The single-camera comedy created by Quinta Brunson follows a small group of teachers at a chronically underfunded public school in West Philadelphia.
Abbott Elementary
already feels like a reliable source of laugh-out-loud moments, thanks to sharply drawn characters and a winning cast. A precise sense of comic timing means the show often dishes out jokes before we even know to expect them. Put another way, it’s funny to see the janitor, played by William Stanford Davis, teaching children about the Illuminati; it’s funnier as a rapid smash cut in the middle of a larger conversation about understaffing.
Janine, a second-grade teacher who’s been at the school for a little over a year, is the character who most embodies the spirit of the show — earnest, upbeat and prone to letting her good intentions overwhelm her common sense, with sweetly amusing results. Surrounding her are staff members offering varying degrees of support in her mission to change the school for the better. Three episodes in, some of the biggest laughs come from specific character details that just seem to track.
True, there are still some wrinkles to be ironed out. Young teacher Jacob is little more than a collection of liberal white guy stereotypes, and so far works better as a sidekick for Janine than as a protagonist in his own right. is still calibrating the relationships between some of its characters. It’s not really clear, for example, whether Ava is meant to come across as a low-key villain, a harmless weirdo, or something in between.
could blossom into something truly special. What stands out in its initial episodes is a willingness to deal with class head on, while also finding humor in the characters’ situations. Most of the storylines revolve in some way around the teachers trying to meet the needs that their city refuses to, whether that’s by fixing a flickering light bulb or fulfilling a teacher wish list. While each predicament resolves within 22 minutes, the larger issues driving them do not.
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