Episode #1.3

Wow, this scene, this episode, this lines and dialogues were absolutely intense, gripping and powerful acting performances I've seen in years! How lines were delivered made it very scary to watch. I was really hooked by this series and seeing these lead actors delivered great performances was stunning. The boy absolutely smashed his character to life, brought so much intensity to his character and how he managed to be so dark, scary and heart wrenching in the end. I was so surprised how this mini series deliver like a cinematic experience for viewers just by magnificent script written and dialogue perfomed in such a powerful acting performance in this episode made this series a must watch and for sure will get many awards this year. Probably one of the best tv mini series out there that will make it stuck on you for long after watching it.

If we're still talking about this show in 40 years, and like Cathy Come Home I think we will be, then it will be because of this episode. It's urgent, it's essential, it's topical without being hectoring. It rips your soul apart.

I genuinely think Adolescence Episode 3 is the best hour of TV that Britain has ever produced. Maybe the best single episode of any TV show ever.

It's exquisitely written, acted, directed, produced, filmed, sound designed, set designed... I mean literally every part. There's not a foot out of place.

But that acting! Owen Cooper and Erin Doherty should win all the awards, I'd give them a Grammy and a Tony for this as well if I could.

After all the choreography required in the first two episodes, this one is much simpler and yet the writing and the acting makes it one of the best pieces of screen time I've seen.

Owen Cooper is simply extraordinary. He'll earn all the praises and deservedly so, but the performance by Erin Doherty is perfect. You wouldn't expect the bouncing off and on that this two achieve. It's like prime Federer against prime Nadal.

Haven't seen the last episode yet but if this limited series had ended here nobody could complain.

And the directing simply meets everything at the top. "Only" doing what is required (the single frame is still amazing)

Another great episode of that series!

Is it possible that 45 minutes of constant conversation won't bore a viewer? Until today I'd say it isn't, but this episode changed my mind 180 degrees! Even though I'm a person who prefers action to psychology in TV, this episode hooked me from the beginning. The tension between 13-year-old boy (possibly a sociopath?) and the shrink was quite easy to feel with those outbursts of him.

Another admirable thing about this episode is acting. Owen Cooper who plays Jamie seems like a very promising actor, who might achieve a lot seeing his performance in two episodes he appeared in so far.

And last but not least, but this series being recorded in one-shot is absolute masterpiece! I mentioned it in my review of episode 1, but I'm so impressed by that, that I felt the urge to emphasize it once again.

This is the most interesting, captivating, shocking, and frankly scary episode. Owen's performance as Jamie was nothing short of an Oscar- or Emmy-winner. He is so young but he conveys the turmoil, and complex emotions of a psychologically unstable teenager so incredibly well. He did it with such ease that even made I was scared for my life whenever the outburst began.

In conjunction, Erin's performance as the psychologist matches that of Owen. The episode is literally just 2 characters playing a mind game. One is young yet cunning, while the other is older but calm, collected, and experienced yet vulnerable.

If this episode didn't win Owen at least an Emmy nomination, I don't know what deserves more.