Rarely has a series broken down as “Adolescence” the United Kingdom. No wonder, because the Netflix drama takes pictures that you have been able to read in studies so far: the terrible dynamics that can trigger smartphones and nets in young people.
A conversation this week in London, at a sports field, the girls and boys have athletics, sprint training. Steps on the Tartanbahn, the trainer calls “Go!”, Groans, groan, cheer on. A mother sits on the terrace next to the train. She is German, has lived here with her British husband for more than twenty years, she says: “In the night after episode three I woke up shortly after four and could not fall asleep.” But stop switching off the television? Impossible.