I SPENT A lot of time this week, thanks to Adolescence, thinking about side-sitting. Side-sitting is, literally, sitting next to somebody, shoulder-to-shoulder, looking at the same thing. It is, as stereotypes go, something men do a lot. It is how my son and I spend half our time. At football, to and from football. At gigs. We do it while playing games, nestled on a sofa and, while doing all of these things, we talk. A lot. Which has never felt so important.
Because Adolescence is actually a very simple show. It is the story of a boy, Jamie, who kills a girl, Katie, and there is no whodunnit. He did it – that boy. The series then goes into why he did it, through investigations at his school and,…
