Archive · 29 Nov 2025

Netflix's Adolescence: A Groundbreaking Single-Take Series

Netflix's Adolescence: A Groundbreaking Single-Take Series

Adolescence is a new series on Netflix that tells the story of a 13-year-old boy named Jamie who is arrested for murder.

The show is special because each episode is filmed in one long, uninterrupted take, which means the camera keeps rolling the whole time without stopping.

This was a big challenge for the people behind the camera, Matthew Lewis and Lee David Brown.

They had to practice a lot and work together very closely to make it work.

They used a special lightweight camera that they could pass between them easily.

The series won eight Emmy Awards and talks about important issues like cyberbullying and the effects of social media on young people.

The team behind the show is happy with how it turned out and might make another series like this in the future, but not right away.

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