James Poniewozik

I hope it doesn't take as long coming back.

Yeah, I will say, you know, I love experimentation.

I love a wild idea.

But there is still pleasure in just a hospital show done well.

So well.

I think it would stress... You know, my take on it was that, you know, for parents of kids, particularly male kids of a certain age, this was like the day after, you know, people just watched and discussed it in these sort of, like, hushed, traumatized terms.

And it's essentially a four-part story

miniseries about an adolescent who is arrested on suspicion of murder in a case that turns out to be the result or a consequence of online bullying and social media pressures and kind of just becomes this investigation of what

What are the little screens in our pockets doing to all of our kids?

I will say, critically, as a whole, it's quite an achievement.

We haven't even mentioned that I believe every episode was shot in a single take, which is kind of an interesting technical experiment that lends it kind of vitality.

There's a bit of like an after-school special vibe to it for me.

There's also a fantastic episode three that is just sort of a two-hander dialogue entirely between the accused young child and a social worker, basically, in custody that was just like watching a great, well-produced, explosive piece of theater in front of you.

Did you watch this one?

Like TV news theme-like.

Clearly, I've been doing a lot of skip credits this year.

Okay.

Fun.

That's a great one.

That's the Flintstones and the Jetsons.