Straight Up Adolescence, Fourth Wing and what ‘really’ counts as cheating
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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