Netflix – “Adolescence”: grab your collar

It is two things that are currently going to hope. First of all, the fact that the much-cited citizen collective is proving his maturity and forced Elon Musk’s Tesla share. Secondly, it is the enormous success of the British social thriller »Adolescence«, a series that is primarily supported by empathy. A human resource that is not only becoming more and more scarce, but the car dealer mentioned above is actively combated because it allegedly seals the sinking of the West.

Over 66 million people worldwide looked at the British four-piece about the murder of a student by a 13-year-old boy on Netflix. It is the most successful mini series in the streaming portal, which had recently driven customers to compete with plenty of slow burn and otherwise pulled in length. The story also takes time in “Adolescence”, but uses it for dramaturgy, acting and mental depth.

»Adolescence« From the first second, pack our attention to the collar, to which the camera in the neck of the police officer is also clawing at the beginning of the first episode. From there she loosens, drives over his shoulder and is right in the middle of it when an armed police force opened the door of a row house in a small British town with the rambock early in the morning. We storm through the small house and see the horror of the mother in the bathrobe, who is currently doing breakfast, see how the sister crouches in the frame of the bathroom, how the surprised father asks for consideration and finally, like the 13-year-old 13-year-old Jamie Miller, a slimy child, pushing himself into his pajar. Jamie is arrested, his father can accompany him. Jamie’s teddy bear remains in bed.

Why do boys kill? Where does this anger come from? The series does not exist.

Each of the four one -hour episodes has been shot in a camera take, which ensures amazing effects; Like relay runners, the actors detach themselves in the scene changes. Stephen Graham, actor of the father, who wrote the script with the British author Jack Thorne (Miniserie “This is England ’86”). In “Yes, boss!” (In the original “Boiling Point”) he played a chef in 2021 – also in one go. As in “Adolescence”, Philip Barantini directed the three, the three are a well -coordinated team. Graham also played the bad skinhead combo in “This is England ’86”. The coordinated, muscle -baked actor is for the role of the man who is always on the sidelines of the next outbreak of anger. In “Adolescence” But he also shines as an outstanding character actor.

Because it gets really hard for Jamie’s father who wants to protect his boy on the guard before the admission procedure. He has no idea that the boy has been exposed to much worse on the Internet for a long time: namely online bullying and the toxic masculinity of the so-called Incel subculture, in the influencer of the hatred of women like Andrew Tate tens of young men every day against girls.

When interrogation, it quickly becomes clear: Jamie is the perpetrator and brutally stabbed his classmate. Nevertheless, the crying boy denies the deed. It is one of the many heartbreaking quiet scenes that live from small gestures and from which the protagonists cannot escape. You have to find a way to each other. The father, depressed by his own demons, is condemned to forgive the son of the son, during which there is only a silent cry for love.

A sensation of this series is the 14-year-old Owen Cooper, actor of Jamie. It is his acting debut, the boy has never stood on a film set before. Let alone a set with several cameras, the technology of a one-take turn and a correspondingly complex schedule. It was originally planned to turn each of the four episodes ten times after extensive trial period. What was not to be kept. A single promise and the whole company could start over.

Since the perpetrator is quickly determined, “adolescence” is So as a thriller is not a classic whodunnit, but a Whydunnit: Why do boys kill? Where does the anger that let the 13-year-old put together seven times? The series does not give answers, but it raises the right questions. Stephen Graham told a British magazine that he had been noticeable for years to increase gender -specific violence among young people, long before Southport. A 17-year-old stabbed three girls in the northern English small town, the boy was black, there were days of racist riots for days. The success of “adolescence” in its sensitive search for causes immediately called on the right-wing extremist Troll-Army at X, which always misleads with its dussy cultural struggle. This time they stated that the series replaced the skin colors compared to reality, “racism against white” was that the approving reposted by Musk was promptly.

But here, too, the mature citizen shows himself to be wiser as his reputation. Because people exchange ideas about the series on social media; You can feel that they have a need for speech, about parental role models, but also about the parallel world unknown to them on the net that falls on their children as soon as they close the door behind them. Some want a second season in which the role of the girl is in the center. And as if a miracle has happened, these conversations are characterized by respect and curiosity, unlike the social media, by a friendly language and the absence of eternal hate, which is not only completely worthless for adolescents.

Netflix 2025, director: Philip Barantini. With Stephen Graham, Owen Cooper, Erin Doherty, Christine Tremarco and others.