FX’s ‘Social Studies’ Is a Devastating Exploration of Teenhood in the Age of Social Media: TV Review
variety.comAramide Tinubu Social media feels like it has always been here. From Instagram to TikTok, many of us spend a portion of our day mindlessly — or intentionally — scrolling through these platforms.
But it wasn’t always like this. Facebook started just 20 years ago, and most millennials (and older people) can pinpoint the moment they first made their accounts.
But Gen Z and the generations after have very different perspectives. In her new FX series, “Social Studies,” documentarian Lauren Greenfield examines social media’s harrowing and horrifying effects on a group of Los Angeles teenagers who have never known a world without it.
Engrossing and troubling, the docuseries presents a time capsule of today while allowing the teens to speak for themselves. “Social Studies” begins during the first week of school in late summer/fall of 2021.
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