Adolescence: Get a First Look at Real-Time, ‘One-Shot’ Netflix Crime Drama
What do you get when you cross 24 with the Daredevil hallway fight scene? And mix in some One of Us Is Lying?
The result might look a bit like Adolescence, a UK crime drama set to debut on Netflix in 2025 — and which revealed some first-look photos above and below.
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Adolescence tells the story of how a family’s world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller (played by newcomer Owen Cooper) is arrested for the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school. Stephen Graham (Code 404) plays Jamie’s father Eddie, Ashley Walters (Top Boy) stars as Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe, and Erin Doherty (The Crown) plays Briony Ariston, the clinical psychologist assigned to Jamie’s case.
In the four-part limited series co-created by Graham and directed by Philip Barantini, each episode is filmed in “one unflinching continuous shot, holding focus on the main characters and the unparalleled drama as it unfolds in real time.” (Barantini and Graham previously collaborated on the BAFTA- and BIFA-nominated feature Boiling Point, which was acclaimed for its one continuous shot.)
The Adolescence cast also includes Faye Marsay (Andor), Christine Tremarco (Emmerdale Farm), Mark Stanley (Sanditon), Jo Hartley (After Life) and newcomer Amélie Pease.
Graham and Jack Thorne (The Swimmers) co-created and wrote Adolescence, and served as executive producers alongside Barantini, Mark Herbert, Emily Feller, Hannah Walters, Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner and Nina Wolarsky.
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