Adolescence, a British TV series streaming on Netflix, depicts the arrest of 13-year-old Jamie for the brutal murder of his classmate, Katie, and the subsequent fallout in an imaginary English town. Shot in a continuous single-camera style, each episode explores the perspectives of Jamie's family, law enforcement, and an evaluating psychologist.

The limited-series format mimics the unsatisfying endings of real-life criminal justice cases. We see a legally defined conclusion, but many questions are left unanswered, as in life, leaving the characters—and viewers—to make sense of the chaos and what should come next after such a shocking act. Jamie's parents ask what, if anything, they could have done differently, and face the uncomfortable reality that many circumstances lie outside of their

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