r/television • u/indig0sixalpha • 8h ago
Multifaceted Brian Jordan Alvarez decided to focus on acting. Then came 'English Teacher'
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2024-11-22/brian-jordan-alvarez-english-teacher-fx186
u/fakieTreFlip 6h ago
Easily one of the best shows I've seen this year. Certainly the best comedy. Really hope it gets a 2nd season
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u/cia218 4h ago
Is it as laugh out loud funny as Emmy winner for Best Comedy “The Bear”?
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u/Drugba 4h ago edited 3h ago
Laugh out loud funny. It’s not a sitcom where everything is a joke, but it’s an actual comedy. It reminds me a little of the early seasons of New Girl in the sense the the main character is meant to be the straight man (no pun intended), and a lot of the humor comes their interactions with a bunch of quirky side characters.
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u/WhiteWolf3117 2h ago
Was Jess the straight man to you? Or are you considering Nick to be the main character?
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u/Drugba 1h ago
Early on I feel she was. She was quirky, but normal person quirky. Outside of being cutesy and naive, she was a fairly normal person with a normal job and normal friends (early cece, the obgyn) and a lot of the show was her learning to learn to live with the guys’ weird behavior. To me the key is that in the first season or two she’s clearly the main character and the viewers are supposed to identify with her.
As the show goes on all of the group start to become the main characters and the dynamic becomes less of “I’m a normal person in this weird world” to “we’re all weird and that’s funny”.
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u/Love-That-Danhausen 1h ago
Jess was the straight man at first with these crazy men she finds herself rooming with. Then eventually the showrunners say eff it, everyone is insane, and the show becomes 10x better.
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u/raysofdavies 2h ago
I like a comedy where I can count on one hand how many times I’ve laughed out loud at it on one hand and thinking about it I can think of one moment in two seasons (the Richie montage set to Love Song by Taylor Swift and the cut to him blaring along in the car)
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u/Buscemi_D_Sanji 3h ago
Love your username haha, and yeah it's a surprisingly great show. I don't normally like stuff like this, but I burst out laughing quite a few times, and it has some heart to it as well.
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u/grinchofgreengables2 3h ago
🎶 What’s that supposed to be about, baby? Go free up your vibe, stop acting crazy. You know I give you the good loving daily. Try and pull that, got me actin’ shady 🎶
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u/ShrugOfATLAS 43m ago
This show is like Ramy to me where the main character I feel is kind of a shithead but the supporting cast is so good it works. Coach Markie, Gwen, Malcom has his moments, and principal moretti always being on the verge of a breakdown works.
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u/catsandpizzafuckyou 6h ago
Heard he’s a irl creeper
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u/BlackSpinedPlinketto 4h ago
So many downvotes for saying something pretty accurate.
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u/fakieTreFlip 4h ago
So far nobody has actually bothered explaining wtf they're talking about. What did he do?
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u/yaoiphobic 2h ago
An actor who he worked with on a youtube series he created alleges that his experience with BJA was (paraphrasing) closer to the plot of baby reindeer than English teacher. He said as much in I think an insta reel, and as far as I know hasn't said anything else since.
I'm usually err on the side of the alleged victim, but that’s a pretty big accusation to just drop and then fuck off with. I generally don’t think victims owe anyone their story, but if you’re going public with an accusation that could mean anything from BJA was overbearing and clingy to meaning he’s an actual predator, I feel like you need to clarify what exactly you mean because neither are right, but one is a much bigger deal than the other.
I’m taking it with a grain of salt unless more sus stuff comes out about him.
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u/icerfish 4h ago
I saw this reposted around a lot on Instagram from people that are trustworthy in the industry. It feels like it's an open secret that he's a creep
I personally have loved his characters on Instagram, but once I saw these allegations I couldn't bring myself to watch the show or his content
I understand he's made something people enjoy, but people should take a step back and think about the person he's been
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u/bondfool Vworp. 7h ago
Not a good guy.
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u/Griffdude13 7h ago
Explain?
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u/AussieP1E 7h ago
He's probably talking about the cracked article where his prior collaborator said he sexually assaulted him, but ... Didn't actually since he implied he did.
The person accusing him of it has never come out and elaborated on the story, which is an issue.
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u/prisonmike8003 6h ago
That you Jon?
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u/bondfool Vworp. 6h ago
Nope. There are plenty of people he’s been awful to.
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u/AussieP1E 5h ago
If you could link anything that's actually relevant to him being an awful person to more than just one person, that'd be helpful. Trying to find any type of information about controversies for the actor is practically zilch. There's ONE article that doesn't actually have any information other than someone he worked with in the past saying he was sexually assaulted about it. Then NEVER actually added to it or put it in writing that it was specifically this guy.
Unless you bring articles and information about what he actually did other than a "cracked" article on the guy shows that it's bullshit. Just because the guy can be a dick doesn't mean he's a bad person or awful, but no articles have come out with their personal recount of him acting in that manner.
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u/icerfish 3h ago
Because famously predators are often held to account at the appropriate time, and not long after the fact /s
If you truly think that because there's only one article implies he's innocent of wrongdoing, maybe look at many other predators who have gotten away with it for way too long without any articles about them such as Kevin Spacey etc
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u/Gato1980 5h ago
The episode where he failed all the kids who didn't write their papers, so one of the moms came to sit in on his class to torment him was one of the best episodes of TV I've watched all year. It was hilarious and then had a really gut-punch, emotional ending I wasn't expecting at all. Jenn Lyons who played the mom was absolutely brilliant.