To think Adolescence was a little overblown with sketchy acting?

The plot moved at a snails pace, no twists, predicable. I knew the way the hot chocolate cup was placed on the table it was going flying minutes before it happened. Was an ok watch but so overhyped. These sort of incel crimes are vanishingly rare as well.

To everyone who likes episode 3 - why? I don't get the scenes with the weird and very unprofessional psychologist at all. Her line of questioning made no sense and her reaction to his outbursts was way over the top.

It's completely subjective obviously and you can take issue with the script, the shooting and the over-promotion but I can't see how you can have arrived at the conclusion that the acting was shit...

Stephen Graham and the boy who played Jamie were both superb. Far better than anything I've seen on TV for a long time.

It doesn’t matter whether you like it or not doesn’t matter whether you thought the act were crap. The fact is it’s got people talking all over the world that is pretty impressive.

I am watching it for a second time, after being impressed the first time. Its main appeal for me is its 'terrible things happen to ordinary people' storyline. I began watching it thinking it was about knife crime. It's actually about so-called toxic masculinity. This time, what's standing out are the clues that pave the way to the main character ending up as the murderer of a young girl.

We were disappointed. I don’t think I liked the way it was filmed. All the talking from the house to the paint shop was dreadful. Episode 3 was ok.

I felt like there was a lot of unfinished business 🤷‍♀️

Completely over hyped. Ep 4 was boring as fuck.

It was mediocre at best.

Episode 1 was amazing television. I couldn’t look away from episode 3 - it made me so uncomfortable but was so compelling. 2 and 4 (4 in particular) dragged and could have been much shorter. I still thought the acting was brilliant though

I wasn't bored, but mostly I agree with this. I worked in a "related area", and what some people described as shocking was, imo, rather tame compared to what is really going on. People think that they know about misogyny and incels, and that the Tates are basically vile but pillocks (which is, to be fair, true). But the Tates are actually almost akin to the "moderate" wing - what is actually out there, and what young boys and men are accessing is far worse than most peoples nightmares. They prey on the very normal insecurities and fears of adolescents, warping them into dangerous and violent ideoologies and linking them to other extremist views and actions. And they are "out there" in their millions and millions and millions. They are not some small but vocal minority.

I liked episode 1 a lot, 2 and 3 pretty good. Episode 4 undid that so I felt differently afterwards.

(Spoiler alert) I tend to agree with most posters here but I did really enjoy episodes 1 and 3.
Ep four was really overblown and dragged.
Yeah, we get it, the parents realised their mistakes. Too much was left unsaid and undealt with, IMO.

I thought both the mum and the daughter were bad actors.

I was glued to my seat, the only thing which annoyed me was the sound quality, music too loud and actors mumbling. We had to put the subtitles on!

He was totally dreadful in White House Farm, his accent was borderline comedy

As others have said, there were parts of it I thought very good and parts I didn't like at all. None of it was edge of your seat viewing in my opinion. Overall it left me feeling kind of disappointed, my husband said the same, he wanted more understanding of why the boy committed the crime. I think they could have gone further with it.

Very,very bad.

I haven’t watched it, but I’m aware of the discourse around it, and I’m not particularly enjoying the interviews with men in their 30s confessing they identified with the boy and can imagine ending up like that if they watched the wrong YouTube video.

i don’t want to overstate the case, because it’s only the writer and one other man I’ve heard this from, but hearing ‘normal’ men confess ‘yeah it’s not that difficult for me to imagine wanting to kill a girl because she wouldn’t go out with me’ is so fucking depressing.

My DD said that the school scenes in Episode 2 felt like watching GCSE drama. Hard agree.
I think a lot of the threads at the moment to do with this show are placed/ hyped by marketers. Interesting to see "Mumsnetter" quoted in a Netflix print ad in the Guardian today.

You’re not the only one OP. I thought it was good but not fantastic. Episodes 1 and 2 were great but it tailed off in episode 3 and the last episode was really boring.

I thought it was very tedious and drawn out while at the same time totally lacking any depth. You are left at the end of it with no clear understanding regarding the boy and his actions. First episode was quite good except for the arrest and then the rest was a total waste of time.