“Hate to break it to you, kids, but being disabled actually does suck.” So deadpans Ian (Sean Towgood) during a motivational speech, telling both the youngsters and the viewers everything they need to know about him — and this show.
While TV shows are featuring more and more BIPOC and LGBTQ stories these days, disabled creators are still due more representation on the small screen. Sean Towgood fought back by creating, writing and starring in his own hilarious show, “You’re My Hero,” a wry comedy that finds the funny in the trials and tribulations of living as a 20-something wheelchair user with cerebral palsy.
Towgood deftly wrings laughs out of his situation, whether it’s having to navigate a bed lift controlled by his out-of-it roommate or his boss’s eye-rolling habit of referring to him as an “inspiration.”
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