Aged 16, all anyone wants to do is blend in. Seven years later, I thought I had blocked out the memory of a toe-curlingly awkward encounter over lunch in the first term at my new sixth form, but it came flooding back to me in mortifying full colour when watching a particular scene (I won’t reveal which) from Tell Me Everything, a new ITV teen drama to be released on the broadcaster’s streaming channel ITVX.
The six-part series follows the lives of 16-year-old Jonny Murphy (newcomer Eden H Davies) and his childhood best friends Neve (Lauryn Ajufo) and Louis (Spike Fearn) in the Hertfordshire commuter town of Welwyn Garden City (home of the show’s writer Mark O’Sullivan) as they navigate the messy and confusing world of adolescence. On the surface, Jonny is carefree. He is the life and soul of the party, but it quickly becomes clear that he, like many of the show’s characters, is struggling behind closed doors, and a tragedy that strikes in the first episode forces him to confront the barely-contained angst threatening to tip him over the edge.
