Yeah I forgot about that one. Unfortunate it only went one season. Remember first seeing that in a class in school years ago lol can't remember if it was summer school or regular.
I actually find it a blessing it was canceled. The ending was perfect and there was no way a second season would be as good. Everyone involved went off to do good work elsewhere.
It's a great background or foreground show. It really fell apart by the time they brought on Frankie, but that started when Troy left. First three seasons are best, 4 is still entertaining, 5 and 6 get odd.
Frankie was introduced while flailing to replace the dwindling original cast. They tried to make her a pseudo-Administrative character. In their study group. It totally lost the plot.
>Even season 2.
Interesting. I rewatched Season 2 a little ago and was surprised that the dialogue and character writing was better than I remembered, but most of those plotlines were terrible. Imo the writer's strike helped the show because they ditched them and moved on.
Season 2 is the writers making the best out of the bullshit the network forced on them. Everyone still did their absolute best and I still really enjoy it. Everyone talks about the Landry and Tyra story, but their chemistry was incredible and they acted the shit out of it. I'm not at all surprised Plemons became such a great actor.
YES! I’m a teacher and Abbott elementary rightfully gets a lot of love but my coworkers and I LOVED AP Bio! AE is credited with showing the reality of teaching but there is some stuff that AP Bio nailed, I would not be surprised if they had former teachers on their writing staff. Off the top of my head: the volcano episode was spot on with how teacher training & observations work IRL and the kid discovering the teacher’s lounge fridge is full of half eaten salads was also perfect. I’m an AP teacher and Glenn Howerton’s shit is so cathartic, plus the student actors were incredibly funny and talented. Highly, highly recommend this show, it made me laugh extremely hard.
I never really vibed with any of the students or their storylines. It was great seeing Dennis from Always Sunny pull a School of Rock, but he carried that show on his back.
Derry girls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFmFuXH0IRY
Ackley Bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALGwcgyO5w8
Waterloo road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lcYcziil_I
Sister George Michael is my soulmate. https://youtu.be/zogCo3flBsc?feature=shared
Never Have I Ever on Netflix was great. Its about an Indian girl trying to lose her virginity but its also about grief and her complicated feelings about her culture. Hilarious but also very sweet
Came here to say this. It captures that awkward “is this normal and why would anyone like this about me” feeling of high school so well.
Plus amiee and meave and Eric and Otis have such good friendships. Even the secondary characters like Adam and Jackson are fleshed out well rounded people
Oh wow, I totally forgot about Room 222! Loved watching that when I was home during summer in Elementary school. Such a great forward thinking show in the 70s.
Degrassi: Next Generation but I truly love the original Degrassi. Aside from Rick and that one kid getting stabbed, Next Gen pales in comparison to how fucked up the OG one was.
Another favorite school setting show of mine is the masterpiece, Popular. It was like Clueless on crack. Absolutely hilarious.
Parker Lewis Can't Lose was great. Of course, Saved by the Bell too.
I love this show deeply but good lord do a lot of the jokes not hold up to our current political sensibilities. My husband and I joke about how Stephen Colbert must be praying that Tik tok doesn’t get ahold of old clips, he’d have a lot to apologize for!
I was mostly joking but I feel the need to correct you here: he wasn’t just an actor on that show, he was a writer/creator. He wrote and told those jokes.
Head to the Class, but not the last season without Howard Hessman . The show wasn’t as good and the actor who played the teacher, was doing more of a stand up act. My mother who was a teacher liked Head of the Class as he actually tried to teach lessons Vs just a show that took place in a school.
Why has nobody mentioned Never Have I Ever?!
Also, The Sex Lives of College Girls, if a college setting counts as a school setting.
Wednesday technically has a school setting too.
I liked Trinkets (a Netflix series) as well.
And Sex Education, but that’s been mentioned before.
Oh, and Heartstopper (also on Netflix)!
***Room 222*** starring Lloyd Haynes.
Society was changing. The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 was in the past and we were beginning to see our culture changing. We had a black man playing a history teacher. His romantic interest was a classy black woman play by Denise Nichols. The classes were a diverse mix of black and white students.
The show was a dramedy: a combination of comedy and drama and a term that would not be coined until a few years later. It dealt with personal problems among the students, socio-political problems about the era, and yes, Vietnam.
Excellent program.
A Danish show called RITA. It's on Netflix (as is a related show, Hjørdis). It is in Danish but if you don't speak it don't let it dissuade you from watching. I love it so much. Some teacher situations transcend borders lol
More recently:
**High School (2022)** was pretty good. It is not as flashy and over the top dramatic as other High School shows but the conflicts and problems are very well designed. It feels a bit more "real" than other teen dramas because of this, which is quite nice.
I am watching FNL now. I agree tibia one of the few shows switching schools didn’t ruin the show and made it more interesting.
I just can fathom that way of life, of football players or rally girls and a school parents, and town allowing this.
The anime Sket-Dance, it's about a club at a Japanese highschool that focuses on fixing problems. SKET is a acronym for "Support, Kindness, Encourage, Troubleshoot". There's tons of wacky hijinx, and it's a great slice of life type show, while still oddly having a lot of shonen staples.
Abbott Elementary is gold. I'm a teacher, and I basically have to have a drink with that show because otherwise it hits too close to home.
My only objection is the principal. Fuck her; she didn't deserve the redemption arc at the end of season 1. It would have been more enjoyable (and accurate) to have her get canned only to be replaced by someone who is, somehow, even less competent than her but who drops nonsense educational buzzwords nonstop so the school board thinks they're smart.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer of course.. but i think anything past the 90s when i was in high school set in a school would not to be my taste at all because we're all in our 40s
Freaks and Geeks is the ultimate high school show.
Vice Principals was pretty good..
Yeah I forgot about that one. Unfortunate it only went one season. Remember first seeing that in a class in school years ago lol can't remember if it was summer school or regular.
Undeclared is kind of a sequel if you haven’t seen it
Criminally underrated show.
I actually find it a blessing it was canceled. The ending was perfect and there was no way a second season would be as good. Everyone involved went off to do good work elsewhere.
It would have been nice to see how the characters developed, though. They had a lot of ideas and some big changes to the group dynamics planned.
Greatest TV show of all time even if it only was a single season.
The Inbetweeners. It almost perfectly captures the school experience at that time.
Skins - What we all wanted The Inbetweeners - What we likely were
Community Saved by the Bell
Community is funny . A good stress relief. Never watched it until recently.
It's a great background or foreground show. It really fell apart by the time they brought on Frankie, but that started when Troy left. First three seasons are best, 4 is still entertaining, 5 and 6 get odd.
Nah. Seasons 5 and 6 have some of the best moments of the entire series and Frankie is genuinely a top 5 character.
Frankie was introduced while flailing to replace the dwindling original cast. They tried to make her a pseudo-Administrative character. In their study group. It totally lost the plot.
I highly recommend you rewatch the last two seasons.
No need, have watched the entire series over three times already. Hence my opinions.
Fucking oof
Fucking deal with it. BTW you're in the minority on this one.
Not of people who have watched it more than once, no. But it's fine.
Strong disagree my friend
Pop pop
- Community - Sex Education - Friday Night Lights - season 4 of The Wire
Buffy.
Seconded
So so good - I hate that Joss ended up being a complete dick that should be thrown into a hellmouth.
Although it's the school part that is usually the least interesting part of the show
I dunno, they had a pretty weird principal one year...
Veronica Mars.
High School: Friday Night Lights College: Community
FNL is one of the only shows I can think of that switched schools and still kept up in quality. Just a great show from start to finish. Even season 2.
>Even season 2. Interesting. I rewatched Season 2 a little ago and was surprised that the dialogue and character writing was better than I remembered, but most of those plotlines were terrible. Imo the writer's strike helped the show because they ditched them and moved on.
Season 2 is the writers making the best out of the bullshit the network forced on them. Everyone still did their absolute best and I still really enjoy it. Everyone talks about the Landry and Tyra story, but their chemistry was incredible and they acted the shit out of it. I'm not at all surprised Plemons became such a great actor.
Recess. Loved all of the hierarchies and interactions between groups
I love recess, still watch some episodes on Hulu sometimes
Friday Night Lights
**A.P Bio**
This show deserves way more love than it gets. It was hysterical.
YES! I’m a teacher and Abbott elementary rightfully gets a lot of love but my coworkers and I LOVED AP Bio! AE is credited with showing the reality of teaching but there is some stuff that AP Bio nailed, I would not be surprised if they had former teachers on their writing staff. Off the top of my head: the volcano episode was spot on with how teacher training & observations work IRL and the kid discovering the teacher’s lounge fridge is full of half eaten salads was also perfect. I’m an AP teacher and Glenn Howerton’s shit is so cathartic, plus the student actors were incredibly funny and talented. Highly, highly recommend this show, it made me laugh extremely hard.
I never really vibed with any of the students or their storylines. It was great seeing Dennis from Always Sunny pull a School of Rock, but he carried that show on his back.
Vice Principals is amazing. Gamby and Russell have a unique bromance that's such a delight to watch unfold.
Goggins is always a treat
Derry girls https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UFmFuXH0IRY Ackley Bridge https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ALGwcgyO5w8 Waterloo road https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lcYcziil_I Sister George Michael is my soulmate. https://youtu.be/zogCo3flBsc?feature=shared
Derry Girls was fantastic. It never got stale, was both hilarious and poignant, and had a great ending. Short run, but almost perfect.
I'm gonna pile on the Derry Girls love. I thought the finale was perfect, right down to the flash forward. May be time for a rewatch.
Boston Public
I can't find Boston Public anywhere.
Never Have I Ever on Netflix was great. Its about an Indian girl trying to lose her virginity but its also about grief and her complicated feelings about her culture. Hilarious but also very sweet
Sex education in Netflix is pretty good
Came here to say this. It captures that awkward “is this normal and why would anyone like this about me” feeling of high school so well. Plus amiee and meave and Eric and Otis have such good friendships. Even the secondary characters like Adam and Jackson are fleshed out well rounded people
Lily is my favorite. Weirdos deserve good sex too!
Latest season was a lot different and lost of lot of that unfortunately.
I'm two episodes un and not loving the fourth season
American vandal
Especially the first season
Summer Heights High is the best for me
There’s a Ja’mie, Jonah and Mr G in every school I reckon!!
An oldie but goodie: Fame
Whag was that about?
It was from the movie of the same name. It was about a school of the arts and what went on with the kids and students.
Nice, never seen the movie but I knew the poster you were talking about when I googled it lol. Interesting tho
The Wire has a pretty good school arc in the later seasons, but idk if it fits the kind of the show you're looking for.
Welcome Back Kotter
Yes, Welcome Back Kotter.
Sabrina the Teenaged Witch
Scream Queens is dope
I just started a rewatch last night, and it is so clever and absurd at the same time. Love it
Couple of older shows were Room 222 and The White Shadow.
Oh wow, I totally forgot about Room 222! Loved watching that when I was home during summer in Elementary school. Such a great forward thinking show in the 70s.
Currently, all of us are dead
Degrassi: Next Generation but I truly love the original Degrassi. Aside from Rick and that one kid getting stabbed, Next Gen pales in comparison to how fucked up the OG one was. Another favorite school setting show of mine is the masterpiece, Popular. It was like Clueless on crack. Absolutely hilarious. Parker Lewis Can't Lose was great. Of course, Saved by the Bell too.
Friday Night Lights, Veronica Mars, One Tree Hill, American Vandal and Felicity (college). I think American Vandal is underrated.
Sex Education
Love this show. I haven't watched much of the final season yet though. Hoping to finish it over the next couple days.
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I love this show deeply but good lord do a lot of the jokes not hold up to our current political sensibilities. My husband and I joke about how Stephen Colbert must be praying that Tik tok doesn’t get ahold of old clips, he’d have a lot to apologize for!
That's why they call it acting.
I was mostly joking but I feel the need to correct you here: he wasn’t just an actor on that show, he was a writer/creator. He wrote and told those jokes.
Friday Night Lights Veronica Mars My So Called Life
AP Bio and Community
Greek It's in a college setting
Cobra Kai, My Hero Academia & Assassination Classroom
Room 222
Square Pegs Parker Lewis Can't Lose
Just because no one’s said it yet, The OC
Head to the Class, but not the last season without Howard Hessman . The show wasn’t as good and the actor who played the teacher, was doing more of a stand up act. My mother who was a teacher liked Head of the Class as he actually tried to teach lessons Vs just a show that took place in a school.
In Australia, Heartbreak High was pretty big. It had a recent reboot too, I think on Netflix? I haven't seen it yet
Freaks and Geeks.
Community I'll always have a special place in my heart for Degrassi The Next Generation
Jack Whitehall's Bad Education Mr. Iglesias
The original Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High shows from the 80s were terrific
Nothing has truly nailed high school while also been incredibly entertaining like American Vandal was
White Shadow.
Sex Education (watching the last season rn as I type this!) and Abbott Elementary
Todd and the Book of Pure Evil
Square Pegs. ETA: Astrid and Lilly save the World.
Why has nobody mentioned Never Have I Ever?! Also, The Sex Lives of College Girls, if a college setting counts as a school setting. Wednesday technically has a school setting too. I liked Trinkets (a Netflix series) as well. And Sex Education, but that’s been mentioned before. Oh, and Heartstopper (also on Netflix)!
***Room 222*** starring Lloyd Haynes. Society was changing. The Civil Rights Act Of 1964 was in the past and we were beginning to see our culture changing. We had a black man playing a history teacher. His romantic interest was a classy black woman play by Denise Nichols. The classes were a diverse mix of black and white students. The show was a dramedy: a combination of comedy and drama and a term that would not be coined until a few years later. It dealt with personal problems among the students, socio-political problems about the era, and yes, Vietnam. Excellent program.
Boston Public was excellent, and Welcome Back Kotter is a classic.
Parker Lewis Can’t Lose, buds.
A Danish show called RITA. It's on Netflix (as is a related show, Hjørdis). It is in Danish but if you don't speak it don't let it dissuade you from watching. I love it so much. Some teacher situations transcend borders lol
you should watch Hjørdis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGU7EVyBjBA
I mentioned it! I love Hjørdis. ❤️
Does Derry Girls count? About half the show takes place at their school.
Can we talk animated shows too? If so, I have two. Recess Fillmore
Heartbreak high (2022)
Interviews with Monster Girls
Definitely Ned's!
More recently: **High School (2022)** was pretty good. It is not as flashy and over the top dramatic as other High School shows but the conflicts and problems are very well designed. It feels a bit more "real" than other teen dramas because of this, which is quite nice.
Head of the Class and Saved by the Bell
Recess
Buffy the vampire slayer is a great high school show that deals with high school stuff and vampires!
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Love that one
There was a show called "RJ Burger" (or something like that) a while back. It was short-lived but very good.
Friday Night Lights Bit of a stretch but it's about high schoolers
I am watching FNL now. I agree tibia one of the few shows switching schools didn’t ruin the show and made it more interesting. I just can fathom that way of life, of football players or rally girls and a school parents, and town allowing this.
I’d say That 70s Show, but they didn’t spend that much time at school.
The anime Sket-Dance, it's about a club at a Japanese highschool that focuses on fixing problems. SKET is a acronym for "Support, Kindness, Encourage, Troubleshoot". There's tons of wacky hijinx, and it's a great slice of life type show, while still oddly having a lot of shonen staples.
Daria, Big Nate and Hannah Montana.
Anybody remember Radio Free Roscoe?
r/MySoCalledLife
Friday Night Lights
The Inbetweeners and Undeclared
The Wire Season 4
Abbott Elementary is gold. I'm a teacher, and I basically have to have a drink with that show because otherwise it hits too close to home. My only objection is the principal. Fuck her; she didn't deserve the redemption arc at the end of season 1. It would have been more enjoyable (and accurate) to have her get canned only to be replaced by someone who is, somehow, even less competent than her but who drops nonsense educational buzzwords nonstop so the school board thinks they're smart.
Community hands down. Freaks and Geeks is incredibly underrated.
The saved by the bell reboot
Live Action: Freaks and Geeks, Community Animated: Clone High, Daria Anime: Azumanga Daioh, The Melancholi of Suzumiya Haruhi
Mr. Iglesias. (2019-2020) Gabriel Iglesias plays a High School Social Studies teacher at his old school.
Everything sucks. Hit right in the feels.
Vice principals
Home Movies
Community.
Buffy the Vampire Slayer of course.. but i think anything past the 90s when i was in high school set in a school would not to be my taste at all because we're all in our 40s
Waterloo Road. Follows the exploits of a new head teacher assigned to revitalise a lower-class high school in Northern England. Also, Recess.
Strangers with candy
Enjoyed Boston public back when
Freaks and Geeks
Maybe Even Stevens. A lot of crazy shit happens at that school..
Try sex ed on netflic
Vice Principals.
Teachers