Adolescence fans just spotted chilling moment in first scene that ‘reveals’ ending
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Adolescence viewers have spotted a detail in the opening moments they are convinced ‘gives’ away Jamie Miller’s guilt.
Since being released last week, the four-part series has become the most-watched show on Netflix.
Created by Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham, it stars the latter as Eddie Miller, who is floored when his 13-year-old son Jamie (Owen Cooper) is accused of murdering his female classmate Katie (Emilia Holliday).
The series explores the radicalisation of young boys on the internet, misogyny and incel culture.
Although it at first seems Jamie might be incorrectly accused, by the end of the first episode CCTV footage proves he stabbed Katie to death.
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But now viewers have also realised a detail at the start of the first episode also indicates what is to come.
Jamie (Owen Cooper’s) wallpaper appears to have been cut by a knife (Picture: Netflix)The series, which is filmed in one take, begins with armed police raiding the Miller family home.
As they rush upstairs to arrest the teenager, he is clearly shocked, sitting up in his bed and putting his arms in the air.
While he does this, his hands brush against part of his bedroom wall, where a strip of wallpaper looks like it has been cut off by a knife.
A TikTok user shared a clip of the scene, captioning it: ‘Foreshadowing. Did anyone else notice?’ This cannot have been an accident. The level of detail in this show made it a masterpiece.’
Many others also weighed in too.
‘The rip in the wallpaper is like a knife and it’s as if he is holding it. It amazes me how so many people let this show go right over their heads,’ one commented.
‘I kept looking at the tear on the wall. It bothered me, but I didn’t put that together. Brilliant!!!’ someone else shared.
Viewers believe the cut proves Jamie’s guilt early on (Picture: Ben Blackall/ Netflix)‘Definitely not a coincidence,’ another added.
Meanwhile others said they noticed it in the final scene, which shows Eddie break down after Jamie reveals he will be pleading guilty.
‘The very last scene when the dad is on his bed is like the knife in his back,’ another posited.
Speaking about the viewers discovering early on that Jamie is the killer, writer Jack Thorne said that the series was ‘not a whodunit, but a why-dunit’.
The show’s writer said it was ‘not a whodunit, but a why-dunit’ (Picture: Netflix)While speaking to Metro, Stephen explained he had the idea for Adolescence after hearing about ‘another incident of a young boy stabbing a young girl’.
‘I just wondered, what kind of a society and what kind of a world are we living in where this kind of thing has happened, not once, not twice, three, four, five times? It just really made me curious,’ he said.
He recalling feeling that ‘this was something that we could look at as a society’, adding that his objective ‘was never to point the finger in any way, shape or form, but just to raise the question of why is this happening, and who is to blame? What is to blame? Family, school, society, influences… maybe we’re all kind of accountable.’
He continued: ‘What’s that beautiful saying it takes a village to raise a child? I think maybe that’s something we should look at as a collective. So, it’s not necessarily pointing a finger at one specific individual. It’s the whole thing itself. What would drive a young boy to do something like this?’
Adolescence is streaming on Netflix.
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