Jack Thorne has said he loved Lord of the Flies as an awkward teenager and sees himself partly in its Simon; Adolescence is likewise about how quickly boys left to their own world turn on one of their own.
TV Series· 2025· Drama
Adolescence
by Jack Thorne, Stephen Graham
Adolescence: it draws on 2 recorded sources.
What influenced Adolescence
The works this one is recorded as drawing on.
Real-world influences
Events, places, movements and ideas outside fiction that this work is recorded as drawing on.
Politics & Society
Real world
Real-world influenceHIGH
- Online radicalisation
- Misogyny
The series follows a thirteen-year-old boy arrested for murdering a classmate, and was written in response to knife crime and the online misogyny of the manosphere reaching boys.