Adolescence
Season 1
4 listed hours · 2025 · Netflix
From the desk
How this season is filed
Watch Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne's four-episode Netflix gut punch for technical daring in service of dread. Each hour is a continuous-take trap around Owen Cooper's Jamie, a boy who is both child and defendant. No escape hatch — schedule the emotional recovery time.
TV Flash files Season 1 of Adolescence (2025) on Netflix as the only listed season — 4 listed hours, 2025-03-13 from “Episode 1” (S01E01) to “Episode 4” (S01E04). Titles, dates, and synopses on file — no invented recaps.
Desk essentials in this season
- S01E01 Episode 1
The first oner as dread contract: a boy who is both child and defendant, technical daring already in service of a gut punch, not a stunt reel.
- S01E04 Episode 4
The fourth hour as recovery-time closer: no escape hatch, the limited run ending where the continuous-take trap has nowhere left to cut.
- S01E02 Episode 2
Second take, same closed room: Thorne and Graham still refusing an edit as mercy, Owen Cooper's Jamie remaining the hour's gravitational field.
- S01E03 Episode 3
The third continuous-take trap: mid-run dread without a subplot hatch, Netflix event television that schedules the emotional recovery time.
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S01E01 Episode 1
Police break down the door of the Millers' family home. Teenage Jamie is arrested and taken in for questioning but insists he's done nothing wrong.
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S01E02 Episode 2
The police look for answers — and the weapon — at Jamie's school. They can't get any leads from his friends, until DI Bascombe's son offers to help.
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S01E03 Episode 3
Jamie meets with a psychologist. He's reluctant to speak at first, but eventually he opens up about his complex feelings towards Katie.
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S01E04 Episode 4
On Eddie's birthday, the Millers try to celebrate like everything is normal. But a series of upsetting events threatens to send the family over the edge.
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