Joe is five, and spends most of his time belting out his dad's favourite music while listening to the songs on his headphones. He doesn't get invited to his classmates' parties. His mum and dad reluctantly consult doctors as to whether their son is somewhere on the spectrum of the 'A' word.
We seem to recall a similarly-themed one-off drama on ITV a few years ago with Keeley Hawes and Ben Miles as worried parents of a young boy. As there, the wider family get involved (the boy's brewer uncle and his adulterous doctor wife, the un-pc granddad played by a surely-too-young Christopher Eccleston) and there's clearly a rocky road ahead. It's watchable, has great performances and beautiful Cumbrian scenery, but at the moment it feels a little by-numbers and predictable. It's true we've been spoiled with the likes of the second series of 'Happy Valley' - better than the first - and the upcoming third series of 'Line of Duty', but we're not yet sure what this will have to offer to offer above and beyond another exploration of autism.
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