Television: Jordan Conroy presents show exploring toxic masculinity, but what is RTÉ trying to say?
movie was its takedown of toxic masculinity – a damaging worldview that held poor Ken in its pincer grip until he recognised the only person he had anything to prove to was himself. The approval of his “bro” friends was meaningless, and how freeing it was to realise that. Kenough was kenough – and, once Ken comprehended this, he was on the road to becoming a happier, better person., wrestles with similar themes.
They are introduced to Paralympic table tennis player Colin Judge and later divided into sides for a game of rounders. They have great fun, but the series is never explicit about what it is attempting to achieve. Are the kids supposed to learn life lessons about winning and losing? To bond as a team? All sorts of ideas – boys don’t cry, etc – are put in front of us yet never satisfactorily unpacked.
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