When Does "Adolescence" (2025) Take Place?
"Adolescence" is a crime television show written by Stephen Graham with Jack Thorne that released March 13th, 2025. So when is "Adolescence" set?
It takes place in the years:
We know this because in the climax of episode one Jamie Miller and the rest of the main cast sit in a British police station and watch some closed-circuit television footage and the closed-circuit TV camera was invented in June of 1927 AD and began to be used for routine surveillance in England in 1960 AD. So it must be after 1927 AD and is most likely after 1960 AD.

2024? AD - 2025? AD
We know this because in the climax of episode one Jamie Miller and the rest of the main cast sit in a British police station and watch some closed-circuit television footage and the closed-circuit TV camera was invented in June of 1927 AD and began to be used for routine surveillance in England in 1960 AD. So it must be after 1927 AD and is most likely after 1960 AD.
More specifically, Jamie is questioned by Detective Inspector Luke Bascombe about his patterns on Instagram, a social media application launched on October 12th, 2010 AD. So it must be after October of 2010 AD.
Specifically, the video is dated in the upperlefthand corner for "2024?". So it is May of 2024 AD at the beginning.
Then, episode three . So it is December of 2024 AD.
5.2,024 + 7 months = 12.2,024.
Finally, episode four . So it is May of 2025 AD at the end.
Finally, episode four . So it is May of 2025 AD at the end.
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