| Netflix | Season Premiere Date: March 13, 2025 |
Summary:
13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is accused of murdering a classmate in the four-part limited series co-created and written by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne. Each episode was filmed in one continuous take.
Genre(s):
Drama, Movie/Mini-Series
Season 1 Episodes
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Mar 31, 2025
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 13, 2025
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Mar 12, 2025
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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Sep 4, 2025
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Mar 14, 2025
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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Air Date: March 13, 2025
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