Is Adolescence based on a true story?While Jamie’s story, specifically, isn’t based on a real person or event, the idea for the series did spring from reports that co-creator Graham had heard about on the news, of young boys being involved in knife crimes.
“There was an incident where a young boy [allegedly] stabbed a girl,” Graham tells Tudum. “It shocked me. I was thinking, ‘What’s going on? What’s happening in society where a boy stabs a girl to death? What’s the inciting incident here?’ And then it happened again, and it happened again, and it happened again. I really just wanted to shine a light on it, and ask, ‘Why is this happening today? What’s going on? How have we come to this?’ ”
Thorne adds that, as the process went on, he, Graham, and Barantini grew fascinated by the question of male rage and started thinking about themselves as men, fathers, partners, and friends, and “questioning with some intensity” who they were as people, and particularly as men. “That is a journey I’ve never gone on as a writer before, and it scared me and excited me because it felt like we had something to say,” says Thorne.
https://www.netflix.com/tudum/articles/adolescence-cast-release-date-photos-news Co-creator Stephen Graham has said that one of the real-life incidents that inspired Adolescence was a ‘young girl in south London who was stabbed to death at a bus stop’ – a reference to the 2023 murder of Elianne Andam by Hassan Sentamu in Croydon.
Everyone knows that this had nothing to do with the manosphere, and that the backgrounds of the perpetrator and victim were very different from the characters in Adolescence.
The actual case was a black teenager murdering another black teenager at a bus stop.
Such knife crime is overwhelmingly black crime in London, according to the London Mayor's office.
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