« Teenascence », the series: the plot, what is and why this drama on the fragility of teenagers is successful (vote 9)

I am 24 million viewsproudly says Netflix, today will be double or triple. The new series we are talking about is an English of Yorkshire and is called « Teenascence « : it is beautiful in form and in substance, they are Four episodes of one hour All shot in sequence plans, without detachments, with some small and legitimate makeup.

It is not a fantasy story, it is not romantic, it is not dystopian (indeed, today we speak today), it is not dozen, does not make you laughhas no elements that generally determine the success of a Global consumer product. Yet it is in the top ten of 71 countriesall accomplices of this fact of news that no one can consider foreign.

The same goes, in other contexts, for Roberto Benigni’s success on Rai1 with his splendid monologue on Europe To restore (but it was a coincidence) the truth about Ventotene manifesto: Something has changed in the tastes of people and in his « feeling ».

Has read in the thoughts and heart of the author of the Life is beautiful And he entered the sad story of a family whose 13 -year -old boy is arrestedaccused of having killed one of his peers school companion. A simple and honest family, with that spoken a little different that Ken Loach’s films have.

The fact that the miniseries conceived by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham (The amazing actor who supports the role of his father) directed by Philip Barantini was shot without detachmententering first at home then at school then running to chase a boy, finally in the maze of a hypermarket, finally still at home, dribbling doors and windows, then redone several times as in the theaterlearning the text little by little but without being able to afford the luxury of making mistakes and redoing, then choosing the version improvemeans for us that we see it that Life is just like cinemabecause the time is the real one.

That’s what happens to us, told without deception and without trickswithout assembly, without the music that affects our emotions. They are 4 moments, close over time, only a handful of months passes: in the first episode The police, in the doncaster, with a chief inspector, a sergeant and some policemen, The door of the house breaks and breaks through at dawnas there was the godfather, for arrest an sleepy boy (a thrilling actor, debutant) that is brought into custody, questioned and searchedalways declaring itself extraneous to the facts; In the secondthree days later, the policemen investigate the school, questioning his companions and professors; in the thirdthe most ruthless, we witness, seven months later, al Two interview Between the boy, Jamie, and the psychologist (Erin Doherty, seen in « The Crown ») especially on relationships with girls and on his physical appearance; In the last, 13 months after the murder, let’s see the decay of the family And we hear the phone call of the son who wishes the father on the fatal day of his 50th birthday.

There are no big spoilersif not existential ones, it is a question of understanding why and investigating the Secret uses and social customs of young people, the devastating effects of Cyber ​​bullyingthe so -called culture of sexist contrast (the Radicalization incel) which undermines not only intelligence but also the sensitivity of relationships.

You don’t see the crimejust a video from afar, it’s about going « beyond » and interpreting the rabbies and tenderness of this boy who first denies the crime but then he feels at times the weight of a great fault and an unbridgeable remorse towards the family and in particular of the father who cannot avoid wondering What is his part of guilt.

But it is not a manual of youth sociology, it is a magnificent time which can be seen by a blow and a breath, that shakes a whole familythe identifications, and the school, the institution that is at his side is inevitable. A narrative that leaves its mark, one fantastic progression of psychological symptoms and the performance of this boy, Owen Cooperwhich really is one of one devastating truth For his age: a series that teaches us how cinema explains too The irrational of life With all its tools, even extreme moments that we would like to consider unreal but unfortunately they are less and less.