With ‘Adolescence,’ TV Has Given Incel Culture a Much-Needed Face

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The Netflix original is already educating leaders and everyday viewers about an online community with an alarming history of violence

Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller in Adolescence
Owen Cooper in "Adolescence." (Netflix)

In “Adolescence,” there are no clear answers for why 13-year-old Jamie (Owen Cooper) murdered a female classmate. Yet in the final moments of Netflix’s hit limited series, Jamie’s parents shakily point at one culprit: Jamie’s online life. 

“Look at that fella who popped up on my phone, going on about how to treat women and how men should be men and all that s–t,” Jamie’s father Eddie (Stephen Graham) says to his wife Manda (Christine Tremarco), in one of several offhand references to Andrew Tate, a self-proclaimed misogynist with a huge online following. “You can’t keep an eye on them all the time, love.

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