Overview

• The French Education Ministry secured rights from the series’ producer to offer five educational sequences to secondary school students aged around 14.
• The sequences are designed to raise awareness of online misogyny, screen overexposure and the trivialization of violence on social media.
• The initiative follows a similar programme launched by the UK government with support from Prime Minister Keir Starmer.
• 'Adolescence' depicts the aftermath of a schoolgirl’s fatal stabbing by a 13-year-old boy radicalized online.
• As of June 1, 'Adolescence' reached 141.2 million views, making it Netflix’s second-most watched English-language series ever.