The first season of Austin was a droll, moreish treat, appealingly combining Australian and British humour to tell the story of an autistic man in his late 20s connecting for the first time with his biological father. The former is Austin (Michael Theo, from the reality TV show Love on the Spectrum); the latter is children’s book author Julian (UK comedian Ben Miller), who learns about the son he never knew in the middle of a career crisis – while managing, or mismanaging, the fallout from sharing a white supremacist’s social media post. Our sympathies naturally align with the titular...