Everyone has been watching Netflix's latest hit series which has received a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score
Loose Women's Katie Piper said "it's skewed" after watching Netflix's latest hit series Adolescence which received a perfect 100% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The crime drama centres around 13-year-old Jamie who is arrested on suspicion of murdering a schoolmate. It's a difficult watch as Jamie is bought into the police station as he's questioned about his potential involvement in the fatal stabbing of a young girl in his class.
Just four episodes long, the hard-hitting series is designed to making an impact on viewers as it tackles the growing rise of misogyny in young men due to the online content they are being exposed to. It was dubbed a "must watch" by many viewers after it first aired on the streaming platform.
Stephen Graham said he was inspired to make the show after seeing two separate reports of boys stabbing girls to death. "I just thought, what's going on in society where this kind of thing is becoming a regular occurrence?" he told BBC's The One Show.
He continued: "I just couldn't fathom it. So I wanted to really have a look and try and shine a light on this particular thing." Writer Jack Thorne said they wanted to "look in the eye of male rage".
The central character had been "indoctrinated by voices" like Andrew Tate's and "voices a lot more dangerous than Andrew Tate's", Thorne told Radio 4's Front Row.
During Tuesday's (18th March) installment, Katie Piper told the panel she had watched three of the episodes and labelled the show as showing "a different type of misogyny led by people like Andrew Tate."
She also pointed out that it was the "first drama of its kind" to showcase this type of behaviour and to criticise it, as she asked if parents are really knowledgeable of what their children are exposed to online. The star also admitted: "As a mother of two young girls, it frightened me watching it and then I thought also if I had a son how I would feel, how vulnerable that boy would be online up in his bedroom."
As Gloria Hunniford acknowledged that Andrew Tate's behaviour "appalled" her, she continued: "You can have the best parents in the world but when I hear those stories I think young people are going to be sucked in".
Katie responded that this type of content offers a "skewed look into relationships and love" as highlighted by Adolescence that tackled the rise of "red pill content" head on.
Katie Piper was the victim of a misogynistic attack in 2008 when an ex-boyfriend orchestrated a premeditated attack that involved throwing acid in her face.
After the attack in 2008, she lost sight in one eye but doctors at the Queen Victoria Hospital in East Grinstead, West Sussex, restored it. She set up her own foundation aimed at making it easier to live with burns and scars.
In 2009, she made a Channel 4 documentary about her experience called Katie: My Beautiful Face and was made an OBE in 2021 in honour of her services to charity and victims of burns and other disfigurement injuries.
Loose Women airs on weekdays from 12:30pm on ITV1 and is available to stream on ITVX.
