Speechless — One of the Season’s Best New Series

One of the year’s best television series is “Speechless,” about a family with three children, one in a wheelchair. Minnie Driver stars as the fiercely protective mother, John Ross Bowie (Kripke from “Big Bang Theory”) as the more quietly supportive father, and Micah Fowler, who like the character he plays, has cerebral palsy. He also has impeccable comic timing.

And I like the way it matter-of-factly presents the way life reorders your priorities.

I like the series’ frankness about the impact that a disabled sibling can have on the other children.

Highly recommended.