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Netflix’s One-Take Drama ‘Adolescence’ Is a Gutting Account of Murder, Misogyny and Teen Fragility: TV Review
In Netflix's "Adolescence," Stephen Graham stars as devastated father whose 13-year old son has been accused of murding his female classmate.
Throughout the grim and unrelenting first episode, the audience walks through the entire morning, which begins just before 6:00 am and ends around 7:12 am, when Jamie’s interview with Bascombe, Frank, his assigned lawyer Paul Bellow (Mark Stanley) and Eddie, who acts as his son’s appropriate adult, concludes. On this particular day, he’s delighted by the arrival of Briony Ariston ( Erin Doherty reuniting with Graham and Walters from Hulu’s “A Thousand Blows”), a child psychologist working to assess his mental state and present her findings to a judge. Dark and brilliantly written, this show unpacks the complexities of humanity and manhood and how the rise of the manosphere has so eerily and quickly permeated itself into the lives of young people through social media.
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