3mo ago

How does everyone feel about Netflix's "Adolescence?"

Watched it with my wife over the weekend, and had some thoughts. First, the acting is exceptional throughout. Seriously, I don’t think there was a weak performance from anyone. Second, the cinematography was clever, but I’m not sure it was anything more than that. Shooting each episode as a oner brings some limitations with what you can do plot-wise. This brings me to my third thought: I think they missed an episode. Each of the 4 episodes focuses on one person or small group of people, but there isn’t really an episode that focuses on the boy and the victim before the “incident.”

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I had gotten the impression from news articles and other commentary that it really went into how young men are being lured into this negative culture. So I was very disappointed to find that it really only kind of touches on the topic. I guess it's a start?
- Right! I think this is why I want to see a “prequel” episode mixed in. Especially after episode 3.
About the same as any other Netflix show; I'll pirate it eventually.
I've only caught snippets so far, but it does look interesting enough that I'm likely to watch it at some point, but fuck Netflix lol.
I love shows like this that go into the detail of the emotions different people in the process are going through. It shows a different kind of realism. I recommend the show “the night of” for the same reason.
Watched the first episode. Not a fan. They just covered a whole lot of really boring details the entire time that were totally not important to the story, like they were just trying to fill time or something. But yeah, everything else was exceptional.