Adolescence Season 2 Update: Creators Say There's No Story Yet

Few shows were as striking in 2025 as Jack Thorne and Stephen Graham's one-shot miniseries Adolescence. It topped Netflix charts worldwide, was watched for more than 555 million hours in the past year and won four Golden Globes, yet it was billed as a standalone miniseries — which prompted immediate talk of a second season.

Stephen Graham recently suggested a return lived "somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind and Jack’s mind," saying they might "pull it out in three or four years." Jack Thorne pushed back in an interview, laughing, "I love Stephen Graham, but sometimes…" He added, "What I can tell you is, we don't know what that is so.

So, maybe," and dismissed rumours of a prison-set follow-up: "No, we're not doing one about prisons. We're not doing one about prisons at all." Thorne concluded, "No, we don't have a story.

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