Not many new Netflix dramas get an immediate review from the prime minister at the dispatch box during PMQs. It didn’t even happen with Squid Game, and that particular story of sociopathic greed and amorality turned up in September 2021, in the same week that Boris Johnson reshuffled his cabinet. So you might think it easily could have done.

On Wednesday, Sir Keir Starmer was called upon to discuss the flawless Adolescence, in which Stephen Graham plays the father of a 13-year-old boy accused of murder. “Everyone is talking about Adolescence,” began Anneliese Midgley, the Labour MP for Knowsley. Complex and nuanced, it is a raw, devastating story of children who are lost to their parents; of boys — and also girls