SERIES PREMIERE: This new Netflix series stars Jennifer Jason Leigh as a mother fiercely determined to help her teen child, who’s autistic, navigate the world. Keir Gilchrist plays Sam, an 18-year-old on the higher end of the autism spectrum, and Michael Rapaport and Brigette Lundy-Paine play his father and sister, respectively. Tonally,
Atypical is a comedy with sharp edges, closest on the TV comedy spectrum to ABC’s
Speechless, which is about the supportive yet barely functional family of a nonverbal high school boy with cerebral palsy.
For a full review, see David Hinckley's All Along the Watchtower.