Critic's Notebook: GoodBoys and the rise of the gritty middle-school comedy
to hilarious effect. But these darker visions of the middle school era are providing more than just funny/lewd/shocking stories about coming of age — they're stealthily examining how technology and social politics are forcing kids to grow up earlier than they've ever had to.were born no earlier than 2007. Take that in for a moment. Not only have these kids never known life before the Internet; they've never known life before smartphones and social media.
It's not just merely funny or transgressive to watch kids perform as adults . Instead, we're watching technological dystopia in action while the Internet becomes their lubricant to accessing a world beyond the safety-zone of their friendship. It's the same tool that nearly destroysunrealistic expectations about sex and relationships and exposes, but they're also being pushed through these changes thanks to the total accessibility of the information age.
Please don't mistake me for a luddite, as I believe the moral panic over screen time is a monolithic scapegoat masking a combination of factors that have lead to a generation of unhappy, anxiety-prone youth. (Try
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