Adolescence Writer Reacts To Stephen Graham's Latest Season 2 Comments

After Stephen Graham teased fans with a recent update about a potential season two of Adolescence, his co-creator has added his thoughts to the topic.

Last month, after collecting the Golden Globe for his performance as father Eddie Miller in the Netflix drama, Stephen was asked about the chance of the show returning for a second series.

“I cannot answer that question because it’s somewhere in the deep recesses of my mind and Jack [Thorne, his co-creator]’s mind, and we’ll pull it out in three or four years,” he told reporters in the awards show’s press room.

Weeks later, during a recent appearance on The One Show, award-winning screenwriter Jack Thorne said there could likely be a second season of the Netflix drama, but fans might be in for a wait.

“There’s not going to be a second series that involves the Miller family,” he confirmed to presenters Alex Jones and Lauren Laverne.

“So, if we ever do anything else with the format, which we might do in years to come [it won’t involve the Millers]. But we’ve got nothing at the moment.”

He also admitted: “Stephen said there might be something at the back of our brains somewhere, there isn’t anything. I’ve got this brain and I know Stephen’s brain and there is nothing there at the moment, but give us time and there might be something else.”

Adolescence is the sixth project Stephen and Jack worked on together, and they are both keen that it won’t be the last.

“We love the one shot format, so if we were going to do something else using the one-shot format, that might be a sort of… at the moment, there’s nothing,” Jack told the BBC show.

It’s no surprise the writing duo keep getting asked about a second series.

Adolescence is one of Netflix’s highest rated and most-watched shows, making UK TV viewing history last year when it was watched by 6.45 million people in its first week, and was subsequently nominated for 13 Emmys, winning nine.

Not only did it make a star of its lead, Owen Cooper, who will next be seen in Emerald Fennell’s Wuthering Heights as a young Heathcliff, but it also made Stephen and Jack two of the most in-demand creators in television.

Jack was appearing on the One Show couch to promote his new adaptation of Lord Of The Flies, which will air on BBC One on Sunday 8 February at 9pm. 

All four episodes of Adolescence are streaming now on Netflix.