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Harrowing drama Adolescence has been described as “flawless” by critics and won five-star reviews for its depiction of a teenage murder.

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.

Lucy Mangan, writing for The Guardian, said the show’s “technical accomplishments – each episode is done in a single take – are matched by an array of award-worthy performances”.

While Deadline’s Jake Kanter wrote on social media: “Adolescence is as flawless a four hours of TV drama I have ever seen.

“It lingers in the mind long after the credits have rolled.

“Astonishing telly.”

It was written in the wake of a spate of teenage killings in the UK, in an attempt to explore why they are happening.

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.

Adolescence premiered on Netflix on Thursday 13 March, with all four installments available to stream.

Subsequent comments from the show’s creators do contain spoilers.

By the end of the first episode of Adolescence it becomes apparent 13-year-old Jamie Miller has killed his fellow school pupil Katie.

Detectives release CCTV footage showing Jamie stabbing Katie seven times in a car park.

But it takes until the end of episode four before Jamie tells his father Eddie Miller that he has decided to change his plea to guilty.

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.

He said: “We wanted the audience to be on Jamie’s side and think, ‘Oh my God, this arrest is terrible. There’s no way he’s done this.”

So the detailed and gruesome CCTV footage of the killing comes as a shock to both Eddie and the audience.

It also changes the expectation of the viewers from answers about who did it to why they did it.

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.

“Questions like, ‘What’s going on within our teenage boys?’ Phil, Stephen, and I are looking at masculinity — thinking about ourselves as men, the kinds of fathers, partners, and friends we are, and questioning with some intensity who we are as people.”

Episodes two and three explore the reasons why Jamie carried out the murder.

A combination of factors appear at play contributing to Jamie’s actions including his own lack of self-esteem, perceived bullying at school and access to online incel (involuntarily celibate) propaganda.

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.

Use of social media is also seen to play a part in the build-up to the killing.

Jamie had asked Katie out but she rejected him, later mocking his action with a series of emojis.

Then Katie publicly accuses Jamie of being an incel on Instagram, which both embarrasses and enrages him. Soon after, he stabs her.

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.

Director Barantini said: “To be with the family again is the emotional draw of the series.

“Each individual member of the Millers is trying to hold the other one up. And in turn, they’re actually breaking each other down.

“It’s really heart-wrenching to watch this family falling apart.”

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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.

And they try to move on by marking Eddie’s 50th birthday.

Ultimately, the blame is not laid at the family’s door.

“I wanted to eliminate the possibility of thinking Eddie is a violent man,” Graham said.

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.”

Both Jamie’s mother Manda and sister Lisa are also exonerated.

“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.

“His sister is most likely to succeed within her class.”

But in the second half of the final episode, Jamie calls his dad to tell him he has decided to plead guilty.

And in the final scene, Eddie is seen re-entering his son’s childhood bedroom where he kisses his son’s teddy bear, apologising to it as though it was Jamie, then breaks down and weeps wracked with grief and guilt.

Thorne said: “You’re understanding the final part of Jamie.

“You’re getting a new perspective on Eddie – the complicated vision of Eddie.

“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?

Netflix has made no announcements about plans for a second season of the show despite its success.

When it was released by the streaming service, it was billed as a four-part limited series.

Discussing the ending to the show, Graham said the intention was always to bring viewers back full circle to Jamie’s bedroom where his story had begun and draw it to a clear, natural conclusion.

He said: “We knew that we wanted to end it in that room.

“We wanted the journey to finish where it began.

“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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