Over the weekend at the Golden Globes, British actor Stephen Graham walked away with yet another acting award for the hit family crime drama “Adolescence” alongside his fellow co-stars Erin Doherty and Owen Cooper, after the trio had won at The Emmys. So, of course, given the show’s amazing reception and massive viewership numbers, there has been some interest in the possibility of a follow-up season or something else from that creative team (who previously worked together on the intense chef drama “Boiling Point“).
Asked directly by Deadline about a second season, Graham remained tight-lipped concerning concrete details, but was able to give a simple “stay tuned” and added that it could be around 3-4 years away as he’s mulling over ideas with co-creator Jack Thorne (we have to assume director Philip Barantini would also be involved here).
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“I cannot answer that question because it’s somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind and Jack’s mind, and we’ll pull it out in three or four years, so stay tuned,” Graham teased when asked during the Golden Globes by Deadline about a follow-up to the first season of “Adolescence.”
That is certainly a promising update, and would suggest that they’re not ready to announce anything, or deals aren’t entirely in place, which would make sense if they haven’t entirely figured out ideas or a concept (Graham hinting he and Thorne may still be in the brainstorming stage, which is fair given they’ve been busy with awards shows and promotional tour for the last year for the Netflix show).
The heartwrenching show focuses on a teenage boy murdering a female classmate and the aftermath of those events in one-shot episodes, spotlightly the very real societial crisis of how young men in Britian (and across the globe) are being manipulated by so-called “Manosphere” influencers on the internet like Andrew Tate (an alledged abuser, rapist, and sex trafficker of women) and the real-world consequences of violence that comes from that level of brainwashing children to believe they are “superior” because of their gender.
A phenomenon, “Adolescence” is now being shown in U.K. classrooms in the hope of changing hearts and minds. Graham’s timeline, though, sounds about right, given he is likely due to all the job offers he’s getting and the time needed to get a second season written. There are already rumblings that he might have a juicy part in Michael Mann‘s “Heat 2” (Graham had worked with Mann on “Public Enemies“), although that is currently unconfirmed by the trades (we’ll keep our fingers crossed it comes together.
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