‘Adolescence’: First Look At Netflix’s Stephen Graham Crime Drama

Here’s the first glimpses of Adolescence, the Netflix crime drama series starring Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters and Erin Doherty.

The four-part series — from Graham and his regular collaborators Jack Thorne Philip Barantini — is notable for each episode being shot in one continuous take as the action unfolds in real time. It’s due to launch on Netflix next year and counts Brad Pitt among its exec producers. You can see the images above and below.

Adolescence will mark a first role for Owen Cooper, who plays a 13-year-old teenage boy who is arrested for the murder of a girl at his school. Graham (Boiling Point) plays his father and ‘appropriate’ adult, while Walters (Top Boy) plays a detective inspector and Soherty (The Crown) a clinical psychologist assigned to the case.

Faye Marsay (Game of Thrones), Christine Tremarco (The Responder), Mark Stanley (Happy Valley), Jo Hartley (After Life) and newcomer Amélie Pease also star. Series is produced by Warp Films, Matriarch Productions and Plan B for Netflix.  

Graham and Barantini previously worked together on Boiling Point, the BAFTA-nominated feature that was adapted as a BBC series and also employed the continuous shot trick.

Graham wrote and created Adolescence alongside Jack Thorne, who previously wrote the Graham-starring dramas Help and The Virtues, and was co-writer on several This is England series and films. Mark Herbert and Emily Feller are exec producers for Warp Films, Graham and Hannah Walters for Matriarch Productions, Thorne for One Shoe Films, Barantini for It’s All Made Up Productions, and Brad Pitt, Jeremy Kleiner, Dede Gardner and Nina Wolarsky for Plan B Entertainment. Plan B’s Carina Sposato, Peter Balm and Warp’s Niall Shamma are co-executive producers. The producer is Jo Johnson.