One of the more standout performances this season comes from the Emmy-nominated actors in Netflix’s limited series Adolescence , which follows a 13-year old Northern UK boy accused of murdering a fellow female student.

Whether he did it or not isn’t the approach of the show produced by Plan B and created by Stephen Graham and Jack Thorn. Instead, it delves into how an earnest student from a respectable working-class family comes to embrace such evils.

It unfortunately always goes back to the parents, but in this case the accused, Jamie Miller (Limited-Anthology Series Supporting Actor Emmy nominee Owen Cooper), isn’t living with parents who are acerbic (they are played by Emmy-nominated lead actor Graham and supporting actress nominee Christine Tremarco). But Jamie has a bitterly f

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