Adolescence is not based on one specific real-life event, but its story is inspired by real incidents. The creators, Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, developed the series after hearing troubling news reports about young boys committing violent crimes, particularly knife attacks.

Adolescence is a new limited series on Netflix and in this article, we discuss if the TV show is based on a true story.

Adolescence, a new Netflix series starring and co-written Stephen Graham, barrels into several timely (and uncomfortable) topics, including bullying, misogyny, online radicalization, and "incel" culture.

For teenagers, the stats are even bleaker: eighty-three per cent of all murdered teens (64 in total) were done so with a knife. This is the issue that Netflix’s new drama Adolescence wants to address.

These are the haunting questions at the core of Adolescence, Netflix's latest crime drama that will have you questioning everyone and everything. With each episode filmed in one uninterrupted take, the raw intensity of the harrowing situation at hand is only propelled by the cast ensemble featuring Stephen Graham,