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Patience on Channel 4

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Did anyone watch 'Patience' on Channel 4 last night?

It's the UK remake of the French series, 'Astrid et Raphaelle', featuring a young autistic woman who works in criminal records. She has a photographic memory for cases and tries to insert herself into investigations.

Unlike the French series, the UK one (filmed in York) features autistic actors in all of the autistic roles. I've watched the French series, which I really enjoyed. 

My initial impressions of Patience is that it looks and feels quite different, and I really liked Ella Maisy Purvis as Patience. It seemed a much more natural performance than Sara Mortensen in Astrid.

It's on the Channel 4 streaming service and the second episode is on TV at 9pm tonight.

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  • Bit behind with this thread, but half way through the many episodes of Astrid and have also watched Patience. Much prefer the Astrid series. Weirdly, with Patience I found her relatable at the beginning and then it seemed like her autism disappeared (apart from in isolated instances I like at the pub). Appreciate that we all probably appear like that if we manage to feel more comfortable in a situation, but Astrid resonates with me much more. Anyway, I know there’s no one experience and it’s just fiction but the best thing about is that my NT partner has enjoyed watching it with me.

  • in reply to JD-on-sea

    I've not watched the Astrid one, but I didn't find the ending of Patience annoying or disapointing, I was glad, because it means she'll be back and I quite enjoyed hanging out with her every week. Hopefully the programe will have enough traction now for "Patience" to develop and show us more autistic traits, things that are normal for us, but weird to NT's, also how NT's relate to us, I think that was one of the programes strengths and I hope it makes NT viewers think about how they react around us.

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  • in reply to JD-on-sea

    I've not watched the Astrid one, but I didn't find the ending of Patience annoying or disapointing, I was glad, because it means she'll be back and I quite enjoyed hanging out with her every week. Hopefully the programe will have enough traction now for "Patience" to develop and show us more autistic traits, things that are normal for us, but weird to NT's, also how NT's relate to us, I think that was one of the programes strengths and I hope it makes NT viewers think about how they react around us.

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