Written and created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, it is a gripping story of teenage murder which goes beyond the world of gangs and knife crime to pose the questions “who is responsible and could it have been prevented?”
Graham said: “One of our aims was to ask, ‘What is happening to our young men these days, and what are the pressures they face from their peers, from the internet, and from social media?’
Owen Cooper stars as 13-year-old Jamie Miller, who is accused of murder in Adolescence (Photo: Netflix)While Jamie’s story isn’t specifically based on a real person or event, the idea for the series did spring from reports Graham had heard on the news of young boys being involved in knife crime.
“It shocked me. I was thinking, ‘What’s going on? What’s happening in society where a boy stabs a girl to death? What’s the inciting incident here?’
“I really just wanted to shine a light on it, and ask, ‘Why is this happening today? What’s going on? How have we come to this?’ “
They started thinking about themselves as men, fathers, partners, and friends, and “questioning with some intensity” who they were as people and particularly as men.
Stephen Graham said the idea for the series sprang from reports of teenage murders (Photo: StillMoving.Net/Netflix)
What inspired the new Netflix drama?
Graham spoke in depth about his inspiration for the show at a Bafta Screening Q&A in London.
“Then, about three or four months later there was a piece on the news.
He said “it really hurt my heart”, not only as a parent but also as an indictment of our society.
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Among the influences put forward by the show is the rise in incel (involuntarily celibate) culture, an online movement of people who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner and blame, objectify and denigrate women and girls as a result.
“There’s failings within the school system, there’s situations where the education system can look at this, look at what’s happened with that kind of rise in these misogynistic tendencies.”
While the use of social media by children was a factor highlighted by co-writer Thorne.
“We need to be having those conversations in this country and we’re not.
“And if we don’t have these conversations, it is going to get worse.”
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