Adolescence creator shares 'abuse' after Netflix show criticism The Netflix show proved a hit with millions of viewers watching globally The uncomfortable series aimed to showcase the rising violence against women and girls (Image: Netflix ) Adolescence creator Jack Thorne has opened up about the "abuse" he's received since the hit series aired on Netflix earlier this year. Adolescence is a limited four-part series that was uploaded to Netflix in March and very quickly made an impact across its viewership. ‌ The crime drama centres around 13-year-old Jamie Miller who is arrested one morning on suspicion of murdering a schoolmate. It's a difficult watch as Jamie is brought into the police station and questioned about his potential involvement in the fatal stabbing of a young girl. ‌ Adolescence was dubbed a "must watch" by many viewers after it first aired on the streaming platform. The series comments on the rise of "incel culture" and "red pill" content, with young men throughout the show referring to the "80/20 rule" - that 80% of women are attracted to only 20% of men. Jack Thorne worked with This Is England's Stephen Graham to create the show, attended the Parliament’s Women And Equalities Committee and was asked if he's had any backlash or personal criticism since the show aired. He shared: "Yeah, I’ve had a bit, and I’m very comfortable with it. You know that I’m a bald, skinny, weird looking man, and some people have made something of the fact that I’m a bald, skinny, weird looking man, and saying these things and that somehow my masculinity is the reason why I’ve questioned other people’s masculinity. Article continues below "Well, if you look at how Stephen Graham looks, he looks more male than anyone else on the planet, I think, and so we’re a combination of things and we work together on it all." Jack Thorne opened up about the personal criticism he had received after the show (Image: PA, Parliament TV ) He continued: "So yes my looks have been put under the microscope a little bit by it all but I’m absolutely comfortable with those questions being answered, and that’s the thing, when I talk about boys feeling that they need to look a certain way. ‌ "When I grew up, my role model was Jarvis Cocker, and Jarvis Cocker made it OK to look like I do. If you’re being told constantly the only way that you can have any legitimacy is if you’ve got muscles, that’s hard for some boys. I would have found it very hard because I don’t grow muscles very easily." Executive producer Emily Feller added that they "put an awful lot of safeguarding around our younger cast members" and that they "wrapped people around with a lot of advice and a lot of safeguarding. We haven’t had too much of a negative response towards those people". Speaking about the TV industry’s reluctance to make shows like his own, Thorne admitted: "I think TV’s become quite conservative, and I think the reason why TV’s become quite conservative is because we are frightened about how to get international finance. Article continues below "And often if you’re trying to do something a bit wilder, it becomes very hard to attract international finance, and it’s very hard to make something for BBC or Channel 4, ITV, without international finance. "And I do worry about the next generation of writers, that they will be told the way to get a show made is by putting a murder in it."