Show Guide: 'Adolesence'

Synopsis: Adolescence is a crime drama filmed in an ambitious real-time, one-shot. It tells the story of how a family’s world is turned upside down when 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper) is arrested with the murder of a teenage girl who goes to his school. Stephen Graham will play Jamie’s father and ‘appropriate adult’, Eddie Miller. Ashley Walters stars as Detective Inspector Bascombe, and Erin Doherty is Briony Ariston, the clinical psychologist assigned to Jamie’s case. (Courtesy Netflix, 2025)

The Cast:

Production Credits:
Co-writers: Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne
Directed by: Philip Barantini
Co-executive producers: Carina Sposato (Plan B Entertainment) , Peter Balm, Niall Shamma (Warp Films)
Executive producers: Mark Herbert, Emily Feller for Warp Films, Stephen Graham and Hannah Walters for Matriarch Productions, Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner, Nina Wolarsky for Plan B Entertainment, JackThorne for One Shoe Films, Philip Barantini for It’s All Made Up
Production company: Warp Films, Matriarch Productions and Plan B Entertainment

The Episodes: