Episode #1.4

If episode 3 was the most intense and gripping, then episode 4 is the saddest, most heartbreaking one. The episode deals with the effects of one's actions on their family. It explores how the consequence does not just stay confined to that guilty person but extends and affects everyone they know and love. The acting of the mother makes me cry so much. She has to try to hold the family together while dealing with what happens. She looks broken and she is, and that breaks my heart. I think this series really is sounding the alarm to parents and to young adolescents about what you watch and believe online, about the danger of those toxic masculine individuals who poison the minds of our young people, because the consequence does not stop at just you.

Stephen graham. An incredible actor, I love him, good job mate. (Also check out the movie BOILING POINT), that's a great one too. This fourth episode is the best one in the miniseries. Raw naturalistic and engaging. NO complaints from me except the word nonce was a poor choice of words, if the hooligans spray painted 'MURDERERS' then this episode as a piece of work could be isolated from the rest of the miniseries and be a short film. Those words Nonce are only understood as passing remarks and not actual accusations because we've watched the rest of the episodes, as a stand alone project this episode would make you think the dad did something wrong maybe? The word being MURDERERS would have raised questions to first time viewers that would have been answered throughout the episode when the son(who's in custody) reveals he will plead guilty. That would have been the question answered and made this a stand alone episode. Aside from that, perfect 10/10.

I'm sure I've only ever shed a tear at three films: The Green Mile, The Reader and The Whale. I may have also shed a tear or two during the final episodes of After Life and 1883. I have watched hundreds, if not thousands of films and TV shows.

This final powerful episode of Adolescence truly made me sob for several minutes after the closing credits. This felt awfully real and it's hard to fathom that families experience this kind of tragedy on a daily basis.

This is an emotionally raw and devastating final episode, sold with an absolute conviction by writer and star Stephen Graham. This for me was the most difficult of the four episodes to sit through, and not just because of the final 2 mins in the son's bedroom. The ripple effect of Jamie's actions has not only destroyed the lives of the victim's family, but his own family too, as they are left to answer for what he did.

It was utterly heartbreaking to watch Jamie's parents try to make any sense of their son's actions and whether they could have done anything different to prevent their son's descent into insecurity and misguided, misogynistic anger, which ultimately led him on a path to murder a fellow female classmate. Memories the parents discussed about Jamie suggested their son was dead and to an extent that was true. The son they thought they knew was dead.

Narratively speaking, this episode is slightly undercooked and the series as a whole offered no definitive answers. The writers try to say a lot, but the ideas aren't fully realised, limited I think by a runtime of less than 4 hours and the need I think for a fifth episode to explore beyond its own hints. It does leave you with more questions than it does answers.

I can't say I've enjoyed the experience of watching Adolescence and I will likely never be able to bring myself to watch this again. I sat there throughout with a heavy heart and a beating lump in my stomach. What makes this all the more difficult are the show's timely and scarily relevant themes. No doubt this is an important watch, and there are lessons to be taught and conversations to be had, not just about youth knife crime, but misconceptions around sex, the dated principles of masculinity and the power of the internet and its detrimental impact on mental health, self-worth and body image.

This episode started with a bit more of a positivity than previous ones with dad's birthday and so on. However, later it turned out to be a train of terrible events for the entire family.

Stephen Graham's performance here was top-notch! He conveyed father's emotions in an impossible way, e.g. With his outbursts of anger against the biker kids

It was a great finale of the series, showing how decisions of one family's member might affect the rest of them. However, it was especially about parents who feel responsible for their kid's downfall as a human being. A father even deliberates whether he could've done something better raising his kid, not being strict enough with him.

And this final scene with Stephen Graham in tears, saying "I'm sorry son. I should've done better" was an absolute masterpiece!

It's Eddie's 50th birthday and The Millers are trying to have a normal day, unfortunately people won't allow them to move on, and with Jamie inside, then become the target.

As with episodes 2 and 3, this one surprised me, it certainly didn't go in the direction I was expecting, I thought it may have ended with the trial, but instead it shows the long lasting impact Jamie's crime has on his family.

Incredibly uncomfortable to watch, this was really heavy going, talk about intense, I watched the whole thing with a sunken feeling in the pit of my stomach, surely a great drama is designed to move you, to make you feel, even if it's bad things, this certainly does that.

Every crime drama and mystery focuses on the victim and the killer, this one goes a step further and focuses on the lives of those trying to move on.

That moment when Jamie phoned, that was like the ultimate knife twist.

It makes you think all sorts, especially about where we're at now, society just seems to be crumbling before our eyes, no respect, no discipline, it's so sad.

I figured Stephen Graham would get a chance to display his talents to the max, of course he does, he's superb here, you almost feel Eddie's anger and frustration.

10/10.