

And because he's autistic, we're supposed to excuse the awful things he does as a result of those misinterpretations, you know, like physical abuse and breaking and entering. Because the protagonist of Atypical is autistic, he has trouble understanding social cues, which means he's constantly misinterpreting the signals coming from everyone, and especially from the opposite sex. how sensitive can it be, really? Anyway, critics say this show just paints autistic men as stereotypically nerdy and frankly kind of sexist. One example of this happening is with Netflix's sitcom Atypical, which Quartz says is supposed to be "a sensitive look at the problems autistic people face in the dating scene." But it's a sitcom, so. Sometimes that's okay! Sometimes it's offensive and insulting and the people who make the shows don't seem to know the difference. So a certain amount of embellishment has to happen with just about every television show. A production source told TMZ that "there are currently no plans for her to return to the fifth season," which is really just a polite way of saying, "We'd like to stay really far away from even the edges of this particular scandal." Netflix gave the punt to Lori Loughlin, too, who was also implicated in the college entrance scandal and was a four-season "guest star" on the series Fuller House. But as of May 2019 it still wasn't listed among Netflix's offerings.
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And when that happened, Netflix went, "Oh, everyone appears to be losing their collective minds, maybe we'd better not release that Felicity Huffman movie in case the world starts hating on us."Īccording to Business Insider, Huffman appeared in a film called Otherhood, which was supposed to be released just a couple of weeks after Huffman pleaded guilty to charges related to the scandal. When Huffman's name came up as one of roughly 50 individuals who bought their kids' way into prestigious universities, most of the college-educated population lost their collective minds.
