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I’ve been in this business 50 plus years and you just don’t often run into this kind of material that’s so true and honest and a combination of comedy and tragedy and everything in between.
Joe Mantegna, who plays Jack’s father on the show, expressed his own connection to the series: Rick Glassman shared that in other circumstances he’s had to tell himself to not do things that would typically not be okay in other productions, but for As We See It, he felt like he didn’t have as much “shame” in who he is. To be able to use those things as something that got me a job and gives me tools to tell this story… proud I would say is a fair word to say for it. But, I’m proud to have had those moments in my life when it was hard for me to make friends and to get in trouble here and there and have a lot of issues with schooling and my parents having to deal with that. I’ve always felt those two things aren’t mutually exclusive, but it’s gotten in the way of a lot of my personal relationships. I’m a goofy boy, a comedian and I do a lot of silly gaffs and a lot of people in my life have told me that they never know when I’m joking or being serious. Rick Glassman, who plays Jack on the series, opened up about starring in As We See It (also in the video above):
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"As We See It," in other words, is the perfect Katims show.īOTTOM LINE Best TV newcomer of the new year so far.While it should be noted that each of the characters in As We See It are not inspired by the actors who portray them because they have experiences living their lives on the spectrum, they could draw from their personal experiences when playing their roles. They're real people with real problems in an all-too-real world. They forge ahead, with the help of those who esteem them, like Mandy (Bacon, the daughter of Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick, is excellent here) and Jack's father (Mantegna too, needless to say). They can be funny, often unintentionally, but are never tragic. Like everyone else, they have dreams and busted dreams. Jack, Violet and Harrison are "on the spectrum," but in wildly different places on that spectrum. And like Sheldon of "The Big Bang Theory," Jack is smarter than everyone and aggrieved with those who can't see what he so easily can, notably that boss who doesn't like to be called an idiot during staff meetings. Because Violet has learned everything she knows about love (and sex) from Instagram, her expectations are brutally, inevitably dashed. People (mistakenly) go about their lives believing they know what's going on in their own heads so imagine their confusion, turmoil and occasional sheer elation in trying to figure out what's going on in someone else's too, as Katims' characters so often did?īy clicking Sign up, you agree to our privacy policy.īy contrast, Jack and Violet are flummoxed by a world that refuses to conform to the terms they have set for it. (While Katims wrote "FNL," Peter Berg was creator.) What resonated most was that blend of pathos with comedy, and especially that sense - in the stray emotional moment - that here lay Truth.
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MY SAY "As We See It" is as you might expect, or at least expect from a Jason Katims show - specifically those classic series adaptations of the movies "Friday Night Lights" and "Parenthood" which were so vastly more resonant than their source material. This comes from Jason Katims, who found TV superstardom with "Friday Night Lights," later "Parenthood." The three depend on her, and others too: Violet is reliant on her older brother Van (Chris Pang), while Jack is particularly close to his father (Joe Mantegna). Mandy helps where she can, but has an eye on her own future (she wants to get into medical school). Harrison, meanwhile, has phobias - even to the point of walking alone outside. Same with Violet, who works behind the counter at a local fast-food place, and overshares with customers. Jack, for example, is a brilliant programmer and someone whose social skills are (to put it delicately) not conducive to a workplace environment. WHAT IT'S ABOUT Three twentysomethings who are on the spectrum - Jack (Rick Glassman), Violet (Sue Ann Pien) and Harrison (Albert Rutecki) - live together in an LA apartment, under the watchful eye of caregiver Mandy (Sosie Bacon).
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