Streaming "Adolescence" overtakes other Netflix hits
According to Netflix, the British mini-series "Adolescence" is already one of the five most successful series on the streaming service after less than a month. The series has already overtaken Netflix hits such as "Bridgerton" and "La casa de papel" in terms of views.
09.04.2025, 00:25
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In the first three and a half weeks or so since its launch on March 13, Netflix recorded around 114.5 million views worldwide of the four-part series "Adolescence", whose episodes were filmed as one-shots, i.e. without editing.
The series "Adolescence", about a 13-year-old who stabs a girl of the same age, is therefore in fourth place in Netflix's all-time charts for English-language series - behind "Wednesday" (2022), "Stranger Things" (season four of 2022) and "Dahmer - Monster: The Jeffrey Dahmer Story" (2022).
If you look at the list of Netflix's non-English-language series hits, only the two seasons of the Korean survival thriller series "Squid Game" are ahead of "Adolescence". If the two seasons of "Squid Game" (2021 and 2024) are not counted as different series, it can be said that "Adolescence" is one of the five most successful Netflix series ever.
No longer-term data
The series from the UK, with a running time of 3 hours and 50 minutes, is therefore more successful than hit series such as "Bridgerton", "The Queen's Gambit" or "Lupin" from France and "La casa de papel" from Spain.
However, the Netflix top lists only refer to the first 91 online days on Netflix. Netflix does not disclose longer-term viewing figures.
Radicalization through social media
"Adolescence" revolves around teenager Jamie (Owen Cooper), who stabs a classmate one evening and is arrested the very next day due to overwhelming evidence.
Katie's murder is used in the series to explore the boy's psyche and how social media and societal pressure can fuel dangerous, misogynistic thought patterns in young men.
Netflix, which claims to have more than 300 million paying members in over 190 countries, publishes its weekly charts on Tuesday evenings, covering the streaming top 10 from Monday to Sunday.
