Netflix teencescence’s successful dramatic series may not have a second season

If you’ve already looked at Adolescence And you found yourself emotionally gutted and deeply unstable, you are not alone. The drama of Netflix shortly, starring Stephen Graham and newcomer Owen CooperHe had an immediate and visceral impact on the viewer.

It is officially the most viewed Netflix series ever, accumulating incredible 66.3 million hours in just two weeks. But there will be no second season.

While that news could sting for fans who hope to immerse themselves deeper than the story, especially from the point of view of Katie, the classmate Jamie is accused of killing, co-creator Jack Thorne He clarified: this story had always had to be contained.

While this morning, Thorne said in no uncertain terms: “I don’t think we are the right people to tell the story of Katie. I think there are other producers out there that they could tell beautiful dramas on Katie or girls like Katie and that those shows should be made.”

It is a refreshing version and gives the decision not to continue the series a sort of creative integrity that is rare in the era of infinite renewals.

Adolescence It is told over four episodes, each blow in a continuous socket. That structure forces the viewer to sit in the discomfort of every moment from Jamie’s arrest to the slow implosion of his family. There is no escape. No changes. Only a raw story.

For Thorne and Graham, expanding the story in Katie’s experience would mean entering shoes that they do not feel equipped to fill. “Perhaps trying to tell his story would dilute somehow and perhaps we would be inadequate for that task,” Thorne admitted.

He also clarified that Jamie’s arch is complete: “I don’t think there is more that we can take Jamie, so I don’t think there is a two series. We would like to explore the single format in another way. We would like to tell other stories with it, but I don’t think [another series] of adolescence is fair enough for us. “

It is rare that a successful show walked away from his peak, but Adolescence I never seemed to play according to traditional TV rules. It does not offer the closure as much as it requires reflection, and this is the point.