When high-flying author Julian (Ben Miller) faces being cancelled the sudden appearance of his 20-something neurodivergent son sparks a cynical plan to clean up his image. It’s a great set-up, and one that serves TV comedy “Austin” well.
The U.S. is yet to catch onto “Austin” but you can watch it from anywhere with a VPN — and potentially for free.
Needless to say, it does not go as smoothly as he might have hoped and nobody plays the hopeless middle class loser like Ben Miller as Julian (in a show he co-created and co-wrote).
Although Michael Theo, a neurodivergent participant in reality TV show “Love on the Spectrum”, makes his acting debut as the title character “Austin” here, we are told it is not a comedy about autism. Or about cancel culture.
It is about families apparently but
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