'Adolescence' is a call for conversation, compassion
Hindustan Times West UP
|March 22, 2025
This week I want to take a break from politics and geopolitics and talk to you about a Netflix series which should be mandatory viewing in homes and schools everywhere in the world.
When I first heard all the fulsome praise for Adolescence, the stirring British drama centred around a 13-year-old accused of murder, I was sceptical. As someone whose secret vice is an addictive consumption of the British procedural, I thought that perhaps for the Indian audience who had been fed on a diet of Netflix's more garish, flamboyant fare, it was the unique understatedness of the British drama that was a relatively new experience.
Then there was the question of how bleak it seemed. Did I really want to be saddened and depressed by the story of an adolescent killer? I almost missed the most humane and nuanced television content created in decades.
It may be set in the United Kingdom, but it holds up, in the most visceral way possible, a mirror to all we have become and are in danger of losing every day. Adolescence is not just for parents. It is for and about all of us.
This story is from the March 22, 2025 edition of Hindustan Times West UP.
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