Hello, friends, this time I entered the world of Netflix miniseries and I wanted to take a look at “Adolescence”, since I was seeing how it was being praised on platforms like tik tok and many people were praising the performance of the main character so much that my curiosity was piqued and I had to watch it just for the heck of it.

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I tell you a little of what the miniseries is about, and that is that we see how the surface is scratched in the life of a group of teenagers, where we learn the great gap between the adult language and theirs, the lack of understanding and attention from parents and that transition a little murky into adulthood. The focus is on the identity that each young person tries to find almost desperately because of the social pressure that this means but in most cases things go wrong by forcing situations.
Having said that, I will leave you with what for me were the most important aspects to draw my objective conclusions:

Production

A continuous camera series was used to shoot the scenes, meaning that one scene could contain what in other productions was achieved in 20. This is innovative, but at the same time plays against it because despite the great effort made by the actors and those involved, the visual elements are exaggerated and even tend to distract the narrative, making the whole scheme heavy, slow and boring.

Script and Character Development

At first we find a rather predictable script because we see how it repeats the story that has already been told in another film or series, but we still give it a chance because the youth genre is reinventing itself over the years and it is something that can be taken advantage of if you have the right approach. And just when we think they are going to give depth to a theme or a specific character, everything is half-baked and secondary characters intervene that seem to have no direction.
But if there is something to be saved it is the interaction between the father and son, especially the father's, which is the only realistic thing the narrative leaves us with.

Acting

The protagonist is the one who should give us the most emotional charge, but in his case he gave us half of the miniseries drowned in an unconvincing cry and a few minutes of the end with a tantrum that could have been what really saved everything, but really as in the whole story, it was half-hearted and only seemed like a tantrum.

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Topics and Message

We were able to see everyday themes of this type of productions such as friendship, love and social pressure from the point of view of both adolescence and adulthood, which if they had continued walking in that direction I think the results would have been more flattering. And although it touches on the subject of bullying but having a supposed antagonist very different from the usual, they did not want to go deeper perhaps because of the complexity of what that means, however, that was where they were going to have the great success in giving a different message.

My Opinion

I want to give you my opinion once justified, and it is that I did not find it an impressive story, they had a theme that they could have taken a lot of points and left it unfinished, it seemed to me a plot produced too slow and with important plot holes. I also consider that my expectations were very high, thinking that I was going to get a gem due to the fomo in social networks, but once I saw it I realized that I was only sold smoke.
Each chapter was more boring than the other and just when you thought it was going to get good, the illusion was cut short with unnecessary filler scenes.

In conclusion, __“Adolescence

”__ is a miniseries that entertains you, but does not bring anything new to the screen, being a tragic story of teenagers where what could have gone wrong went wrong. Although I must emphasize that it leaves me somewhat surprised by the difference in language used by adults and teenagers, and if you have children and detail that part I think you can feel terrified of the things you do not know and that for you may be normal, but for your teenagers mean something that even you can't imagine, and that is a complete reality that puts many families in evidence.
Anyway, if you want to pass the time you will enjoy it, but if you are someone like me who was looking for depth and substance I think you may come out a little disappointed and think you wasted your time. But since you have to see the glass half full instead of half empty I think this miniseries gives me a small window into the #MoviesTVShows community and give a small but nourishing review.

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