It’s the worst nightmare for any parent. Learning that your child has met their end at the hands of someone unidentified not only upends any semblance of normalcy, thus changing one’s life forever, but has served as fodder for countless forms of content since the dawn of storytelling. Turning the focus towards the assailant isn’t necessarily new. Still, the unique approach taken by the four episodes of “Adolescence,” the latest serial plunge into the genre courtesy of Netflix, elevates a boilerplate premise into something unexpectedly distinct.

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