# Adolescence (2025)

> A 13-year-old boy is accused of murdering a classmate, and his family, a psychologist and a detective must confront what really happened.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/164442

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 4
- Episode runtime: 61 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: crime, drama
- Created by: Stephen Graham, Jack Thorne
- Network: Netflix
- Cast: Alfie Ward, Kaine Davis, Emilia Holliday, Anne Hornby, Bidi Iredale, Jay Johnson, Fatima Bojang, Amari Bacchus
- TMDB rating: 8.1/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt31806037/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: brisk
- Intensity: extreme
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: tense, harrowing, sorrowful, unsparing, claustrophobic

## What critics say

Viewers broadly regard the miniseries as a harrowing, emotionally powerful drama about a child accused of murder and the family and institutions left to answer for it.

## Synopsis

Adolescence (2025) is a British-American crime drama miniseries created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne for Netflix. Across four feature-length episodes, a thirteen-year-old boy is arrested for the murder of a classmate, and the story follows his stunned parents, a psychological expert and the detective in charge as each tries to work out what really happened. Stephen Graham and a strong ensemble cast carry the drama, with Bidi Iredale playing Eileen among the principal family members. The engine of the series is the slow, painful search for truth inside a family and a school where everyone has missed the warning signs. Each episode unfolds in a single extended take, so the camera stays close to the characters through interrogations, kitchen-table arguments and corridor confrontations. Set in contemporary England, it is a limited series that works as a grounded social drama, a bleak procedural and a meditation on how online misogyny and peer pressure shape young men. The tone is tense, sorrowful and unsparing, with a sense of dread that lingers. Fans of Broadchurch, This Is England and The Missing will find resonance in its British realism, emotional fallout and unflinching portrait of a community in grief.

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