Netta Ulaby

Yeah.

I mean, the racial politics of this, it felt very unformed in some ways.

And there were some Asian characters, but they were, as so often, are completely unimportant and marginalized.

You know, there's a black character and a bunch of white characters and, you know, the South Asian characters, the Asian characters, they were kind of just props.

You know, I didn't find it particularly homoerotic at all, to be honest.

Partly because the kids were so young.

I didn't find it even remotely sexual.

The parts when they're finding the clothes and trying them on, I found that just more as, you know, flaunting taboos.

I didn't get that vibe.

In the Brooke version, by the way, they're older.

I would say that there's a little bit more of that in the Brooke version.

But, you know, I think this is one of those things that's open to interpretation.

Yeah, there is something, Glenn.

One of the reasons why I was really looking forward to Lord of the Flies was it was created by Jack Thorne, who was the co-creator of Adolescence.

And both of those stories are nightmares about the kind of violence that boys are capable of.

You know, one of them, the Adolescence actually seemed far more political and of the moment to me.

It's about systems of surveillance.

The crime is recorded by CCTV.

There are schools and there's therapists and there's police and there's even personal computers that are monitoring the actions and the behaviors of the boy in question and his family.

Lord of the Flies takes place in a place with zero surveillance where individuals can run amok without any repercussion.