Fellow TV obsessives: We finally have a worthy successor to “The Office,” Nina_Metz writes of ABC’s “Abbott Elementary.”
Fellow TV obsessives: We finally have a worthy successor to “The Office” in ABC’s “Abbott Elementary.” Created by Quinta Brunson, who also stars alongside a terrific ensemble that includes the great Sheryl Lee Ralph, the show centers on an eclectic group of teachers working at an under-resourced elementary school.
Schools — both functional and less so — probably benefit from this kind of young can-do optimism and more seasoned realism mashup, and as a setting for a workplace comedy it’s pretty ingenious: This is what it looks like when your job feels absurd but also deeply meaningful. There’s nothing wrong with selling stuff, but as “The Office” and “Superstore” later made clear, it can all feel so pointless in the end.
Then there’s the school principal played by Janelle James, who is essentially the show’s Michael Scott character: A fundamentally self-involved and ridiculous person who is somehow in a position of authority. Two things about this: James has found a very funny way to inhabit such a broad and insufferable character type, and “Abbott Elementary” itself has good instincts about just how much time this character warrants in any given episode .
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