The A Word viewers left ‘crying for the rest of the month’ over ‘emotional rollercoaster’ season 3
THE A Word viewers have been left ‘crying for the rest of the month’ over season three's ‘emotional rollercoaster’.
The BBC drama follows Joe, a 10-year-old boy with autism, and his family.
The series has many emotional moments as well as lighthearted ones, and viewers who have binged the whole series on demand have been left in bits by how season three plays out.
Taking to Twitter, one fan of the show - which also airs episodically on BBC One every Tuesday - wrote: "Between #NormalPeople and #TheAWord I will now be crying until the end of the month!"
Another tweeted: "Just finished #theAword season 3. Brilliant acting, awesome scenery. Tender, subtle, heartbreaking stuff. I’m not crying, you’re crying."
A third added: "Once again #TheAWord has me laughing, crying and everything in between."
They weren't alone with their tears as another fan of the show wrote: "Finished #TheAWord and cried at every episode. Not that it's hard to make me cry. Now what next?"
A fellow viewer gushed: "@BBCOne what a magnificent series #TheAword is it’s informative and moving makes you want to say hooray and then cry within the same sentence word fail me as to how much it should mean to every person who tunes in."
Christopher Eccleston, who plays Joe's grandfather Maurice, previously praised the show's writer Peter Bowker for his ability to couple comedy with drama.
He said: "I think one of the virtues of the piece, certainly for audience members who have people in their family with autism, is that it’s been treated with humour and lightness."
The 56-year-old also said he felt like the show could run for years to come and follow Joe's path to adolescence.
He added to Yahoo: "There's no doubt that the challenges for people living with autism deepen, I would say, as other lessons of puberty dawn.
“But I would hope that perhaps we could look at that in a few years, when Max [Vento, who plays Joe] has moved into that age group."
The A Word continues next Tuesday, May 26 at 9pm on BBC One.