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Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?

Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?

Update: 2025-07-11
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Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?



In the final episode of our Adolescence series, Jacob Krueger explores the creative opportunities and constraints of the limited series format. Through a detailed breakdown of the structure of Episode 4 of Adolescence, and the way it fits into the overall structure of the Adolescence limited series— Jacob helps you understand the similarities and differences between building structure and Engine for a Limited Series and a traditional TV Series.  Along the way, you’ll learn how to think about the format of your own TV series in any genre, how to build your own Series Engine, and how to determine whether your writing is best served as a traditional TV comedy, dramedy or drama series or a limited series.



Listeners will learn:



How to know if your idea should be developed as a limited series.

How to build TV structure without relying on recurring characters

The difference between Character & Pattern based series engine in TV Writing.

The structure of Adolescence Episode 4

How to build structure over the full season of a limited series. 

The engine of Adolescence and how it works over all four episodes of the limited series..

How to build an engine, structure and theme in your own limited series.

And much more!



 

Whether you’re debating between film, TV, or something in between, this episode will help you clarify which medium best serves your story—and how to write a limited series that stands out in today’s market.











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Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?

Adolescence Episode 4: Should You Write a Limited Series?

Jacob Krueger