एपिसोड #1.4

This episode, was not quite what I thought it would be, in terms of final episode, but I ultimately I really enjoyed it for what It was, once I realised just what kind of show i was watching!

This was never a murder mystery, since you know exactly what happened from the first episode! In stead this was about how people respond to this kind of thing, and how you as a parent respond!

Stephen Graham proves he is one of yhe most underrated actors! His performance in this episode is soul chrushing and you can feel all the emotions and frustration he is going through! I really hope he gets an award and recognition for this!

The final scene broke me completely! The soundtrack, the acting, realizing it was over.. I was in tears, sobbing!

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!

I thoroughly enjoyed the series. Many aspects of it came very close to home for me. I was enthralled by the acting, especially the young boy, who had never acted before. I did struggle a bit with a thick British accents, and was unable to understand some of what they said, but I pieced it together.

I was so impressed by the cinematography, and how the Director and the cameraman circled the room during the psychologist seen and how it followed everyone as they walked around the police station and the school and other locations.

What was the graffiti that was written on the father's truck? I couldn't make it out.

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.

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.