It's both cynical and mostly accurate to observe that if you want to tell a story of disability or physical/mental impairment on the big or small screen, your chances are improved if there's a mystery involved.
It's a format that has yielded stone-cold classics (BBC's The Singing Detective), negligible duds (The CW's In the Dark) and everything in-between, the spoonful of genre sugar that gives storytellers a structure and marketing executives a selling point.
That's not, of course, to say that projects like Masterpiece's Elizabeth Is Missing are pandering. The adaptation of Emma Healey's novel, which premiered to rapturous notices on BBC One last winter, is a sad and harrowing story of a woman with Alzheimer's built around a remarkable.
Read more on hollywoodreporter.com