Sam Gardner (Gilchrist), a teen entering a whole new world as he matriculates into a public school on Netflix’s Atypical, loves penguins. As his environment pressures him, he burrows deeper into his ...

Coming-of-age stories are typical enough. But creator Robia Rashid set out to tell the story of a penguin-loving teen who is decidedly Atypical. The resulting project is a beloved Netflix TV series on ...