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Critic Reviews
The PlaylistMar 31, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Every second that passes on the mini-series feels like it belongs, with no time wasted, and a sensation is felt upon a difficult-to-describe conclusion. It could very well be what someone emerging from the other side of trauma can only begin to articulate, or possibly this is what’s left behind in the wake of viewing landmark television. “Adolescence” is just that.
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Mar 27, 2025
Mar 14, 2025
Season 1 Review:
An emotional powerhouse that sneaks up and floors you. The young TV season sets a new gold standard with a drama series that is sure to rank with the year's very best. Polish up Emmys for Stephen Graham and Owen Cooper as the father and son at the heart of a tragedy.
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The TimesMar 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Adolescence (Netflix) is brilliant. I can put it no other way. Every beat, every remark, every glance between characters, every angry or teary outburst in this four-part drama — each episode shot in one continuous take — is laden with authenticity and it is terrifying. .... A storytelling masterclass.
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Radio TimesMar 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Quibbles aside, Adolescence has already cemented itself as one of the year's most impressive shows, with many an award surely coming its way, and its importance cannot be overstated. Graham and Thorne's drama should be mandatory viewing, particularly for boys and their parents; Adolescence should be added to the national curriculum without delay.
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iMar 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
It’s nothing less than a miracle that the storytelling shines through the chaos of a very realistic high school. But it’s the third episode that makes Adolescence such an unsettling, chilling watch. .... Erin Doherty (A Thousand Blows, The Crown) gives an outstanding performance as one shrink, the whole episode swirling around her conversation with her subject. Cooper, too, is marvellous.
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IndieWireMar 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Rather than ask who among us could be capable of such violence, the series examines why so many boys are growing up to be angry, misogynistic men. That means less of a focus on mystery and more attention to societal issues, but the relentless pace and commanding performances are powerful enough to overwhelm any sense of absence.
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Mar 12, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The choreography of camera and bodies, should you care to contemplate it, is remarkable, navigating crowds and corridors and public places with impossible grace. Long, uninterrupted scenes also allow a superb cast to dive into character and the moment. .... And if the series doesn’t wind down to a traditional conclusion, it achieves a novelistic power in the end.
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Mar 11, 2025
Season 1 Review:
The performances here are superb, with varsity weeping and real sense of heft and verisimilitude. Is it a weird time to engage in recreational misery? When there’s so much free, ambient despair to go around? Yeah, probably, but “Adolescence” is not agony for agony’s sake. It uses its pain and shock as a side door into interesting questions and social critiques.
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Mar 13, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Because of the shooting style, each promises to have the same intensity as the first episode, and we’re looking forward to seeing just how the case — which at first blush, looks like it’s a pretty strong one against Jamie — tests everyone involved, and their perceptions of just who is capable of horrific acts like Katie’s murder.
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The Mercury NewsMar 13, 2025
Mar 14, 2025
Season 1 Review:
Unfortunately, “Adolescence” ’s flashy, fragmentary approach undermines its attempts to illuminate. .... The series opts to focus more on the societal factors that make such a killing plausible than on Jamie’s specific desires and concerns, its perspective is only ever that of an outsider. And though it pays lip service to Katie’s neglected humanity, its true sympathy lies less with the victim than with the grownup bystanders trying to make sense of it all.
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