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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Mark Lawson

Adolescence, the backlash: the nightmare of making hit TV in terrifying times

Life imitates drama … Owen Cooper and Stephen Graham in Adolescence.
Life imitates drama … Owen Cooper and Stephen Graham in Adolescence. Photograph: Courtesy of Netflix

Strangers turning up at your house, a vehicle vandalised, violent commentary online, eyes tracking you as you shop – the last episode of Adolescence chillingly shows the modern consequences of sudden public attention.

But the creators of the Netflix show – already seeming certain to sweep the prizes in next year’s TV awards – have, in an upsetting case of life imitating drama, experienced something of this attention (although without, we hope, the criminal elements).

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