Adolescence: Brilliant TV or WOKE Propaganda?
The Jon Gaunt Show
Jon Gaunt
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 6 April 2025
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Adolescence: Brilliant TV or WOKE Propaganda?
In this video, Jon Gaunt debates Netflix's latest hit series, Adolescence, and asks the tough questions: Is it a true reflection of modern-day Britain, or is it a form of WOKE propaganda?
Led by Stephen Graham, Adolescence portrays a grim reality for young boys today, but does it reflect the real challenges they're facing, such as the influence of figures like Andrew Tate, the rise of incels, and increasing violence in schools?
Some critics argue that the film presents a false and woke depiction of the issues surrounding youth violence in Britain as the family is white. Jon also discusses the troubling portrayal of misogyny, toxic masculinity, and the fatal stabbings carried out by young men in the UK, questioning whether it accurately reflects reality.
As Adolescence sparks debates over the responsibility of new media, Gaunty also tackles questions on whether more male teachers and extra-curricular activities are the solution, and if banning smartphones could be a step towards protecting kids. Should Keir Starmer fund the film’s showing in schools, and is this the Cathy Come Home moment of the 21st century?
Join us for a thought-provoking discussion on whether Adolescence is brilliant TV or harmful fiction.
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Adolescence Netflix, WOKE propaganda, Stephen Graham, UK politics, toxic masculinity, Andrew Tate, incel threat, male teachers in schools, adolescent violence, UK stabbings, media influence, Keir Starmer, free speech debate, boys and smartphones, extracurricular activities, Cathy Come Home, Netflix series review, modern Britain TV, youth culture, UK media.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, the program everybody's talking about, the TV show, Adolescence, is it brilliant TV or purely woke propaganda? |
| 0:13.8 | I'm going to try and persuade you that it's definitely brilliant TV. |
| 0:17.8 | It's the best thing that's been on telly since things like boys from the black stuff, |
| 0:22.8 | GBAH, stuff like that. It is just outstanding. Brilliant performances, especially from the |
| 0:28.7 | little boy, but also Stephen Graham, and the woman out of 10-pound poms. I don't know what her name is. |
| 0:34.5 | And the woman who plays the psychiatrist. For me, it had a real relevance. |
| 0:39.8 | If you've seen it, you know, in episode three when the little boy is being questioned, |
| 0:44.8 | the 13-year-old guy accused of murder, that was me. |
| 0:49.6 | I've been in one of those or several of those assessments from my dad dumped me in a children's home |
| 0:55.4 | at the age of 13 as well. I thought the lad portrayed it brilliantly the way he was completely |
| 1:02.5 | lost. He kind of knew what she was getting at, but he wasn't sure. I'll talk more about that |
| 1:07.8 | in the moment because I want to talk about, I know it wasn't about kids in care, |
| 1:12.4 | but it just brought home to me more and more the fact the 60 or 70,000 children in residential care at the moment. |
| 1:22.0 | No one's special to wrap them up at night when they're going to bed. |
| 1:24.8 | No one to say, how did you get on today? |
| 1:27.7 | And that's just in England and Wales. |
| 1:29.8 | Just think of that. |
| 1:31.0 | 60, 70,000 kids. |
| 1:33.6 | I got the sack for talking about this before on Talk Sport. |
| 1:37.6 | They wanted me to be controversial. |
| 1:39.7 | I was just being me saying I thought it was wrong because some bloke wanted stop parents have |
| 1:45.5 | smoking foster parents who are adoptive parents and I said well kids would be left in care |
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