For those of you raising young children, it would have been a difficult watch. Even the show’s writer, Jack Thorne, voiced that same dread in a BBC Radio 2 interview with Jo Whiley. In February 2024, a group of parents launched Smartphone Free Childhood, a movement that has since grown to over 160,000 members. When we talk to friends raising children in their tweens, the consensus is often the same: many intend to hold off on giving their kids phones until much later in their teens. How does a loving parent say no when all their kids’ friends have one?