Adolescence

Though each episode reveals a new corner of the social fabric that underlies young male isolation in the internet age, the binding factor is the one-shot cinematography. The effectiveness of this show comes from its Rashomon-like perspective shifts; key characters disappear for entire episodes, but the continuity of the peering camera acts as the pervasive invisible social force of patriarchy itself. This is most evident in the fourth episode, whose protagonist, Jamie's father, is most closely anchored to the viewer. Character interactions, even altruistic ones, are all influenced by implicit social expectations, any individual one of which would likely go uninterrogated. The show's surface layer may sometimes veer toward PSA-level bluntness, but there's an enormous amount of depth and ambiguity to be found, and a brilliant formal approach to deconstructing a social contagion.