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The Kids Aren’t Alright: ‘Adolescence’s Stephen Graham, Cast & Co-Creators Reveal The Story Behind The World-Changing Show
The 'Adolescense' team Stephen Graham, Philip Barantini and Jack Thorne on making the record-setting series about teen violence.
He highlights the example of Episode 1, where a number of stories are told, such as Walters’ DI Bascombe and his partner, detective sergeant Misha Frank, played by Faye Marsay, leading a police raid into the Miller household to arrest Jamie, and then interviewing him alongside his father Eddie and his solicitor. In Adolescence, it’s never a gimmick, as highlighted by its devastating use in the fourth and final episode as Graham’s Eddie and his wife and daughter drive to local hardware store Wainwrights after his van is graffitied with the word ‘Nonse’ — a moment, soundtracked by Aha’s “Take on Me”, where they’re trying to get their day (and life) back. It had a starry cast with the likes of Doctor Who’s Jodie Whittaker, The White Lotus’ Aimee Lou Wood, The Full Monty’s Robert Carlyle and The Diplomat’s Rory Kinnear, and was produced by Black Mirror duo Charlie Brooker and Annabel Jones.
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