Is Adolescence based on a true story? Inspiration behind Netflix drama explained
Adolescence revolves around a 13-year-old boy accused of murder – here’s how much of that story is based on a true story.
Adolescence is a shocking new Netflix drama about a 13-year-old-boy accused of murder – here’s the truth behind that story.
Adolescence is a four-part drama – filmed in four continuous shots – that dropped on Netflix today (March 13), and features a cast that includes Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters, Erin Doherty, and newcomer Owen Cooper.
A Thousand Blows star Graham plays Eddie, an unsuspecting father whose teenage son Jamie is accused of murdering a girl at his school, with the show revolving around their interactions with the detectives investigating the crime, and the child psychologist assigned to the case.
Here’s how much of that story is based in reality, including details of where the show’s creators found inspiration. Meaning SPOILERS ahead.
The truth behind the shocking story in AdolescenceAdolescence isn’t based on a specific true story, but the show is inspired by a spate of teenage stabbings in the UK.
While speaking after a screening of Episode 1, Stephen Graham – who also co-wrote Adolescence alongside Jack Thorne – said: “We’d been asked to create a one-shot piece which was going to be a series, so we were coming up with the possibilities of what we’d make it about, and I’d read an article in the paper about a young boy stabbing a young girl.
“It made me feel a bit cold. Then about three of four months later, there was a piece on the news about a young boy who’d stabbed a young girl. They are young boys, they’re not men. And it was completely the opposite end of the country.
“It really hurt my heart, for many different reasons. Predominantly as a father, but where we are at as a society for this to happen. I said to [director] Phil [Barantini] – me and Phil were in the car – and I came up with the possibility of the idea.
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“I’m slightly obsessed with 24 Hours in Police Custody, and we knew because of the technique and how we shoot that we had to grab the audience straight away, and there’s no better beginning than smashing through the door on a raid, going into the house, and pointing the guns at a 13-year-old boy. I thought with that possibility we’d really grab the audience’s attention.”
Shining a light on the issuesIt becomes clear at the end of Episode 1 – via CCTV footage – that Jamie has committed the crime, with the rest of the show concerned with the fallout from that murder. But Graham said Adolescence isn’t a show about pointing fingers.
“One of out main aims is that beautiful saying ‘it takes a village to raise a child.’ We didn’t want to point the blame at anyone specifically or in particular. We wanted to say we’re all accountable in many ways for this kind of thing, be that parents, teachers, government, society, community.
“Most of all, when we were kids, we didn’t have Internet. If I was in my room I was either playing Subbuteo or I was on my Casio keyboard. That was all I could do. But today, we don’t know what our children are doing in their rooms. So that was something that we wanted to shine a light on.”
How people like Andrew Tate are manipulating our kidsJamie’s online activity brings him into contact with concepts like “incels,” “truth groups,” and the “manosphere.” One police officer refers to “Andrew Tate sh*te,” while Eddie references someone popping up on his phone, “talking about how to treat women and how men should be men and all that sh*t.”
Jack Thorne was charged with the task of researching those issues, and says it was a tough task. “My algorithm got really, really dark,” he joked in the same Q&A. “TikTok and Twitter – those are the places you saw it, and places on the Dark Web too, trying to look everywhere for the information that kids might come across.
“We wanted to be authentic, and being authentic meant opening up some places that you didn’t want to go, and the thing that I discovered which frightened me most, is that I could understand the logic of it.
“If you put yourself inside Jamie’s head, and you think like an isolated boy, and you are told that 80% of women are attracted to 20% of men, and you’re in that 20%, and you’re going to be lonely, and the feelings you’re feeling now of self-hatred and everyone hating you – those are just going to stay until you find a way to manipulate your world.
“And those sites train kids with ideas, and those ideas are going: ‘you need to trick, you need to harm, you need to control, and if you do these things, you might have a normal life. These lives that you see of people living happily – they’ve learned how to manipulate, they’ve learned how to harm, and you need that, and you need to listen to me.’”
Thorne said he could see the attraction of these ideas, which was terrifying. Graham ended the Q&A by saying that Adolescence doesn’t have the answers but hopes to start the conversation, with each other and with our kids.
Fore more drama, check out our list of the best thrillers on Netflix, and new shows on Netflix this month.
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