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Critic Reviews
The Daily BeastSep 3, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It is almost unspeakably refreshing to discover the next great show. With FX’s The English Teacher, which premieres Sept. 2, the joy is twofold: The knowledge that the new comedy series is objectively, undeniably great, but also the realization—and ensuing comfort—that the sensibility and humor is directly for me.
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Aug 26, 2024
Season 1 Review:
English Teacher’s impressive jokes-per-minute count delivers a steady stream of laugh-out-loud moments (a simple back-and-forth about Shrek is a contender for joke of the year). And as deliciously dense episodes whiz by, the show challenges viewers to keep up in the best way possible. Chief among English Teacher‘s hit comedy ingredients is A+ casting. .... It’s a winning comedy at the top of its class, and school will hopefully be in session for many seasons to come.
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Sep 17, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Tremendously clever and squarely focused on some of the most noxious fronts in the culture war, each episode provides plenty of fodder for audiences to thoughtfully engage with: Gun violence, drag panic, and the oppressive social order of heteronormativity are all subjects that English Teacher handles deftly in tidy 23-minute chunks. But mostly? It’s just really goddamn funny.
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Sep 3, 2024
Season 1 Review:
“English Teacher” takes a while to heat up. But when you get to episode six of the new FX comedy, you’ll be hooked. There, Linda Harrison (Jenn Lyon) enters the picture and demonstrates what kind of challenges teachers face today. .... It’s a great addition to cable’s curriculum and a chance for the oh-so-talented Alvarez to show the breadth of his resume. But Jenn Lyon? She’s one to watch.
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Sep 19, 2025
Season 2 Review:
The season finale suggests that English Teacher will be looking to evolve in the future, with the current crop of students moving on and the teachers going through some major relationship changes. For now, though, it’s found the sort of cozy stasis that truly great sitcoms flourish in.
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The TelegraphNov 19, 2025
Season 2 Review:
It’s a sitcom, so there are jokes that don’t land and set-ups that feel forced, but there’s an ease to season two that’s borne of the success of season one – every actor and writer knows their job that little bit better and the central cast bat witty lines back and forth like they’re on the clock.
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Oct 9, 2025ColliderSep 24, 2025
Season 2 Review:
Though it falters occasionally, English Teacher Season 2 is just as entertaining as the first, with the added benefit of expanding its characters' universe through themes ranging from COVID to waste disposal to just a regular outing between coworkers turned friends.
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Sep 4, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Tonally, it veers between the cynicism of Max’s industry satire “The Other Two” and the sincerity of Quinta Brunson’s “Abbott Elementary.” The balancing act doesn’t always work—but when it does it yields something at once smart, heartwarming, and appealingly irreverent.
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Sep 3, 2024
Season 1 Review:
It takes a bit of time and patience to settle into the improvisational chaos permeating the earliest “English Teacher” episodes, but once the cast and writers find the right balance and cadence those freewheeling segments augment the show’s broader points about the ways we tend to talk past each other.
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TV Guide MagazineAug 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
English Teacher passes with flying colors. [26 Aug - 15 Sep 2024, p.4]
ColliderAug 26, 2024
Sep 22, 2025Aug 28, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Likely-not-actually-a-quibble quibble aside, English Teacher is largely a treat, a story that nods to classic high-school-movie tropes, complete with ’80s-pop needle drops—“She Drives Me Crazy,” “I Can Dream About You,” “Maniac,” “Gloria”—and purple-neon-cursive title cards, yet could only be told today.
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Aug 27, 2024
Season 1 Review:
"English Teacher" is good — if broad — in its approach. That’s how Brian Jordan Alvarez, who created and stars in the show, tackles seemingly every hot-button issue surrounding education and, why not, modern life. It’s a show that is trying too hard at times, but we should applaud the effort.
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The GuardianSep 2, 2024
Season 1 Review:
Still, for all its handling of today’s (unfortunately) hot-button topics (non-binary people, book bans, rogue school boards, “wokeness”), English Teacher is a breeze – a tricky mix of wit, silly humor and heart with plenty of potential. For now, it gets a passing grade, with a request for more study and, hopefully, a bright future.
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