Why does “adolescence” go to become one of the series of the year?

As “Baby Renó” last year, “Adolescence”, Also of British origin, it is wonderful from the swarm of topics to unravel, sublime performances, a lucid and risky script that builds four totally different chapters from each other as well as unpredictable, credible dialogues where everyone reacts likely, without solemnity and without a forced line, with place for emotionality, tension and dramatic arc.

Apart paragraph for the formal, filmed in a single sequence sequence as the unforgettable “The Russian Ark”, in which the actors had to rehearse as in theater. The walk of a character or the trip by car is taken to change the scene and location, in addition to a camera that sometimes flies the neighborhood.

As in that film of Sokurovwas filmed millimeter and timed given the amount of details, locations and actors. With the exception of chapter three, a conversation between the protagonist and the therapist that is for applause and a theater lesson. Perhaps because they filmed her so many times by cutting when there was an error and starting again, it is so rich in expressiveness.

The story begins with two detectives talking about his teenage son (Ashley Walters as the inspector Luke Bascombe) whose problem of that day is that he wants to miss school. Then a dozen police officers break into a family home to stop a teenager suspected of murdering a young woman by knife. In a few minutes, the profiles of these parents begin to be marked, the first one cares about a trivial belly pain of his son versus the defendant’s father, in shock, masterful Stephen Graham as Eddie Millerbecause they destroy their house and take their son detained in what he can only conceive as an error.

The figure and look of that father during that child’s childhood is crucial. Both the son and the father evoke those forced football matches in which the boy did not stand out. In the memory of the son, the father preferred not to look at him by grief; In the evocation of the father, he tolerated that other parents laugh at the little skill of his son without him being able to react.

Unlike the classics of suspense of Agatha Christiewhere the suspicion falls on someone and that focus is changing throughout the story to a final surprise, here the spectator will weave a handful of hypothesis of what happened until the truth is revealed, and the outstanding one lies in that it is not with a final twist but that that truth comes in the third chapter.

A third episode that is the conversation between the therapist who has to present the report for the trial and the defendant, the young revelation Owen Cooper as Jamie Miller. This therapy session is a master class of action (the therapist is Erin Doherty) and the evolution of the deepest revelations through the story is spying through the eye of the lock. That dialogue that goes and goes over the father, has raptures of resistance, complicity, anger attacks and palpitations. Reveador for both the therapist and the spectator.

So what is left for the fourth episode if almost everything is known in the third? The feeling of a broken family, trying to celebrate the father’s birthday as if nothing happened, between denial and pain, seeking to cover or make that a good day despite everything.

The first two episodes portray a police station as it has rarely seen and a secondary school. In the first, the thorough procedure and with a magnifying glass that magnifies the detention of the child and all for what it must cross in the police station, the shame of undressing in front of the police to be examined, the panic to the needles and the destabilization of the family. The mother (Christine Tremarco as Miller commands) Wondering why she chose her husband as an adult referent and not her.

In the second we see the secondary school and those creatures in boiling but disarmed in the case of murder of a partner, bullying and that language that only they understand, crossed by social networks, defensive souls, dumb jokes, irreverent behaviors and much loneliness. Fun the description of researchers on smell in secondary schools.

The outcome of each chapter is poetic, in one sounds a version of “fragile” of Sting sung by a choir of boys, and the letter is surprisingly resigned. And the end with a plane that looks like a painting and condenses the feeling of those imperfect, broken parents, who try to self -convence that they can move on.