Ashley Walters & Erin Doherty on Adolescence

Kermode & Mayo’s Take

Sony Music

Tv & Film, Film Reviews, Tv Reviews, Film Interviews

4.4 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2025

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Vanguardistas have more fun—so if you don’t already subscribe to the podcast, join the Vanguard today via Apple Podcasts or extratakes.com for non-fruit-related devices. In return you’ll get a whole extra Take 2 alongside Take 1 every week, with bonus reviews, more viewing recommendations from the Good Doctors and whole bonus episodes just for you. And if you’re already a Vanguardista, we salute you. Our guests this week are Ashley Walters and Erin Doherty, stars of astonishing new Netflix series ‘Adolescence’. With each episode shot in one take, it follows the story of a family left in shock when their teenage son is arrested for murder. Doherty and Walters respectively play the psychologist and detective involved in the case, alongside Stephen Graham—who plays the boy’s father and co-created the series alongside Jack Thorne. Erin & Ashley chat to Simon about the technical feat of shooting the film, how absolutely terrifying the internet can be, and how terrifyingly good first-time teenage actor Owen Cooper definitely is. Mark reviews the series, plus all these new releases: ‘Black Bag’, Steven Soderbergh’s seductive spy comedy following Cate Blanchett and Michael Fassbender as married spooks trying to trace a leak whilst navigating a relationship that must have secrets; ‘Opus’, a fandom thriller about the long-awaited and frighteningly cultish return of fictional pop icon Moretti (John Malkovich), and Karan Kandhari’s madcap Mumbai-set black comedy about arranged marriage, ‘Sister Midnight’. Top quality correspondence from you as always, including a right telling off for Mark, news from ‘the internet’s stinkiest it girl’, and a hello to a bit more of Jason Isaacs than we bargained for in this week’s episode of White Lotus.... Timecodes (for Vanguardistas listening ad-free): Sister Midnight Review: 08:47 Ashley Walters and Erin Doherty Interview: 25:55 Opus Review: 57:04 Laughter Lift: 50:51 Black Bag Review: 1:05:57 You can contact the show by emailing [email protected] or you can find us on social media, @KermodeandMayo EXCLUSIVE NordVPN Deal ➼ https://nordvpn.com/take Try it risk-free now with a 30-day money-back guarantee! A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find more great podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts To advertise on this show contact: [email protected] And to find out more about Sony’s new show Origins with Cush Jumbo, click here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:21.1	Hey, Ben Bailey Smith here. I just want to tell you about some of the amazing stories that are coming to Netflix this month. All of them based on real-life events, each of them unique in different ways. I mean, you literally couldn't make them up. First, chaos Charles Manson, which is available now for streaming. This is a doc from Academy Award winner Errol Morris, who made the thin blue line in the fog of war. It's got really striking individual style and look to his work. And here, he investigates the story of Charles Manson and his cult in a totally fresh way that challenges everything you thought
0:25.1	you knew. That's what got me with this doc. I mean, we often hear the story of the Manson murders
0:29.2	themselves retold, but this is the first time I've seen a deep dive, not just into the origins
0:32.9	of the event itself, but also what part of the CIA, mental health services, probation services, even the
0:37.6	music industry had to play in this thing. It's genuinely eye-opening, even jaw-dropping at times.
0:41.9	It's a crazy, riveting, frankly haunting watch. And if that's not enough for you, it's three
0:45.9	other true stories coming to Netflix this month. Gong Girls, the Long Island serial killer,
0:50.1	Golden Greed, the Hunt for Fens Treasure, and Com Mum, which is a doc about a chef whose life gets upended when this woman walks into his life claiming to be his mother.
0:58.8	So start streaming today for unmissable true stories, only on Netflix.
1:03.8	Hello, film lovers and moviegoers. This is Simon Mayo.
1:06.8	And this is Mark Kermode, bringing you the best podcast for the latest film reviews.
1:10.8	On the take this week.
1:12.2	You can hear reviews of Opus, Black Bag and Sister Midnight.
1:15.9	And our very special guests are...
1:18.4	Aaron Doherty and Ashley Walters,
1:20.7	talking about adolescence and new drama on Netflix.
1:23.9	Plus, the inevitable conversation about Jason Isaacs and White Lotus. How low can you go?
1:32.1	Very, very, very low. And if you're not following to another podcast from us.
1:51.8	This is a traditional greeting, which we don't normally do, but I can see Mark is in a very
1:55.4	colourful t-shirt that looks like an Elvis Costello T-shirt.
1:58.1	Yeah, well, well-spotted.
1:59.4	Yeah, yeah.
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