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Who would have thought that watching the police raid a home to arrest 13-year-old boys would become a familiar cliché? For those familiar with it, that's how you could describe the opening sequence of the hit Netflix series, Adolescence. However, I now have the (dis)honor of saying that I've seen two series that start the same way, though one is much better than the other, and I'll leave it to you to guess. Imagine, at 13 years old, finding yourself in a juvenile detention center because your mother called the police, and then growing up to become a stand-up comedian, writing material based on your trauma. That's the basic premise of Bad Boy, a new Hebrew-language series on Netflix that has apparently won a ton of awards. Despite having watched it without prejudice, I can't help but admit that I found it tremendously disappointing and utterly incoherent. In theory, this story definitely sounds intriguing. Just as we were eager to see the consequences of a 13-year-ol...