Adolescence–A Parent’s Heartbreak
In this four-episode Netflix mini-series, Adolescence is a crime drama focusing on how the arrest of a thirteen-year old boy for murder affects his family and classmates. In the first episode a British SWAT team abruptly invades a working class home and ransacks the house before handcuffing the boy and taking him in a squad car to the police station. The entire booking and interview process chronicles the minor’s terror and the parents’ helplessness as they passively witness his crying and pleading with police.
The Miller family does not understand their legal...