Netflix viewers are racing to watch a British crime drama that has drawn comparisons to the smash-hit series Adolescence.

First released on ITV in 2012, A Mother’s Son was created by Chris Lang, who would go on to create Unforgotten.

It followed the disappearance of Suffolk schoolgirl Lorraine Mullary, who goes missing and is later found murdered.

Her brutal death throws her sleepy market town into turmoil, including the recently merged family of Rosie (Hermione Norris) and Ben (Martin Clunes) and their four children, the former who becomes concerned her son Jamie (Alexander Arnold), is lying about where he was on the night of Lorraine’s murder.

It was teased of the two-part series: ‘When she finds a stained pair of trainers hidden in his bedroom, she worries the stains might be blood.

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