Adolescence: The Netflix Series Haunting Every Parent
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
Drop Dead Serious With Ashleigh Banfield
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🗓️ 27 March 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Drop Dead Serious, Ashleigh sits down with clinical psychologist and best-selling author Dr. John Duffy, who’s spent three decades inside the minds of teenagers... and inside the homes where things go quietly wrong. Together, they unpack the most disturbing moments from the series, and Dr. Duffy reveals the hidden warning signs, and why we so often miss the chance to save our boys before it’s too late.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey everybody. Welcome to Drop Dead Serious. I'm Ashley BANfield, your host. In this episode, |
| 0:11.7 | have you seen this latest hit on Netflix? It's called adolescence. Wow, first of all, |
| 0:22.1 | it's unreal. |
| 0:26.8 | And in this episode, I am going to dive into it because it is gripping. |
| 0:28.9 | It is brutally honest. |
| 0:30.2 | It's a four-part miniseries. |
| 0:40.4 | It follows the arrest, isolation, and prosecution of a 13-year-old boy accused of murdering a girl from his school. But this series doesn't focus on the victim, as most series do. This series focuses on the boy, on the perpetrator. |
| 0:46.9 | It focuses on the fallout, on the family, on the shame, the systems that either failed or just weren't built yet for a child who |
| 0:57.3 | was capable of killing. After watching adolescence, I could not stop thinking about it. And if you've |
| 1:04.5 | seen it, I think you know, well, if you know, you know, right? The way that they showed the |
| 1:10.1 | arrest of this kid was so jarring and |
| 1:12.4 | memorable. I don't think I'll ever shake it. The scenes in the police station with, again, a 13-year-old |
| 1:19.0 | boy who had just wet his pants because he was being arrested. And then just this incredible |
| 1:25.8 | devolution of a family. They literally unravel sort of before your eyes. And again, this is the family of the perpetrator. We're not even talking about how awful things are for the victim at this point. Just the perpetrator. It is a fascinating look. The filmmaker said they wanted to do something very different. They wanted to look |
| 1:45.4 | into the other side of crime that doesn't get a lot of attention. The perpetrator. Why the |
| 1:51.2 | perpetrator does what he does, especially at 13, especially a 13 year old who at times can have so |
| 1:58.1 | much bravado, but then at other times is just a little boy. |
| 2:03.2 | Because that's reality. And I've got to be honest with you, when I was watching this series, |
| 2:08.3 | sometimes I thought I was watching a documentary, not like a major cinematic production. |
| 2:14.2 | But that's what it was. And to that point, you will be shocked when you watch this |
| 2:20.3 | because eventually, if you don't already know it, you will catch on that every single episode |
| 2:25.6 | is one take, one continuous shot for the whole, you know, almost hour. It is absolutely |
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