tv show English Teacher | FX/Hulu | Renewed for Season 2

[Europe]

On 10/17/2024 at 2:59 AM, Flynn said:

Does this have high chances of being renewed?

 

The main character is so hot, I need to eat his pecs and his legs, low key his feet too.

A 100% chance. It is very successful and well-received. I expect S2 to have at least 13-15 episodes.

[Sergi91]

I love the Birthday episode! I cannot picture myself going to a leather gay bar with faculty members 

[Uncatena]

where the **** is the renewal announcement 

[Uncatena]

On 10/20/2024 at 5:21 PM, Uncatena said:

where the **** is the renewal announcement 

nvm, just read the details of the sexual assault allegations against BJA (with Stephanie being complicit as well). Chilling. As good as this show is, I won't be watching it further. 

[Rigalo]

Welp

[Almodusa]

4 nominations at the Indie Spirit Awards!

 

- Best New Scripted Series

- Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series (Brian Jordan Alvarez)

- Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series (Enrico Colantoni & Stephanie Koenig)

[Uncatena]

 

There is a reason this show has not yet been renewed. A truly nauseating article.

[Dancehall Queen]

I started watching this week and got to the camping episode and then I saw the article that dropped. The article gets into ways that Alvarez took this situation, as it was unfolding, and wrote it into his project but this stuck out to me: 

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There were moments when everyone seemed simpatico. In early December, Alvarez texted Ebeling after his own session with Johnny O. "He [Johnny O.] was clear about how you felt about the sexual aspect of things," he wrote. "He said Jon loves you but doesn't want to have a sexual relationship with you. Which was obvious but i needed to hear clearly."

 

But Alvarez seemed to fall back into what became a pattern, growing needy and fixated on the ways he felt excluded by Koenig and Ebeling's relationship.

 

Ebeling recalls Alvarez saying, "I'm up here trying to make us all famous, and who's loving me?" (Alvarez does not remember saying this.) Whenever Alvarez had these crises of confidence, Koenig was there to reassure him. As Ebeling remembers her putting it, "We've got to make sure that he's happy and he feels good and loved."

 

Early in January 2016, Alvarez told Koenig he wanted her to stop seeing Ebeling. She talked him down. "He knows he can't ask us not to see each other," she wrote to Ebeling in an email. "He's aware and was just being cranky."

This episode is all about BJA's being extremely needy and feeling excluded. Absolutely cannot continue watching this. It's just creepy at this point.

 

I feel everything supports the accusations. From the moment the assaults happened the victim was clear and voiced that it was assault, while BJA and Stephanie Koenig try to make him seem like he's responsible and fu**ed up. 

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Alvarez, speaking through his lawyer, Michael J. Kump, says Ebeling's reaction was overblown and that he was "pretending to be upset," writing, "This was the performative Kabuki theater of a self-described manipulator, who was distorting the situation to ingratiate himself to [Koenig]." He does not dispute the act but argues that because their previous sexual encounters were consensual, Alvarez assumed the same would be the case here. He is referring to both the hookup at Ebeling's apartment and the episode-two scene, during which he says both actors masturbated and Alvarez smelled Ebeling's genitals. (Ebeling says he did not masturbate and that shooting the scene didn't amount to a sex act: "Nudity on set I'm okay with. I never would have stroked my ***** in front of a camera.") Kump adds that "Brian briefly made contact with Mr. Ebeling's ***** under the covers, believing (correctly and justifiably in light of Brian's then-current sexual relationship with Mr. Ebeling) that Mr. Ebeling was fine with it." Ebeling says the oral sex occurred for "a whole take." In a follow-up, Alvarez's representatives say Ebeling "consented verbally" to doing it "for real" beforehand. ("Produce the evidence," Ebeling says. "No way in hell would I have ever consented to that.")

Also, this has to be one of the worst statements ever released. The kabuki theater **** is absurd, but also not being able to deny anything happened, only that consent was "assumed". 

[Dancehall Queen]

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"Brian felt a permission to be a bit more extroverted and to potentially cross some boundaries with straight guys," says a former college friend. "It was like, 'This is who I am, and I'm going to express my own sexuality, and you can't tell me not to because that would be oppressive.'"

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The behavior coincided with a period when Alvarez was drinking heavily and using Adderall. It became enough of a problem that he had to leave school and go home to Tennessee to get sober. When he returned to USC in the spring of 2010, some students had been cast in a production of a musical written by Parmer Fuller, one of their professors. Among them was Alvarez, whom another student had been assigned to drive to rehearsals. The classmate says that when he picked Alvarez up, he seemed intoxicated or high and that Alvarez began groping his groin while he was driving. "He kept making passes at me, and there was nothing I could do about it," says the former classmate. "It got to the point where I was so uncomfortable I didn't want to be in the same room with him, and I didn't want to pick him up."

 

Alvarez says he has "no recollection" of groping anyone in college but acknowledges harassing another student. He says he has been sober since May 1, 2010, and "recognizes that, when under the influence, his behavior could often be insensitive and damaging" and that he has "apologized often to those he might have hurt and has always been deeply grateful for their apparent understanding and forgiveness."

 

Alvarez's fantasies of reciprocation recur throughout his work. In 2017, he wrote a feature script, Everything Is Free, based on his feelings toward another straight male student at USC. In that film, Alvarez's character, Ivan, falls in love with a presumably straight guy named Cole. Cole keeps sending Ivan mixed messages — hooking up with him while maintaining his heterosexuality. Cole's older brother, Christian, is a homophobe who forcibly keeps them apart. Ivan shows up to Cole's house at night, trying to win him back, only for Christian to punch him in the face. In a years-later coda, Cole returns to Ivan to say he was, indeed, always in love with him.

The whole article is filled with BJA being creepily obsessed with straight men. 

[Almodusa]

 

[X~MoviePoP]

I guess the controversy didnt blow up big enough for them to care

[Dancehall Queen]

Disgusting.