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Atypical notes

Before I start Hill House, here's my unsolicited opinions on Atypical (2017) seasons 1 & 2

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Cons

Sam is hovering somewhere around top-tier privileged for an autistic person and I don't want to speak out of my place but the sheer whiteness of the show makes it fall below the radical impact I'm sure the creator intended

Granted they did include a range of POC secondary characters only to REALLY feel like secondary characters. A new wave of black best friends and Indian gurus approaches apparently. :/

This show feels largely autobiographical (getting a strong sense that the creator's brother was austitic?) which would definitely limit its scope but honestly? What about the black girl obsessed w ambulances who would have to work three times as hard for a last minute scholarship? What about the Asian girl who likes to sing but could never afford therapy? What about the black kid who wants to be a dentist but would get immediately sent to jail if a cop mistook his anxiety attack for being high? What about the blonde white girl who's surely been told for years how much she disgusts men for her inability to perform femininity? We don't know because protagonist Sam Gardener never talks to them!!

I hate to sound like I'm *** but coming of age plots that's v strictly about sex esp through the POV of a white boy who gets all his advice from misogynists is tired

I really do love Jessica but I'm not sure why the show has so many POV C plots w her, most of her life is more or less tangential to the Gardeners and all attempts to intertwine her and their plots together feel really forced and awkward. The theatrical irony of knowing the strawberry that ruined her relationship was Sam's lasted only so long

While there may be like three people on the planet as kind and dedicated as her, most therapists are not like this

I get it, I get it but the narration is annoying !!!!! (Not to mention after Sam stops going to therapy and these narration shots are officially non diegetic we're left to wonder where the heck he is and who he's talking to)

Filmmakers pls just accept that you want to add non diegesis and move on

As someone who watches an unhealthy amount of tv I've seen every possible way you can tackle an infidelity plot (w Gone Girl and Dr Foster of course being some of my faves 👀) and I'm sort of yawning thought the Elsa/Doug drama primarily bc

A I have literally no reason to care abt them, they're fairly unlikable / boring and

B it became an increasingly repetitive formula of Elsa assuming her dual wife mother role so enthusiastically it's read as naivety and control freak-ism and Doug goes from Just Standing There to leaving the room while Elsa's abandoned in an empty room

Every interaction is painful and I do not care about their relationship let alone the fact that Doug sleeps in the sun room of all places

No one wants to address the level of white boy emotional suppression you've got to go through to Punch A Wall ™ and call it a day?

Doug

Casey doesn't seem to care about anyone other than Izzie which is really unfortunate for Sharice

The prep school melodrama was nauseating not to mention how rushed the Casey and Izzie arc felt.

On the one hand I'm glad they dropped the mean girl rivalry early and there's a lot to be said about how WLW do behave in this internally conflicted way while navigating compulsory heterosexuality I just feel like they were running through a checklist not telling a story

Frankly most character arcs are either repetitive or rushed to a resolution

I know that real humans really can be ineloquent and bigoted but the arguments w Arlo's parents sounds so fake

Some real Gilmore Girls level of cheesy but at least Gilmore Girls had plausibly original dialogue

V unconvincing Useless Adulting 'What was her name? Ozzie?'

Pro

Occasionally actually poignant stuff abt autism... bc.... it's a show about autism

Was so close to getting the point with their episode on police brutality & ableism (one has to wonder what would happen to Sam if his father wasn't a literal paramedic though? Hmmmmm???)

A lot of elements abt psychiatry and social services etc feel plausibly realistic. That kind of is how group therapy goes

When Zaheed drops the pickup artist crap he's almost endearing

Edison's predecessor was named Tesla

The ickle bickle

Sam is probs able to draw a bicycle and therefore actually get into RISD (that makes one of us)

Amazing how I'm okay with about 70% of Casey's character

Izzie is an angel

And finally:

GAY SH*T

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I feel like the whole Casey being microaggreased for not spending spring break at a vineyard plot falls apart when you realise that the fam is upper middle class and fairly well off considering their house's size and all the costs for Sam's therapy / treatments

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