Adolescence, a new Netflix series starring and co-written Stephen Graham, barrels into several timely (and uncomfortable) topics, including bullying, misogyny, online radicalization, and "incel" culture.

The star says the special approach to the show from producer Warp Films, co-creator and writer Jack Thorne and director Philip Barantini, meant that he was "the most zen as an actor I've ever been."

With Adolescence released on the day her son turned 13, our TV columnist Sara Wallis explains why the intense drama filled her with dread

About a 13-year-old boy accused of murder, the Netflix series 'Adolescence' subverts its genre through episode-long oners that reframe the mystery.

Among the influences put forward by the show is the rise in incel (involuntarily celibate) culture, an online movement of people who define themselves as unable to find a romantic or sexual partner and blame, objectify and denigrate women and girls as a result.

For teenagers, the stats are even bleaker: eighty-three per cent of all murdered teens (64 in total) were done so with a knife. This is the issue that Netflix’s new drama Adolescence wants to address.

These are the haunting questions at the core of Adolescence, Netflix's latest crime drama that will have you questioning everyone and everything. With each episode filmed in one uninterrupted take, the raw intensity of the harrowing situation at hand is only propelled by the cast ensemble featuring Stephen Graham,