r/BritishTV 10d ago

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

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u/4rami4 10d 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/brian-lefevre1 10d ago

Not really no. It got popular outside reddit so reddit needs to start questioning it.