Streaming Already almost 100 million views on Netflix for "Adolescence"
After less than three weeks, the streaming service Netflix has already counted almost one hundred million views for the British mini-series "Adolescence". The series revolves around the question of why a 13-year-old stabs a peer to death.
02.04.2025, 02:18
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In the first two and a half weeks or so since its release on March 13, the four-part production from the UK has recorded around 96.7 million views worldwide.
Netflix, which claims to have more than 300 million paying members in over 190 countries, published its weekly charts on Tuesday evening, which record the streaming top 10 from Monday to Sunday. From the first to the second week, views increased from 24.3 million views to 42 million views. In the third week, the series reached 30.4 million views, as Netflix announced.
Focus on the teenage psyche
"Adolescence" revolves around 13-year-old Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), who stabs a classmate with a knife one evening. When the police storm his nursery the following morning, his parents (Stephen Graham and Christine Tremarco) stand by helpless and stunned.
Katie's murder is used in the series to explore the psyche of the boy, who has been overwhelmed by bullying, social isolation and dangerous thought patterns about supposedly desirable masculinity. Father actor and series co-creator Stephen Graham formulated the core question of the series as follows: "What peer, internet and social media influences are putting pressure on our young men?"
The four real-time episodes, each lasting around an hour, were filmed without editing. Of the one-shot episodes (directed by Philip Barantini), many find episode three, in which a psychologist (Erin Doherty) interviews the boy to understand his horrific crime, the most impressive.
