This is one intense show.  If the first episode is indicative of the whole series, this is going to be an emotional roller coaster.

Not specifically step related but certainly some parallels to what parents in general and far too many SParents struggle with regarding early teens and beyond.

The key for me so far, part way through episode 2, is that these ill behaved kids, nearly an entire school of them, would have been filleted by teachers applying paddles to asses, their phones confiscated (we did not have them), and then finished off by their parents when they got home.  While the specific plot is disturbing, it is the mass behavior of the middle school kids that stands out to me as specifically disturbing.  The teachers have no control, it is all about coddle, then yell, with the kids running amok.  No structure, no accountability, until a tragedy hits.  Even then, the inmates are running the asylum. 

Parents are clueless until it is too late.

So far, all of us STalkers are reasonably lucky that our kids/Skids have not degraded to the level of depravity that the primary character in this show has.