6/13/25 - Friday Video Share: "Patience" - Official Trailer

There's a new British TV show coming up on PBS that looks interesting ...

Patience Part 1 (2025) - Official Trailer - Season 1

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I love British police procedurals. So a new one centered on an autistic character working with police looks promising to me. It's encouraging that the autistic character is apparently played by an autistic actor. But will the Patience character's autism be naively depicted as a "superpower," and resistance to her involvement interpreted as just cartoonish ableism? Or, will the show do justice to the nuances of autism – as neither a pathetic tragedy, nor a sprinkle of wild talent and pixie dust. I look forward to finding out.

What do you look for in TV shows with disabled characters?

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