Adolescence is a fantastic, albeit flawed, four-part limited series that delves into misogyny, into male violence, into toxic masculinity, into incel culture - episode 3 in particular is a brilliant study in this, every word, every movement, every facial expression counts and does indeed paint a picture into this thirteen-year-old boy's mind, yes, but also how these things look generally in action, in dialogue, in movement - (and the show touches upon the education system, the criminal system, etc.) and yet this series that takes great pains to explore Atwood's "Men are afraid that women will laugh at them. Women are afraid that men will kill them", it sidelines its female characters and most especially Katie. Like I get what they were doing, I get that the show was also illustrating how society can turn girls and women into footnotes or villains in their own tragedies and it does a great job in doing that but just because the show is framing, exploring, exposing, portraying the inherent misogyny and sexism, doesn't mean that the show itself also has to forget Katie, doesn't mean that we also have to be denied her story. I recommend everyone watch it, I do think we need to evolve past using a dead female character to nearly-exclusively explore the psyche of the male protagonist and in this case, a murdered female character and her murderer. Which again isn't to say that we shouldn't have gotten the exploration of Jamie, we most certainly should have, but we should've gotten an exploration of Katie too. Isn't that the point?