I’m not sure if that’s what this person meant, but the presentation is also very realistic. The scenes are very long and are stitched together to create the feeling of each episode being one take. You are constantly in the moment with the characters, there is no downtime to let you reflect on what’s happening. You just get ~45 minutes (I can’t remember how long the episodes are) of non-stop tension and gut punches but you can only really start to process them when the credits roll. Because of that it’s a difficult show to binge for some.
In that first episode I thought they were using the interview and waiting rooms in the police station, so every time they pulled back to that busier corridor it would have been the start of filming.
I’m not sure if that’s what this person meant, but the presentation is also very realistic. The scenes are very long and are stitched together to create the feeling of each episode being one take. You are constantly in the moment with the characters, there is no downtime to let you reflect on what’s happening. You just get ~45 minutes (I can’t remember how long the episodes are) of non-stop tension and gut punches but you can only really start to process them when the credits roll. Because of that it’s a difficult show to binge for some.
The episodes actually are one take, apparently
https://variety.com/2025/artisans/news/adolescence-one-take-episodes-netflix-1236339292/
Wow, that makes it even more ambitious and impressive! There were scenes where I felt for sure that they’d pulled off some clever stitching.
Same, I was distracted for the first 10 minutes trying to watch out for a cut!
In that first episode I thought they were using the interview and waiting rooms in the police station, so every time they pulled back to that busier corridor it would have been the start of filming.
Yes, I knew they were shot with one take. Very impressive indeed.