Multi-award winning and critically acclaimed, this brilliant and touching comedy series is the most popular sitcom around. We tell you why you have to catch up on this series (especially if you missed it last year).
What is it about ?
Teachers at one of the worst public schools in the country support each other and try to find a way to thwart national education guidelines for students.
Why do we have to catch up?
It was one of the big winning series at the last Golden Globes, winning 3 awards (Best Comedy Series, Best Comedy Actress and Best Comedy Actor in a Supporting Role): Abbott Elementary is the best sitcom of the moment, and you’ve surely passed next to.
As Season 2 lands on Disney+, we’ll tell you why you need to catch up on this brilliant and touching comedy series (especially if you missed it last year).
In the vein of The Office or Parks and Recreation, Quinta Brunson’s series is a mockumentary sitcom, that is to say a work of fiction that presents the plot as if it were filmed for a documentary with confessions and testimonies of characters facing the camera like in a television show.
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Keen on comedy, Quinta Brunson cut her teeth by developing several series and content for Instagram and BuzzFeed, then making a few appearances in American network series before launching her own series.
His sense of comedy and his brilliant writing allow him to give life to Abbott Elementary, which tells the daily life of school teachers in a public establishment with few means and subsidies.
Despite the difficulties, the teachers go to great lengths to provide the best possible education for their students, while managing their friendships, flirtations and disputes with management.
The series criticizes with relevance and humor the American educational system and highlights African-American culture and racial issues in the United States while delivering a benevolent speech in a warm and jovial atmosphere.
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In addition to its subject, its catchy form and its impertinent humor, Abbott Elementary can count on a formidable gallery of colorful characters and strong characters camped by a cast as hilarious as it is endearing.
Tyler James Williams, Janelle James, Lisa Ann Walter, Chris Perfetti and Sheryl Lee Ralph surround Quinta Brunson with passion and talent.
So, if you missed this comic nugget, we advise you to catch up with Abbott Elementary. Thus, you will be on the attack for the second season, as delicious as the inaugural season. The new episodes of Abbott Elementary are available from March 1 on Disney+.
The Abbott Elementary series is available on Disney+.