HACKWATCH Extended Adolescence
WITH Netflix’s
Adolescence
pulling in more than 66m streaming views within a fortnight of its release and topping the UK weekly audience charts ahead of programmes that had actually been broadcast, a lot of British media outlets decided they fancied getting some of that audience. But having exhausted the obvious angles of real-life misogyny and the technical achievement of the one-take episodes, they had to look elsewhere…
21 March: “Brad Pitt’s big secret role in Netflix’s Adolescence: how Hollywood A-lister shaped UK’s hottest drama,” parps the London Standard, revealing the actor was an executive producer on the series. As did the titles of each episode, which read “Executive producer: Brad Pitt” in large letters. Only secretly.
23 March: Hot take from the Law Society Gazette: “Adolescence is brilliant TV but Jamie should have sacked his brief… The police ask for Jamie’s passcode to his phone. Mr Barlow’s advice ‘you don’t need to give them that’ is technically right, on the basis that the police have not obtained a RIPA Notice, contrary to section 49 of the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 (RIPA). However, if a RIPA notice had been obtained, Mr Barlow would have just advised Jamie to commit a criminal offence, contrary to section 53 of RIPA.”