Within a week of its debut, “Adolescence” became Netflix’s top-charting TV show, with critics and viewers lauding it as a critique on social media-boosted toxic masculinity and its role in the teenage experience. It’s one of the first scripted projects to confront the rising cultural influence of the “manosphere,” a network of online spaces that promote rigid notions of masculinity and espouse misogynistic stereotypes about women. How do we stop boys harming girls?” Thorne said. “Those conversations, it takes all of us to have them.