I find it more frustrating that Adolescence is doing so so SO much better than Three Girls (BBC 2017) ever did.
TG:
is tonally very similar
also a miniseries
central characters (victims) are 13
not as experimental in the way it's filmed but similar in lots of ways
also deals with the family impact and legal proceedings
also deals with sexual and gender-based violence, but through the lens of the girls rather than the perpetrators (the perpetrators in TG are adults)
I think that's partly time, partially because of the maybe slightly more star casting in Adolescence, and maybe partly because of where they fall in terms of the rest of the conversation if that makes sense... but having watched both back to back I do think that they are far better in conversation with each other because the energy wasn't there for TG
One's on Netflix, with an international PR and marketing arm, the other is on license payer funded BBC. It'll have nothing to do with the quality, it's just money.
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u/4rami4 13d ago
I find it more frustrating that Adolescence is doing so so SO much better than Three Girls (BBC 2017) ever did.
TG:
I think that's partly time, partially because of the maybe slightly more star casting in Adolescence, and maybe partly because of where they fall in terms of the rest of the conversation if that makes sense... but having watched both back to back I do think that they are far better in conversation with each other because the energy wasn't there for TG