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Atypical

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Generally favorable reviews based on 23 Critic Reviews

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Series Details & Credits

Netflix | Release Date: August 11, 2017

Summary: The decision to begin dating by Sam Gardner (Keir Gilchrist), a high school senior with autism worries his overprotective mother (Jennifer Jason Leigh) in this coming-of-age comedy series created by Robia Rashid.

Genre(s): Comedy, Drama

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66

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Mixed:

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Critic Reviews

90

Reason.com

Glenn Garvin

Aug 13, 2017

Season 1 Review: Extraordinary. Read full review

85

TV Guide

Megan Vick

Sep 5, 2018

Season 2 Review: Season 2 helps further break the preconceived mold that this is "The Autism Family Show." While Sam's disorder provides a unique perspective to the world of Atypical, the show is about so much more than that. Season 2 pushes this even further, as it was supposed to do, and finds new ways to enlighten, inspire and surprise by endearing us deeper to its characters. Read full review

80

Los Angeles Times

Lorraine Ali

Aug 10, 2017

Season 1 Review: The series is as compassionate as it is snarky, pairing a deep understanding about everyday life on the spectrum with a sense of humor rarely found in productions that deal with autism. “Atypical” risks offending some, but it does more good than harm by demystifying a sensitive and painful subject with an unapologetic candor. Read full review

70

New York Magazine (Vulture)

Jen Chaney

Aug 10, 2017

Season 1 Review: All of the performances in the show are great, which is helpful since the writing occasionally slips into predictable rhythms. Read full review

67

IndieWire Ben Travers

Aug 11, 2017

Season 1 Review: Sam’s through-line is solid, and his supporting players offer more pleasant surprises than frustrating distractions. Read full review

65

Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

Rob Owen

Aug 9, 2017

Season 1 Review: When Atypical keeps its focus on the teen characters, including Sam’s ready-to- leap-to-his-defense younger sister, Casey (an outstanding Brigette Lundy-Paine), the series is at its best if sometimes most familiar. The show turns more annoyingly soapy when it turns to Sam’s father, Doug (Michael Rappaport), and mother, Elsa (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Read full review

33

The A.V. Club

John Hugar

Aug 11, 2017

Season 1 Review: This show desperately wants to get its depiction of autism right, and wants to pat itself on the back for doing so. All of which makes the uninspired characterization of Sam all the more infuriating. Read full review

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KeenWatcher

Nov 22, 2019

Definitely a hidden gem on Netflix, feels a lot like The Fosters except a slightly more serious note. It can be emotional to watch but that’s what makes it so good as a show.

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ManVil81

Nov 26, 2019

I love Sam! I love his dad, and I love everything about this series except for his sister and his psycologist. I hate them both!

You must watch this show and enjoy it! 100% recommendable.

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frederikbh

Dec 12, 2019

As a person with higher functioning autism, I find some aspects of this show relatable and depicted in a funny and wholesome way. If you are at all interested in the topic of autism (which you should be) I suggest giving this show a watch.

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Patriot173

Feb 24, 2020

The show gets a lot of flak for being about a person with Autism, but I can't help but feel like the majority of people calling for it to be canceled haven't bothered to watch an episode.

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Marionnnnnne

Aug 28, 2020

Es una serie que logra transmitir los sentimientos de todos los personajes, su elenco es magnífico y el guión es dinámico y entretenido

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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Langgoose

Jan 20, 2023

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I watched all 4 seasons. I was entertained by its humor and drama. At the same time, it drove me crazy. All of the characters are relatable. They're the kind of people I like to know in real life. The reason it drove me crazy is the breakup that happens with the daughter. Who then becomes intimate with a troublesome girl who never leaves the show. I get it. A story to put alternative relationship experiences in the spotlight. Fine. But did the writers have to break the boyfriend's heart like that?? It was painful to watch. Their relationship was cute and special. Then the writers just ended it abruptly. I still don't know if what the writers made her do is believable to the character. To make it all worse they never give her ex-boyfriend a convincing closure. It's just a sad ending for this guy. Other than that, I like everything else about this show. The characters and the actors who portray them are superb.… Expand

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jjnoahjames

Jul 30, 2021

This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Season 4 Game-of-Thrones-Season-7's the show. The show has charm because of the main character and storyline and that puts it above the rest. I like this style of show it reminds me of 13 Reasons Why and End of the F'ing World or even Ragnarok. It's like that but more funny and raunchy (a little too raunchy for my taste). I'm really sick of raunchy shows. Anyway it's still an amazing TV show.... until the end of season 3 when they sacrifice one of the most amazing characters for the sake of an uncreative lgbtqa storyline. They take the most amazing character, one of the people who has the biggest heart and loves more people than anyone in the whole show and then takes a dump on this person. There's nothing wrong with lgbtqa storylines. Matter of fact it's disrespectful to that community that the creators force a story line and take out a beautiful person in it name. The best lgbtqa people have always had class. This show does NOT (circa season 4). It's the fact that the character elimination was forced and used to sacrifice one of the most lovable and humble characters TOO QUICKLY. NOW, to make it worse the cast forgets about this character and they haven't pushed anyone else out of the show at this point AT ALL. He's the first. Nowadays characters can be sacrificed instantly a-la Game of Thrones but the one person that they sacrifice is the most likable. The writers do it hyper swiftly to the point that the cast doesn't seem to care anymore about this person and they treat him like he almost never existed, the nicest person and person involved in the second best storyline of the show, right after Sam was saying that he could be his new best friend! Yet they keep the Zahid who is great but comes across a bit mysoginistic. It almost reminds me of how Daenerys changed too quickly, going against some of her own words, and that ruined season 7. Daenerys going insane makes sense overall but it just didn't seem like the timing was right. We wanted to see more fuel to the fire, more reasons, something was arry with the writing. Game of Thrones SE7 will go down in history as one of the worst of all time. Atypical SE4 isn't much different.What can I say? Binge TV was awesome in the beginning. Now it seems like Netflix almost has a formula to make it work. Maybe the masterminds of writing have it all figured out. I'm sure someone somewhere has all kinds of charts and graphs about how writing has evolved and what makes a good bin show and they probably have some algorithm that shows when interesting things need to happen but despite all that.... I guess you could call it predictability of unpredictability... Despite all that the show has charm because of the main character and storyline and that puts it above the rest. I won't give any spoilers but I like this style of shows it reminds me of 13 Reasons Why and End of the F'ing World or even Ragnarok. It's like that but more funny and more raunchy (a little too raunchy for my taste). I'm really sick of raunchy shows. Anyway it's still an amazing TV show.... until the end of season 3 when they sacrifice one of the most amazing characters for the sake of an uncreative lgbtqa storyline. They take the most amazing character, one of the people who has the most heart and loves more people than anyone in the whole show and then takes a dump on this person. There's nothing wrong with lgbtqa storylines. Matter of fact it's disrespectful to that community that the creators force a story line and take out a beautiful person in it name. The best lgbtqa people have always had class. This show does NOT (circa season 4). It's the fact that the character elimination was forced and used to sacrifice one of the most lovable and humble characters TOO QUICKLY. NOW, to make it worse the cast way forgets about this character too fast and they haven't pushed anyone out of the show at this point AT ALL. He's the first. Nowadays characters can be sacrificed instantly a-la Game of Thrones but the one person that they sacrifice is the most likable. The writers do it hyper swiftly to the point that the cast doesn't seem to care anymore about this person nd they treat him like he almost never existed, right after Sam saying that he could be his new best friend! Yet they keep the Zahid who is great but comes across a bit mysoginistic if you ask me. It almost reminds me of how Daenerys changed too quickly, going against some of her own words, and that ruined season 7. Daenerys going insane makes sense overall but it just didn't seem like the timing was right. We wanted to see more fuel to the fire, more reasons, something was arry with the writing. Game of Thrones SE7 will go down in history as one of the worst of all time. Atypical SE4 isn't much different.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 4

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  Air Date: July 9, 2021
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Season 3

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  Air Date: November 1, 2019
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  Air Date: September 7, 2018
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  Air Date: August 11, 2017