Jack Tame: Netflix' Adolescence is devastatingly perfect - Saturday Morning with Jack Tame

The time was 3.34am on a Wednesday morning and I lay there wideawake.

I pressed the screen on my phone to check the time any messages, I wondered? I flipped my pillow, shifted my weight and tried to sleep.

The obvious cause of my insomnia was the five-week-old grunting and squirming in his sleep sack, a few feet away from me. But it wasn’t the humidity, or the Police helicopter making one of its swoops over the neighbourhood, and this insomnia wasn't caused by a baby.

It was caused by Adolescence.

My wife and I had watched the final episode, episode four, a few hours earlier. The episode finished, like most of them, in devastating fashion. I sat there, turning over the story in my mind.

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