Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne has reacted to the “absurd” suggestion that the hit Netflix drama was based on a real crime committed by a Black child, a conspiracy theory that had been promoted by Elon Musk.
The four-part series follows the family of 13-year-old schoolboy, Jamie Miller (played by Owen Cooper), who is accused of the brutal murder of a young girl. Last week, a post on Musk’s social media site X claimed that Adolescence is based on “real life cases such as the Southport murderer.”
