Thirteen-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is in his pyjamas in a space-themed bedroom, when armed police smash through his front door in a dawn raid.
We, the viewer of Netflix’s Adolescence, follow the officers with bulletproof vests and guns in real time, as the schoolboy and his family are left shocked and terrified. Up the stairs, and into the bedroom, back down and into the van. “Did this really happen?” wrote confused social media users as a behind-the-scenes trailer for the show was released this week.
