job), and the explanation, if you're near 30 like me sounds just ridiculous, since it's cyberbullying, but not the one we are used to, it's not just messing with a person, the boy murdered the girl because he was blamed to be an incel and a red piller, two terms barely known by the adults in the series.

From there we have a chapter showing an excruciating therapy session between the boy and a psychologist were we see how the red pill "philosophy" has affected him and how it's a mix between aggression, insecurity and misogyny.

And then we close with the heartbreaking last chapter, after a year, we see the family trying to continue, suffering the social backlash of their son, and then the father breaks wondering why this happened.

The series shows the problem of this ideas that are on internet (won't mention names of creators, we all know), the Incel movement is the reinforcement of teen insecurity that drags to our adult years. To the men reading this, we all felt at one point ugly and rejected, like we just didn't deserve to be loved (yet did nothing to change it, it's quite common surprisingly), but as we learned to socialize, how necessary it was to go through school, college and then our jobs, we lose that, we get a personality that can work and some people may find that attractive, even beyond our physic, but of course we won't be able to be attractive for everyone.

(Many say the final chapter takes the cake, but this one was just tense)

This red pill is intoxicating young minds with gender separatism, saying that women and the whole world only knows about money and good looks and if you lack both, you're nothing. Sure, having these helps a lot, but it's not everything, a good personality and confidence open more doors, and that's what parents should strive to build on their children.

Note that the series' family is actually good, the dad has some slips, but nothing that serious, the problem is that families should know this pernicious speech is looming online and can get anyone, specially young kids.

With excellent acting, a masterful One-shot filming in every chapter and for exposing a though truth that has to be faced, this is one of the best series of this year without a doubt.