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At times, A.P. Bio struggles to build a bridge between what’s happening in Jack’s classroom and the rest of Whitlock, but the performances in the B-plots are so uniformly strong, they practically justify these digressions all on their own.
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For now the NBC sitcom is earnestly uncaring and delightfully unscrupulous. Jack is a legitimately bad teacher, but Howerton makes him a great source of chaotic comedy.
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From the casting to the writing, the show has class, leaving you with the hope that Jack will be destined to a long stay in Toledo.
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The humor is biting, which you would expect from Meyers, Michaels and Howerton, whose been at his biting best for 12 seasons on “Always Sunny.” And while Howerton is the star, it’s really the supporting players, especially the nerdy kids, who make this one kind of fun.
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A.P. Bio is at times too straight-forward, lacking both School of Rock's freshness and the strangeness that made O'Brien's SNL shorts such standouts. [2/9 Feb 2018, p.95]
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There’s a good chance A.P. Bio will become part of that [NBC sitcom lineup] upgrade, if it can dig even deeper into the secondary characters and their strange quirks at the same time as it features Howerton. The more the ensemble clicks, the better.
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A.P. Bio works best when focused on Jack and his students.
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Howerton makes the most of his central ribald rogue role while Oswalt seemingly was built to be a bumbler. Neither character is believably employed--if that really matters. Beyond that, A.P. Bio suffices as a teacher-student comedy.
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No, it isn't living up to its potential yet, but I'm convinced that if it just applies itself to its work, it could be something really good. For now, I'd just settle for the show becoming as funny as the people in the show are capable of being.
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Like its protagonist, at this stage, A.P. Bio is a guy with a bad attitude and little sense of direction, one who has some potential but is too committed to his own cynical plans to do something actually great.
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In spite of impressive pedigree and cast, along with a few laughs, A.P. Bio ultimately earns a gentlemanly C.
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Bio sits awkwardly between conventional and weird: It's neither straightforward or offbeat enough to strike a consistent tone.
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When the funniest things about a comedy are the cameos, it’s time to go back to the drawing board. Or in the case of NBC’s new sitcom A.P. Bio, back to the chalkboard.
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It’s not a pleasant show to watch. ... Kids would usually be shown to be thrilled that their rule-breaking teacher was showing them how to, you know, really enjoy life! But in practice, A. P. Bio ends up ridiculing the students.
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A.P. Bio is just staggeringly unfunny, a clunky mess of a sitcom that has no idea how to innovate beyond its setup--nor any sense of what about its material is actually comedic.
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An abrasive sitcom that isn’t merely unfunny, it’s also deeply unpleasant.
Awards & Rankings
User score distribution:
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Positive: 25 out of 38
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Mixed: 6 out of 38
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Negative: 7 out of 38
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May 4, 2018
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Apr 3, 2018I like it. That's all that matters. Ok, it says I need 75 characters here. Got it.
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May 9, 2018