When Adolescence dropped on the 2025 TV schedule earlier this 12 months, I plowed via the four-part sequence chronicling the fallout of a vicious homicide of a teenage lady and instantly needed to know the place the sequence would go from there, if it had been to proceed. What co-creators Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham created with the massively common 2025 Netflix sequence was each a technical masterpiece and storytelling at its best. However will it proceed?
I lately caught up with Thorne, who additionally penned the upcoming Enola Holmes 3, and made positive I requested him about whether or not Adolescence will return for a second season, as it has been a preferred matter of dialog amongst followers. Whereas he actually favored telling the story of Jamie Miller (Owen Cooper), a 13-year-old accused of killing a feminine classmate with a knife, he has a distinct concept for what may very well be subsequent.
There’s gonna be no continuation. The Miller story, we predict, is informed. We’d discover a method of utilizing the one-shot. We’re speaking about discovering methods to make use of the one-shot extra otherwise. And we’d love to do this. Possibly it’s concerning the workforce versus discovering a brand new story that we’re simply as captivated with telling. So we’re engaged on that, and speaking about that, however we’ve not discovered the reply fully but, to be sincere.
As our dialog continued, the prolific TV author and playwright admitted there’s something somebody may do with Jamie Miller and even additional flesh out Katie Leonard’s (Emilia Holliday) story. Nevertheless, even when that is true, Season 2 just isn’t presently within the pipeline:
There may be stuff you can do with Jamie as a personality. In fact there may be. However it looks like we have completed telling his story. We have completed telling what bits we wish to inform. And other people say it’d be good to see Katie’s perspective. And you are like, effectively, sure, however perhaps we’re not the proper folks to inform Katie’s story.
Although it appears unlikely that we’ll see extra of Jamie Miller after the heartbreaking Season 1 finale or anybody from Adolescence ever once more (can we get extra from the varsity and its Wire vibes?), it does sound like Thorne could be very a lot desirous about exploring the one-shot format and different storytelling strategies he and co-creator Stephen Graham (he additionally performs Jamie’s dad within the present) developed alongside director Philip Barantini to strive one thing else sooner or later:
I feel all of the characters from Adolescence are rested, and now we’re looking for a brand new method of utilizing that vocabulary as a result of we adore it. And we love working collectively.
Precisely what that concept is stays a thriller at this level, as Thorne didn’t share many particulars about it. It seems like he has lots on his plate with the aforementioned Enola Holmes 3 in addition to his tackle Lord of the Flies, an upcoming book-to-screen adaptation of William Golding’s landmark novel.
In case you haven’t watched Adolescence, regardless of it being one of many largest reveals streaming this 12 months, all 4 episodes can be found with a Netflix subscription.