After telling the story of the 2021 film Boiling Point with just one shot, director Philip Barantini and actor Stephen Graham have pulled off the same feat four times over in the limited series Adolescence. The Netflix production, debuting Thursday, March 13, follows the story of a 13-year-old accused of the murder of a classmate while the boy’s family, his therapist, and a detective try to determine what happened. As he did with Boiling Point, Barantini filmed each of Adolescence’s four episodes in one continuous take. “Personally, I find myself watching things, and it could be brilliant, but I’ve got one eye on my phone, so you have to really grab me,” Barantini explained to Radio Times. “I think what the one-shot does is makes you sit up, and you can’t take your eyes off it because if you do blink for a second, you miss something. It draws the audience in.