What do you mean? If it was punching, then it was punching down, surely?
This is a larger issue, which is really outside the scope of this thread.
Re adolescence, if you want to read a review from a Genuine Incel™ who did watch the show, I can paste a suitably broken link. Obviously this is a biased source, but he’s also in a far better position to judge how accurate it was than any of us.
Politicians overreact to single crimes, or presumed patterns of crimes, pretty regularly. Overreacting to a fictional crime is a new low. The UK has become notably anti-freedom over the last few years. 