Ive started watching Mae Martin's Waywards on Netflix and holy shit what the hell. I'm only on episode four and it has me in the edge of my seat
If you dont do well with depictions of abuse (so far it's mostly psychological/emotional/spiritual abuse) particularly of teenagers, then I would steer clear because this show is heavy. The hot seat scene in episode three is gut wrenching and heart pounding. I kept just going "why are you letting this happen? Why won't you stop this? This is so bad and dangerous" when that is literally the whole point just for it to end in them being love bombed with their only acceptable form of touch that they are allowed to receive
So much of what they do goes just so far against what my understanding of best educational practices are. Yeah, what a great environment you have built for your students here, one where you sit them in a circle and allow them to hurl abuses at each other and if they object to the process then it becomes worse and even more targeted until they are forced to accept the abuse and verbally thank the group for it. Everything in me was just screaming the whole fucking time because how is this healthy communication? How is this not just asking for a fight??
And the answer is, of course, that there abuse and lovebombing and all of it is the point to make them reliant on the authority figures for everything that they do. To break down the trust between students so that they cannot truly process that anything is wrong and that they can do anything about it
And i know that it's not real, but i really want to know the suicide rates of their graduates because these are not teenagers being prepared for life