[This story contains spoilers up to episode three of Adolescence.]

Everyone’s talking about Netflix drama Adolescence, and Erin Doherty knows why.

The four episodes of Netflix’s latest miniseries (hailed as “perfection,” a “masterclass” and “powerful TV“) are each filmed in one, consecutive shot, leaving audience members flummoxed at the stellar acting and trying to make sense of how director Philip Barantini did it.

The script from Jack Thorne (His Dark Materials) and Stephen Graham (Peaky Blinders) tells the story of Jamie (Owen Cooper), a 13-year-old boy who is accused of stabbing a girl from school to death. Viewers are taken through the grisly process from start to finish: his shocking arrest and first police interview, the detectives attempting to put the pieces of the case together, a child psychologist sent to assess Jamie and the family forced to re-evaluate every parental decision that led to this life-altering event.

Graham and Christine Tremarco play Jamie’s parents with...