One of the most harrowing miniseries in recent memory comes to Netflix on March 13: Adolescence. The U.K.-set series follows Jamie—a 13-year-old boy who is accused of stabbing a female classmate to death—across four single-take episodes as he is questioned by police, evaluated by a psychologist, and jailed while he awaits trial.
Adolescence is co-created by Stephen Graham, who also stars as Jamie’s father, as a response to the rise of knife crime in the U.K. The must-watch series will break your heart as it aims to interrogate masculinity and what causes this type of violence, without leaning on tropes we’ve seen before. “The dad is not violent, the mom is not an alcoholic, he’s not been abused or molested. How can we look at what’s happening to young boys today in our society if we take away the things we would normally construct a drama around?” Graham told the Los Angeles Times.
