TV #24 of 2024: Abbott Elementary, season 3 Every serialized TV show — which in today’s landscape includes most sitcoms — has to branch out and try new things as it goes along, lest the initially-entertaining formulas for its episodes grow stale through over-repetition. Sometimes that change in direction can feel like an organic extension …
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TV Review: Abbott Elementary, season 2
TV #17 of 2023: Abbott Elementary, season 2 Another fine year of this workplace mockumentary set at an underfunded, majority-Black public school in inner-city Philadelphia. The strengths of its humor and character specificity remain, and my biggest concern from before, that season one‘s core romantic tension was too similar to Jim and Pam from The …
TV Review: Abbott Elementary, season 1
TV #30 of 2022: Abbott Elementary, season 1 A really strong and funny sitcom debut! I have a couple critiques that are holding me back from an utterly glowing five-star review, but this mockumentary series about teachers at an underfunded, majority-Black, inner-city Philadelphia school is generally sweet and hilarious alike. It also feels fresh in …
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