Why watch?

It follows two teenagers pulled into crime and it gets genuinely dark — there are moments that hit hard emotionally, especially watching how fast everything falls apart. Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne built something unpredictable where each episode reframes what you thought about the characters before. It doesn't preach or manipulate you — it just shows what happens when kids end up in the wrong place. If you want a series that grabs you and doesn't let go, this is it.

Who is it for?

Watch this when you want something dark and intense in the evening — not comfort viewing, but for people who like gritty crime dramas with real street edge. If you got into Gangs of New York or Mindhunter, you'll find that same weight and bleak atmosphere here. There's violence and heavy subject matter, so this is strictly adult territory — for viewers after something raw and authentic.

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If you gravitated toward Dojrzewanie for the raw British youth drama mixed with crime and coming-of-age grit, check out Skins — another UK series that doesn't sugarcoat adolescence. There's also Godless, which features Stephen Graham (Dojrzewanie's creator) in a tense psychological western, and Top Boy, a London street drama that captures that same blend of young people caught in dark circumstances.

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Plakat — Adolescence

Adolescence

2025 · 1 season7.816
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When a 13-year-old is accused of the murder of a classmate, his family, therapist and the detective in charge are all left asking: what really happened?

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A family's world fractures when 13-year-old Jamie Miller is arrested for murdering a girl at his school, and his father Eddie has to sit beside him through police interrogations as his legal adult. Stephen Graham plays Eddie as a man trying to hold everything together while having no idea if his own son is guilty, and the tension between believing in your kid and facing what evidence suggests is brutal. Ashley Walters is the detective working the case, and Erin Doherty is the psychologist trying to figure out what happened inside Jamie's head. If you watched Mare of Easttown or Broadchurch, you know that grinding, where-did-we-go-wrong feeling when a crime hits a community and nobody has clean answers.

Why watch?

It follows two teenagers pulled into crime and it gets genuinely dark — there are moments that hit hard emotionally, especially watching how fast everything falls apart. Stephen Gr…

Who is it for?

Watch this when you want something dark and intense in the evening — not comfort viewing, but for people who like gritty crime dramas with real street edge. If you got into Gangs o…

Similar titles

If you gravitated toward Dojrzewanie for the raw British youth drama mixed with crime and coming-of-age grit, check out Skins — another UK series that doesn't sugarcoat adolescence…

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