Adolescence co-creator Jack Thorne has weighed in on the possibility of the Netflix series getting a second season. Owen Cooper delivered an Emmy-winning performance in the drama series as a 13-year-old boy caught up in a murder investigation.
Reports emerged earlier in the year that Brad Pitt’s Plan B Entertainment was in talks with Netflix about a renewal, even though Adolescence was presented as a limited series. Thorne downplayed the possibility of making more Adolescence in a recent interview with CinemaBlend, saying he was more likely to use the show’s format of one continuous camera shot per episode in a new project. “There’s gonna be no continuation. The Miller story, we think, is told,” he said.
The writer went on: “We might find a way of using the one-shot. We are talking about finding ways to use the one-shot more in a different way. And we’d love to do that. Maybe it’s about the team versus finding a new story that we’re just as passionate about telling. So we’re working on that, and talking about that, but we haven’t found the answer completely yet, to be honest.”
However, Thorne later hedged slightly to concede that there is “stuff you could do with Jamie as a character,” though he was not interested in re-framing a second season around murdered school girl Katie’s perspective.
“It feels like we’ve finished telling [Jamie’s] story. We’ve finished telling what bits we want to tell,” the writer insisted. “And people say it’d be brilliant to see Katie’s perspective. And you’re like, well, yes, but maybe we are not the right people to tell Katie’s story.”
Adolescence Star Owen Cooper Made History With His Emmy Award Win
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The desire for a second season of Adolescence is understandable, given its immense success at the 77th Primetime Emmy Awards last Sunday (September 14). The series won six Emmys throughout the night, including Outstanding Limited or Anthology Series and awards for Stephen Graham and Erin Doherty in the Lead Actor and Supporting Actress categories, respectively, and two Creative Emmys.
Cooper became the youngest male acting winner in Emmy Awards’ history when he beat out his co-star Ashley Walters, Javier Bardem (Monsters: The Lyle and Erik Menendez Story), Bill Camp (Presumed Innocent), Rob Delaney (Dying for Sex), Peter Sarsgaard (Presumed Innocent) for the Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie Award.
Adolescence’s overwhelmingly positive critical reception stands in stark contrast to its early development cycle. Stephen Graham and Thorne, who co-created Adolescence, recently revealed to Vulture that they developed the project for Amazon’s Prime Video, but were unexpectedly called into a meeting with top executives after the pilot script was completed. “We’d been asked to come to London, and we skipped into this meeting thinking, Hey, it’s going to happen,” Graham recalled in his recent interview.
“We’re in this big room with leather seats and all that, and an exec who had flown in all the way from America was telling us how good the script was, how brilliant it is, and how society needs this kind of thing. Then the energy spun on a dime. She said, ‘Unfortunately, we can’t make this. This is not the kind of thing we make.’” Luckily, Netflix felt differently and later picked up the project after Thorne and Graham wrote two additional episodes completely on spec.
Adolescence is available to stream now via Netflix.
Release Date
March 13, 2025
Network
Netflix
Directors
Philip Barantini
Writers
Stephen Graham, Jack Thorne
Stephen Graham
Eddie Miller
