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The A Word
MEANRANK
83/100
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Metacritic users on 75, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 94.
See the most agreed on TV shows →The Hughes family work and love and fight like every other family. Then, their youngest son is diagnosed with autism and they don't feel like every other family anymore.
Details
- Created by
- Keren Margalit
- Studio
- Fifty Fathoms, Keshet Productions
- Released
- 22 March 2016
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English
- Episode length
- 60 min
- Rated
- TV-14
- Episodes
- 18 across 3 seasons
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