TV series

Kids

1979 · 1 season

A sombre, quietly harrowing look at damaged childhoods, played with documentary-like restraint that lingers long after each hour ends.

Overview: Series based around a fictional assessment centre for children who have been taken into care and their own individual stories. The stories themselves are based on real life cases.
How it feels: Bleak, melancholic, earnest and tense. Measured and needs your attention.
About: Family, trauma, isolation, class
Content: Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
Note: Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

Your rating is saved. See your suggestions, or find titles like this one below.

Rate it, and Mesmero finds titles that feel like it. You do not need an account.

Add to a list: Kids

In the USNo streaming, rental or purchase options known.

In your watch list

More like this

Like Kids, but

Written by AI. It can be wrong.

Full breakdown

Tone: bleakstrength 2 of 3
melancholicstrength 2 of 3
earneststrength 2 of 3
tensestrength 1 of 3
Pacing: measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention: engaged, 3 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes: family
trauma
isolation
class
healing
Places: workplace
single country house
Era: contemporary
Audience: adult
Form: procedural
serialised
true story
Content intensity: Gore none
Language mild
Violence mild
Sex mild