Glenn Stover

Adolescence, on Netflix; the story is as simple as the title and as complex as the times we're in, especially for the adolescence of today. The main British police Detective Investigator, is an anachronism, at first unknowingly gathering evidence of his own shortcomings as a father and as a member of a society out of touch with the youth. The story unfolds in such a manner that I never feel like a bystander. It flows with little space to intellectualize, analyze, or figure out a plot line. So far, in the first episode the evidence gathered by the police have little context, rendering them clueless, in the modern sense of the word. The motive that they are searching for, is not to be found in the police's treasure chest of well-worn criminal motives. An unfamiliar motive, to the police and community at large, seems to be evolving in this story. A motive that fills the air that highschool students breathe in the hallways and alleyways of their lives. After just an episode and a half, a generation gap emerges, so subtle is it, that one may not notice. If after a while, one still doesn't get it... then sadly, you might be part of the dismay and disquietude that today's youth are experiencing in the World that they are thrust into. As a young character in the story kindly points out to his father; he just doesn't want to see his father embarrass himself out of ignorance. Still savoring the one and a half episodes that I viewed, and may even begin again before continuing.~~~