Brian Jordan Alvarez created and stars in the half-hour series about an idealistic but frequently misguided gay educator working in suburban Austin.
, it’s that there simply isn’t enough of it. The show’s first season comprises just eight 20ish-minute installments — which, in fairness, is well in line with the likes of other FX comedies likeAnd yet I couldn’t help feeling that in this case, it wasn’t quite enough. Because with such a sharp ensemble, smart perspective and finely honed sense of humor right out the gate, this one feels built to keep going — toward a broadcast-standard 22-episode season, even, hopefully for years and years.
In the premiere, for instance, he’s relieved to learn that a complaint filed against him by a homophobic parent has been dropped — until he learns said parent was only persuaded to do so after Markie , the school’s gym teacher, threatened to out her son. Evan is immediately and understandably offended, but Markie takes a more pragmatic view: “No one gives a shit about your highfalutin ideals, bro,” he scoffs.
But it doesn’t necessarily take them in the directions that a cynic might expect. It would be very easy to imagine a version ofthat turns those topics into Big Teachable Moments, with Evan changing hearts and minds through the eloquent yet impassioned monologues. This is not that show. This is a show where when Evanget to make one of those speeches, it’s received with a deadpan, “Wow, you really healed me. Thanks.
Nor, conversely, does it traffic in cheap jabs about snowflake Millennials, snotty Gen Z-ers or the chasm between them. Evan and his colleagues, particularly his chipper best friend Gwen , are frequently baffled by the mores of the younger generation, who do not seem to be any less easily offended for being “less woke.” Its tone is rather one of affectionate curiosity, toward faculty and student body alike.
But there I go again, sighing that this show isn’t nearly long enough. I’ll just have to sit back and hope class will be back for another session next year.Erin LassnerTarget Is Now Selling L’Oreal’s Automatic Hair Color Brush That Eva Longoria Called “Game-Changing” — and It’s 25 Percent Off for Labor Day. We use vendors that may also process your information to help provide our services.
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