Is Netflix's Adolescence Based on Real Adolescents?

Photo: Courtesy of Netflix Adolescence opens with a dramatic arrest: 13-year-old Jamie is accused of stabbing his classmate Katie to death. The four-part British series - which dropped on Netflix on March 13 and topped the streaming platform's most-watched show list that weekend, according to the BBC - already has famous fans. Paul Feig praised the first episode as "one of the best hours of television" he's ever seen, while Jeremy Clarkson joined viewers in expressing amazement and confusion over the show's use of a drone in the second episode. (Every episode of Adolescence is . . .