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In English Teacher, Evan Marquez dares to buck the system and treats his students fairly

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48% Informative

English Teacher premiered two episodes on Monday, Sept. 2 , on FX and airs weekly before streaming on Hulu the next day .

Brian Jordan Alvarez , creator, executive producer, director, and star, takes a clever approach to workplace comedy.

The series doesn't dip into painful earnestness and is delightfully free of twee sentimentality.

English Teacher is set in the suburbs of Austin , where it’s easier to cut teachers than in NYC , but these parents are everywhere.

School principal would just as soon fire someone than make his life more complicated.

English teacher Marquez is an obstacle to that goal because his grades reflect students’ actual work.

English Teacher is a comedy that packs the power of an important documentary.

The next day , Harrison shows up in Marquez ’s classroom with a lackey, taking notes, disrupting the class, and claiming parental rights to be there.

Marquez has gained a powerful enemy, and is about to enter a war far less bloody but just as vicious as the one he's explaining.

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English

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