Stephen Graham has an idea of where Adolescence season 2 could go
Stephen Graham has said there is a 'possibility' the Netflix show will be back for season 2.
Stephen Graham has shared his take on what a second season of Adolescence could cover, after the powerful Netflix drama defied all expectations to become a global hit.
The four-part one-take drama lifted the lid on how young boys can be radicalised into misogynists online and became a talking point among parents and politicians alike.
The four episodes follow the psychological fallout after a 13-year-old boy, Jamie, murders a girl, Katie, from his class at school.
While the show was billed as a limited series, its enormous reception has prompted Graham to discuss where he thinks a season two could go – as he says it is still ‘a possibility’.
He told Variety: ‘If we were to go again, would I like it to go again? With a different story completely? Yes.’
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Graham said the focus would shift to a new family and he went on to discuss the victim Katie’s family, which was a perspective absent from the Netflix drama.
The drama was a huge international hit (Picture: Ben Blackall/Netflix) Graham said the focus would shift to another family (Picture: Netflix)‘Rightfully so, if we were a conventional drama, you would look at it from Katie’s perspective and we’d see the aftermath of Katie’s family,’ Graham said.
‘But I felt like we’d have seen that. We’ve seen that many a time. We haven’t really seen this side.’
He continued: ‘I wanted to make sure that Jamie didn’t come from a household where the mum was an alcoholic, or the dad was violent, or he’d been molested by one of his uncles.
Graham said they probably can’t catch lightning in a bottle twice (Picture: Netflix)‘No disrespect, but. thematically, those are things that happen in conventional dramas which are understandable. I just wanted to shake the box a little bit, see what else we could find in there.’
Graham also said that, while he would be keen to do another season, he is aware the show would probably not be as big a smash hit.
‘That’s once in a lifetime,’ he said. ‘We tapped straight into the zeitgeist. You’ve just had something that’s gone everywhere. I mean, number one in Brazil? Number one in Saudi Arabia?’
Adolescence is available to stream on Netflix.
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