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- 2014
- TV-14
- CBS
- 2014
- TV-14
- CBS
Summary Meredith Davis (Ari Graynor) poses as a teacher at her friend's step-daughter's school after convincing Principal Carl Gaines (David Alan Grier), but not everyone is so easily fooled in this comedy based on the 2011 film of the same name.
- 2014
- TV-14
- CBS
- 2014
- TV-14
- CBS
Bad Teacher
Season 1 Premiere: Apr 24, 2014
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4.3
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Summary Meredith Davis (Ari Graynor) poses as a teacher at her friend's step-daughter's school after convincing Principal Carl Gaines (David Alan Grier), but not everyone is so easily fooled in this comedy based on the 2011 film of the same name.
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
51
27% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
27% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 22 Critic Reviews
51
27% Positive
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
45% Mixed
10 Reviews
10 Reviews
27% Negative
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
The team behind Bad Teacher has successfully reconfigured the raunchy comedy into a heart warming sitcom starring Ari Graynor that is still bad in all the right ways. [28 Apr 2014]
Meredith is a gold-digger, but when push comes to shove she chooses her students’ welfare over her ambition to become someone’s new wife. That is a pat resolution in a movie but not enough to sustain a series.
As is so often the case, the premiere episode tries too hard and isn’t as funny as it could be. The writing loosens up later on, and has some charm.
It’s not about a “bad” teacher, just a slightly irreverent one.
Perhaps “Mediocre Teacher” would be a better title for this so-so comedy about trophy wife Meredith Davis (Ari Graynor), who suddenly finds herself replaced by a shinier trophy.
Bad Teacher has its moments, with dialogue that's sometimes sharper than the situations. It isn't nearly funny enough, though, to make me want to spend another period--much less the rest of the school year--watching Graynor vamp her way through American history.
Leached of the original's tart sense of humor, the series quickly settles into lowest-common-denominator boilerplate, an unintended critique of the declining sitcom formula.
User Score
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Based on 35 User Ratings
4.3
29% Positive
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23% Mixed
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49% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 35 User Ratings
4.3
29% Positive
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
23% Mixed
8 Ratings
8 Ratings
49% Negative
17 Ratings
17 Ratings
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Production Company:
- Gifted and Talented Camp
- Mosaic
- Quantity Entertainment
- CBS Television Studios
- Sony Pictures Television
Initial Release Date: Apr 24, 2014
Number of seasons: 1 Season
Rating: TV-14
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