Adolescence director Philip Barantini has quashed the season 2 rumors once and for all.
The series, which followed troubled teenager Jamie, was a megahit on Netflix, and made lead star Owen Cooper the youngest male Best Actor Emmy winner ever.
Fans hoped there would be a season 2 of the one shot series, but director Barantini declared that won’t happen.
In a talk about how the hit show was made at Content London today, Barantini said, “For me, it’s about ultimately working with good people, nice people,” he said.
“There is no sequel to this, but we as a collective want to continue to work together on multiple things,” he continued.
“We captured lightning in a bottle in terms of how we shot it, I but also the reach we had. That doesn’t mean every project going forwards can’t have the same ethos,” he added.
Barantini was joined by the writer Adolescence co-writer Jack Thorne, who wondered if the show had been a success had it they tried to sell it territory by territory.
“If we were on Channel 4, we would have done well [in the UK], but I’d be interested whether we’d have sold abroad,” he said. “Would other countries have wanted to buy this show? My experience is the shows that don’t sell are the one with regional accents, where it’s about something particuarly British. I don’t know if we would have got those international sales.”
Meanwhile, Philip Barantini is currently working on adapting Jade Franks’ one-woman play Eat the Rich (But Maybe Not Me Mates X) into a Netflix series.
