Netflix Series 🎥 Review: “Atypical”. Critics gave it an 80% the users a 95%.

Rated: TV-MA 3 Seasons with Ten 30 min episodes/season, with IMDb of 8.3/10.

Cast (seasons 1-3): Jennifer Jason Leigh, Keir Gilchrist, Brigette Lundy-Paine, Amy Okuda, Michael Rapaport, Sara Gilbert and Eric McCormack. just to name a few.

This heartfelt comedy follows Sam, a teenager on the autism spectrum, who has decided he is ready for romance. In order to start dating -- and hopefully find love -- Sam will need to be more independent, which also sends his mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) on her own life-changing path. She and the rest of Sam's family, including a scrappy sister and a father seeking a better understanding of his son, must adjust to change and explore what it means to be "normal."

Atypical is a coming-of-age television series created by Robia Rashid for Netflix. It focuses on the life of 18-year-old Sam Gardner (Keir Gilchrist), who is on the autism spectrum. The first season was released on August 11, 2017, consisting of eight episodes. The ten-episode second season was released on September 7, 2018. In October 2018, the series was renewed for a third season of ten episodes, which was released on November 1, 2019.

First off this is like something I have never seen before. It’s a show about the everyday life of a family with an 18 year old boy with autism. Not the extreme kind, but the kind that makes it just bearable for him to go to school and keep a part time job - and wanting girls (Oh Yea).

I guarantee you will be enamored over the characters in this series from the very first series and it grows on you to the point where you can’t stop watching. With 30 minute episodes you can binge thru this in nothing flat, that’s the good news. Speaking from one that’s watched all 3 seasons……….I truly wished there was more.

Kudos to the writers and actors for portraying a "normal" family with such real challenges given their situation, in such a realistic and amazing way. Nothing is overly exaggerated and it’s far more realistic and very touching.

It's nice that there is finally a well written series starring a kid with autism, great cast of actors, great story lines and well thought out.

What more can I say - be sure and watch the trailer then……..watch the series.

I truly believe you will love it!