The four-part Netflix series filmed in one continuous shot is “enough to send chills down any parent’s spine”, according to The i Paper’s TV Editor Emily Baker.
While Deadline’s Jake Kanter wrote on social media: “Adolescence is as flawless a four hours of TV drama I have ever seen.
“Astonishing telly.”
Now the show’s creators, Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne, and director Philip Barantini have explained some of the motivations behind this particular fictional murder and what it does to those caught up in it.
Subsequent comments from the show’s creators do contain spoilers.
Owen Cooper as 13-year-old Jamie Miller in ‘Adolescence’ (Photo: Netflix)Detectives release CCTV footage showing Jamie stabbing Katie seven times in a car park.
Graham told Netflix’s Tudum at the start of Adolescence the intention was the audience would believe a 13-year-old boy like Jamie could never be capable of such a crime.
So the detailed and gruesome CCTV footage of the killing comes as a shock to both Eddie and the audience.
Stephen Graham as Eddie Miller, left, with his son Jamie Miller, played by Owen Cooper (Photo: Netflix)
Thorne said: “Telling a drama that’s a why-done-it, rather than a whodunit, hopefully engages people in different questions.
Episodes two and three explore the reasons why Jamie carried out the murder.
Incel is 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.
Jamie had asked Katie out but she rejected him, later mocking his action with a series of emojis.
Jamie Miller becomes enraged after he is mocked by the girl he had asked out (Photo: Netflix)
What happens at the end of Adolescence?
The final episode of Adolescence deals with the impact of the killing on the Miller family, the “ripple effect of this heinous act” as Graham described it.
“Each individual member of the Millers is trying to hold the other one up. And in turn, they’re actually breaking each other down.
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They discuss whether to move away from their hometown for a fresh start. Parents Eddie and Manda are forced to confront their own parenting methods and if they had any impact on Jamie’s actions, including his unmonitored computer usage.
Ultimately, the blame is not laid at the family’s door.
He added that Eddie is “a hard-working father who goes to work early in the morning, comes back late at night, and puts food on the table. Eddie brings in as much love as he can. He does to the best of his ability.”
“I wanted Jamie’s mum not to be an alcoholic in any way, shape, or form,” said Graham, adding: “She’s just a hardworking woman.
But in the second half of the final episode, Jamie calls his dad to tell him he has decided to plead guilty.
Jamie’s bedroom (Photo: Netflix)Thorne said: “You’re understanding the final part of Jamie.
“You need to understand how he allowed his son to become absent, what Eddie taught his son, and what he didn’t teach his son.”
Will there be an Adolescence season 2?
When it was released by the streaming service, it was billed as a four-part limited series.
He said: “We knew that we wanted to end it in that room.
“This is where the person who Jamie became was created.”
And in an emotionally wrought final scene, this is exactly what happens.
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