As the mom of two boys, Netflix's popular show "Adolescence," about a 13-year-old accused of murder, made me mad.

I can see why the show is popular, garnering more than 66 million views in its first two weeks on the streaming site and a 99% score on Rotten Tomatoes. The story about Jamie, who is arrested in the stabbing death of a teenage girl from his school, is sinister and haunting.

The four-part series is beautifully shot, and the acting is superb − Owen Cooper who plays Jamie is extraordinary. The show taps into gut-wrenching issues: parents' worst fears for their children and the online world's allure and dangers for boys. But the real point isn't about parenting, grief or even violence.

"Adolescence" promotes a political agenda, and the narrative is built around that. It's a screed about toxic masculinity with a 13-year-old child at its center. Through vignettes about his home life with two flawed but loving parents, school friends and interviews with professionals about his behavior, "Adolescence" makes boys and men out to be problematic, susceptible to toxicity online and seemingly destined for violence.

The series tries to serve as a warning, and the questions it raises are good. But the answers that the series lands on are where it veers off course.

Jamie appears to........

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