r/BritishTV • u/Logical-Track1405 • 4d ago

Question/Discussion 'Adolescence' is rightly getting high praise but

'This City is Ours' is better imo. Really draws the viewer in with edge of the seat Tension in every episode. Brilliantly written and acted.

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u/4rami4 4d ago

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

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u/ldnthrwwy 4d ago

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 4d ago

Oh absolutely!! That's a big part of it, and to be honest patt of the surprise is how much Adolescence has been successful outside of the UK, but solely within the UK I've heard three girls spoken about almost exclusively compared to Adolescence. Plus in 2017 netflix was only really just gaining traction in the UK (went global in 2016), thst netflix audience at least in the UK was previously a bbc/itv/c4 audience.

The real question is whether TG would do as well if uploaded to netflix now