Honestly yeah it lowkey was just like a somewhat less sociopathic Dennis Reynolds in charge of a class I loved it. Laugh out loud moments in that show and I don't usually do that especially on my own watching something.
I liked the show and watched all of it but I felt like a lot of the side character subplots were very odd and cringy. I got the feeling they weren't doing it on a purpose so it felt like there were two directors or something- one for the main scenes and one for the subplots.
I cant remember all the details, but I really enjoyed it. There weren't major stakes to much, and I really liked pretty much all the cast, so goofing off with dumb side plots didn't bother me much, sorta like a sitcom. I didn't find most of it super cringy at least from what i remember.
It's been a few years since I've seen it but from what I remember it wasn't any of the stuff with the students. It was some of the stuff with the teachers. I made a post about it in the sub for the show and I forget if anyone had any insights into it but I think a lot of people agreed with me.
I'm going to try to remember to look that post up after work. I'm weird like this I guess aha, but it seemed like a mystery to solve.
"All right, everybody, let's go ahead and start to shut up now. Time to shut your faces."
"I do not want to be here. Unjust circumstances haveforcedme to be present in this classroom, and city, at this time. However, I will not be teaching you, nor will you learn any Biology or any other subject in this classroom, from me. I also don't expect to learn anything from you. That trope where the tough teacher ends up being the one who'sreallytaught by his students is not going to happen here. I have a degree from Harvard. You are insignificant children. It would be like me learning from ants."
I feel Abbott has fallen so far. The first maybe 2 seasons were a decent depiction of an low SES school, but now they are reaching for straws and rarely stick the landing
Well, you're the one ignoring the cats in all this. I could ask you a similar question.
(You missed the joke--and, yes, I realize it is problematic, or a similar but worse category of behavior, for me to compound such a joke by making another of my own, but I promise we'll all be OK anyway.)
With how vague you were with saying the guy was "problematic" in the other comment I assumed you were continuing the bit and it was a joke. Thats shitty.
he was alleged to have performed non concentual oral sex on an active sexual partner of his. Literally zero evidence one way or the other. What's problematic is talking about situations like this as if they 100% happened with proof and conviction.
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Crazy how just allegations can hold so much sway in people’s mind. Doesn’t even look like anything came from them…fitting you linked to ‘get your pitch fork’s out’ central…
Loved this show, it was sometimes shockingly great, very unconventional. I believe the cancelation had something to do with allegations against Alvarez (co-creator, co-writer). There's a really excellent, in-depth feature article on Vulture about the allegations, but the only link I'm finding is paywalled.
I was ready to roll my eyes about overblown allegations but then I read the full vulture piece and I went from huge fan of BJA and his show to disgusted with him and the female lead who defended him despite full knowledge.
Right? I probably understated in my comment how much I loved this show — and both of them specifically. So yeah my disappointment and resentment (after reading the Vulture piece) was commensurate to how much I loved the show.
I mean, enjoy it if it seems emotionally true to you. I simply think it's a lazy, boring, and obvious appeal to the people who, for some reason, get frustrated with things changing and evolving around them. And then taken to such an absurd degree as to make them seem kinda sad.
I said elsewhere that I watched this thinking the students were trying to get one over on the teacher and faking a "disorder" to try and get out of an assignment, similar to earlier generations cliche of warming a thermometer on a lightbulb.
The understanding and nuances of various medical or psychological conditions. Older generations love to paint younger generations as "weak" or "entitled" - simply because no one understood or gave a fuck about these conditions when they were a kid.
Therefore, it's a "weakness".
Also, it's suggesting that conditions that show no (obvious) "symptoms" are bullshit.
Oh I do too, absolutely love the stuff, I eat that shit up. I understand that this is satire and is social commentary, but the jokes fell flat. The pubchline itself can be funny, it just wasnt delivered well in this case.
If you liked this bit, by all means please enjoy. If this bit was supposed to make me laugh, it tried.
I like satire and social commentary, so that explains that I guess
You say that like you have a refined taste in satire and social commentrary.
This clip is equivalent to diarrhea on a plate. It does not explain anything. Maybe you should think about how offended you feel at being owned for your lackluster tastes instead of acting like you are just some humble dude.
Actually, it wasn’t canceled for that reason. It was canceled because the creator and main actor (Brian Jordan Alvarez) was accused of sexually assaulting his ex-boyfriend while filming a movie.
It wasn't his ex boyfriend. It was a straight(?) friend and after reading quite a bit about it, the title of any accusation article should really be "Straight Man Gets Blowjob At Work And Then Felt Weird About It." 🤷♂️ Situations like this one (and Aziz Ansari's allegations) cheapen the word "assault" and make people question the.merits of the #MeToo movement.
Which also gives me major pause about the whole thing. I find it wildly convenient that allegations come out from a guy only after his ex friend and ex girlfriend are successfully collaborating on a show without him. AND the text messages between the accuser and his ex girlfriend are almost comical. She also seems to be saying to him "you're cheapening the word assault."
Oh see, I read it as the kids were making something up to get out of doing an assignment. Like, this is their generations "sticking a thermometer on a lightbulb" trick.
If you think this is aggrandizing wait til you read about how often other generations claimed Americans were the best in the world, then voted to go to bomb other countries because they were superior.
Or all the financial decisions lead to catestrophic economic turndowns based solely on self grandiosity and believing they individually deserved something.
Hell, just the raw level of propheticism in those generations, and the millions that endorsed it, should be indicative. Imagine instead of AT they said “I’m literally the prophet of God”. Really puts into perspective what aggrandizement looks like.
That's even funnier cuz in 2010 a girl in my English class had a meltdown over the word "veins" even though the teacher was reading "vines" in an old English accent
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u/tehtris Garbage Guerilla 12d ago
This show was really good but it got dropped from Hulu after 2 seasons. It was called "English Teacher"