To think Adolescence was a little overblown with sketchy acting?

[Radish81]

I was interested in it and “enjoyed it”

but I thought it was a bit overblown and some of the acting…. Well, a bit shit really.

i feel like the only person on the planet to think this!

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.

Very,very bad.

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.

And the daughter aged 18 in the middle of the couple glued to her phone…. It had all the subtlety of a sledgehammer. Look look look at how these teens are obsessed with their screens all the time

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

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!

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

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

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.

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

It was mediocre at best.

Completely over hyped. Ep 4 was boring as fuck.

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 🤷‍♀️

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.

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 never said it mattered (although needless to say it “matters” to me!)

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.

t I can't see how you can have arrived at the conclusion that the acting was shit...

i am not alone!

And how someone views an actor is also entirely subjective

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.

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.

I have only just started watching it but so far the acting has been excellent. Very naturalist.

@XelaM I was surprised at her reaction. Surely she would be experienced with this sort of stuff? Looking frightened in parts and then crying at the end? Unless she was newly qualified or something…

I enjoyed it but .. I wasn’t entirely convinced by the premise . And it was never explored why the boy was out at 10.30pm on a school night and why his mother (who was at home) didn’t know he was out . Unless I missed something..