section_path: Reception/Critical response
section_name: Critical response
paragraph_text: Critical response
  
  Adolescence has been widely praised by critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 99% of 102 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 9.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Stylistically bold and beautifully acted from top to bottom, Adolescence is a masterclass in televisual storytelling and a searing viewing experience that scars." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, calculated a score of 91 out of 100 based on 27 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
  
  Writing in The Guardian, Lucy Mangan stated that Adolescence was "the closest thing to TV perfection in decades", singling out the acting by Cooper and Doherty for particular praise. Nandini Balial of RogerEbert.com also praised Cooper's acting for capturing "the quicksilver nature of those fraught years between childhood and adulthood". Anita Singh of The Daily Telegraph found the series to be "quietly devastating" and the acting to be "phenomenal", although she said that the single-take filming technique could feel "like a gimmick ". Sophie Butcher of Empire praised the continuous shooting, stating that it was "the most dizzying TV feat of the year" which served to enhance the on-screen emotion.
  
  Adolescence was the first streaming show to place at the top of the Barb Audiences weekly television ratings.
  
  Adolescence has been widely praised by critics. On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, 99% of 102 critics' reviews are positive, with an average rating of 9.4/10. The website's consensus reads: "Stylistically bold and beautifully acted from top to bottom, Adolescence is a masterclass in televisual storytelling and a searing viewing experience that scars." Metacritic, which uses a weighted average, calculated a score of 91 out of 100 based on 27 reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".
  
  Writing in The Guardian, Lucy Mangan stated that Adolescence was "the closest thing to TV perfection in decades", singling out the acting by Cooper and Doherty for particular praise. Nandini Balial of RogerEbert.com also praised Cooper's acting for capturing "the quicksilver nature of those fraught years between childhood and adulthood". Anita Singh of The Daily Telegraph found the series to be "quietly devastating" and the acting to be "phenomenal", although she said that the single-take filming technique could feel "like a gimmick ". Sophie Butcher of Empire praised the continuous shooting, stating that it was "the most dizzying TV feat of the year" which served to enhance the on-screen emotion.
  
  Adolescence was the first streaming show to place at the top of the Barb Audiences weekly television ratings.