Adolescence on Netflix has fast become the most talked about TV show of 2025, with Stephen Graham’s new drama igniting much-needed conversations around corrosive social media misogyny and violence against girls. We get into it all from our review to the reception. First, though, a chat about polyamory, non-monogamy and what constitutes ‘cheating’ in light of Ne Yo’s polycule reveal and the fallout from Danny Jones and Maura Higgins’s Brit Awards kiss. And also this week: we debrief on publishing phenomenons Fourth Wing now that we’re both Rebecca Yarros converts, share a listener update on the Let Them theory and return yet again to crisis PR.
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Reviews/ recs:
- Still Bad, Lizzo
- The Dynamics Of This Relationship Will Expand Your Definition Of Black Love, Huffington Post
- Mel Robbins and Plagiarism, Sage Justice, Substack
- Let Them: Words for the Healing Soul by Cassie Phillips
- Flack, BBC iPlayer
- Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros
- Rebecca Yarros on Navigating Fame and What to Expect From ‘Onyx Storm’, Elle
- Rebecca Yarros Talks ‘Onyx Storm’, Variety
- Adolescence, Netflix
- Netflix drama Adolescence has lessons for us all about alienated young men, Observer
- Ctrl Hate Delete by Cecile Simmons
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