<em>Adolescence</em>: ‘What Have You Done?’

<em>Adolescence</em>: ‘What Have You Done?’

Sometimes when a cultural phenomenon seems to come out of nowhere, I’m already on top of it. The British crime drama Adolescence quickly became a bigger hit on Netflix than even Bridgerton or Squid Game, and its roots were in a movie that I saw four years ago. Director Philip Barantini and star Stephen Graham collaborated on Boiling Point (which became another Netflix show) and shot the entire 92-minute film in a single take to convey a London r…