Adolescence

Thumbs way up for Adolescence, which I only now just watched. Wow, what an achievement—just as a piece of storytelling, to say nothing of the one-take construction.

I think people are going overboard with the one-take thing (Birdman, The Studio) but this has to be the most incredible use of it. In the first episode, I was thinking, wow the VFX to stitch this together is seamless—well, there wasn’t any. It truly was one take per episode.

Here’s how they did it.

I will say that the show started out promising more of a procedural than a character study. It seemed like there was going to be some kind of murder mystery, when there really isn’t. But it is absolutely stellar as a character study. Bravo.