Movie #3432 .........................."Adolescence" (Netflix)

Movie #3432 "Adolescence" (Netflix) What an eye-opening experience to watch this mini-series with 4 intense and gripping hour long looks into a tragedy that happened in a small town.  A young girl has been killed and the opening episode is from the victim and family's point of view --- so we see the child arrested, searched, tested, fingerprinted, and finally interviewed by the police while the parents are shuffled in and out of the kid's company .  Everyone comes across very real and human, even the cop who is  doing the interviewing, and his assistant who is a female detective.  The second episode deals with the cops going to the school to do some interviewing with the friends of the kids involved in the tragedy.  The third and most difficult for me to watch is a non-partisan psychologist interviewing the kid in a cat and mouse game the kid tries to control.  Finally the 4th episode is the family's life now after several months later.  It is intriguing to watch, very tense, and very real, but I wish it would have given us more answers as to how we can better deal with this tragedy, and maybe how to prevent it.  I know as a society we are trying to do both of those things, and just showing us the consequences makes good t.v. watching, but when it is all said and done, we could use some suggestions on how to make these tragedies go away.  No doubt there's a lot of emotion and reaction going on here,, though.  And it serves as great talking points with our kids, I should think.  A tough watch.  In seeing interviews and discussions about this on talk shows, the  show seems to bring up masculinity, and the problems boys face nowadays  growing up  in a world where masculinity is being redefined.     I'd give it a 4 out of 5.

"    ADOLESCENCE"      Netflix        2025       1 hour per episode, 4 episodes

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.

creators:  Stephen Graham, Jack Thorne

Actors:  Owen Cooper, Stephen Graham, Ashley Walters