Love on the Spectrum star Michael Theo is wonderful as an autistic man who tracks down his hapless father and his wife
his very funny and sharply executed comedy series has a big heart, underneath a thick layer of dry, cheeky humour. The eponymous Austin is a 28-year-old autistic man, played with understated but thoroughly irresistible charm by Michael Theo, who was one of the stars of the ABCAs the series begins, Austin’s preparing to introduce himself to his biological father, Julian, a British children’s book author who is unaware of his existence.
He’s loth to admit any wrongdoing and from the early moments of the show exhibits a terrific ability to bury himself with his own words. “Well it transpires that the original tweetee was, um, is, ah, quite a prominent, um, and rather active, um, very successful in his own right, er, neo-Nazi,” he bleats. Miller’s delivery nails it.
One: it’s not particularly welcoming to the idea that, as Julian insists, “bad people are sometimes right about certain things,” referring to the white supremacist’s views on freedom of speech . And two: if you find yourself defending the views of a neo-Nazi, it’s safe to say you’ve probably made a significant miscalculation somewhere along the line.Photograph: ABC
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