Erin Doherty Wins Emmy Award for ‘Adolescence’

Erin Doherty, who plays psychologist Briony Ariston in Episode 3 of “Adolescence,” has won her first Emmy award for Outstanding Supporting Actress. While Doherty only appears in one of the four episodes of the Netflix miniseries, it is a marathon two-hander of a story, wherein Ariston assesses teen murderer Jamie Miller’s (Owen Cooper) mental state and awareness of his own guilt.

Executive producer, co-writer, and star Stephen Graham charged his collaborator, executive producer and co-writer Jack Thorne, with turning this episode of “Adolescence” into a “Mamet play.” Thorne and then the show’s crew had to figure out a number of structural and logistical hurdles to nail so that the audience is fully immersed in the back and forth between the two characters, sitting at a table across from each other in an empty playroom on a rainy day. But it is squarely on Doherty’s shoulders to guide the…