Director Philip Barantini, who has a seven-year-old daughter, hopes that the show will makes viewers more sympathetic to what young people are going through today, explaining in the press notes, “When I was growing up,

Stephen Graham and Jack Thorne's four-part series about a 13-year-old boy accused of murder shrewdly dismantles its own genre with striking, episode-long oners.

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