Albert Rutecki, Rick Glassman and Sue Ann Pien — all of whom have autism — play a bunch of roommates who’re on the spectrum in “As We See It” on Amazon’s Prime Video. (Ali Goldstein/Amazon Studios)
A groundbreaking tv present that prominently featured folks with autism each in entrance and behind the digicam is not any extra.
Amazon confirmed that it has canceled the collection “As We See It” after only one season on its Prime Video streaming service.
The half-hour comedy primarily based on the Israeli collection “On the Spectrum” starred three actors with autism as 20-something roommates Jack, Harrison and Violet who have been all looking for to make associates, discover love and get jobs.
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“As We See It” was created by Jason Katims who was additionally behind the NBC household drama “Parenthood,” which included a personality with Asperger’s syndrome and aired from 2010 to 2015. Katims has a son who’s on the spectrum, an expertise he stated impressed him to make the Amazon present.
Along with starring actors with autism because the collection leads, Katims indicated that “all neurodiverse roles have been forged with neurodiverse actors” and “two neurotypical roles have been forged with neurodiverse actors.” There have been additionally neurodiverse crew members within the present’s writers’ room, enhancing room, manufacturing workplace and on set, he stated.
“That is, in the end, not a present the place the autistic characters are the very best associates, or the girlfriends, or the sons, or daughters — they ARE the celebrities. The present is theirs,” Katims stated earlier than the collection premiered its eight-episode season in January.
Amazon didn’t touch upon why “As We See It” was canceled.
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