A.P. Bio: Season 1

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NBC | Peacock | Season Premiere Date: February 1, 2018

Summary: After losing out on a dream job, Harvard philosophy academic Jack Griffin (Glenn Howerton) returns to his hometown of Toledo, Ohio to teach AP (Advanced Placement) Biology and clashes with Principal Durbin (Patton Oswalt) in this comedy from Mike O’Brien, Seth Meyers and Lorne Michaels.

Creator: Mike O'Brien

Genre(s): Comedy

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Erik Adams

Feb 23, 2018

At times, A.P. Bio struggles to build a bridge between what’s happening in Jack’s classroom and the rest of Whitlock, but the performances in the B-plots are so uniformly strong, they practically justify these digressions all on their own. Read full review

Mark Dawidziak

Jan 29, 2018

From the casting to the writing, the show has class, leaving you with the hope that Jack will be destined to a long stay in Toledo. Read full review

Dana Schwartz

Jan 29, 2018

A.P. Bio is at times too straight-forward, lacking both School of Rock's freshness and the strangeness that made O'Brien's SNL shorts such standouts. [2/9 Feb 2018, p.95]

Mark A. Perigard

Jan 29, 2018

When the funniest things about a comedy are the cameos, it’s time to go back to the drawing board. Or in the case of NBC’s new sitcom A.P. Bio, back to the chalkboard. Read full review

Dan Fienberg

Feb 1, 2018

No, it isn't living up to its potential yet, but I'm convinced that if it just applies itself to its work, it could be something really good. For now, I'd just settle for the show becoming as funny as the people in the show are capable of being. Read full review

Verne Gay

Jan 31, 2018

In spite of impressive pedigree and cast, along with a few laughs, A.P. Bio ultimately earns a gentlemanly C. Read full review

Margaret Lyons

Jan 31, 2018

An abrasive sitcom that isn’t merely unfunny, it’s also deeply unpleasant. Read full review

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imthenoob

May 4, 2018

NBC knocked it out of the park with this one. The premise is a little played out but honestly, The cast saves this show and turns it into something worth watching. Howerton carries that same fire he has playing Dennis on It's Always Sunny and Oswalt plays a quality number two who's shortNBC knocked it out of the park with this one. The premise is a little played out but honestly, The cast saves this show and turns it into something worth watching. Howerton carries that same fire he has playing Dennis on It's Always Sunny and Oswalt plays a quality number two who's short appearances keep his character fresh and his interaction with Howerton's character fun to watch.… Expand

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redsaverem

Mar 1, 2018

Glenn Howerton basically just plays his character from It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia in a different setting without the rest of the Sunny cast.

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miknwilkes

Apr 3, 2018

I like it. That's all that matters. Ok, it says I need 75 characters here. Got it.

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cherold

Feb 16, 2018

Has potential, was generally amusing, but the first episode didn't grab me in the way a comedy needs to grab me in a world with truly brilliant comedies like Corporate and Kimmy Schmidt.

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BooyahMedia

Mar 10, 2018

weird and insanely noxious, it's the kind show you watch when you're super bored or have nothing better to do!!

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scrambledeggs

May 23, 2018

Couldn't watch it after the first episode. Toying on stereotypes, can you be any less creative than that? Main character is a stereotypical white male who has enjoyed privileges all his life too. The jokes are NOT funny at all. The US TV networks are really making some below average showsCouldn't watch it after the first episode. Toying on stereotypes, can you be any less creative than that? Main character is a stereotypical white male who has enjoyed privileges all his life too. The jokes are NOT funny at all. The US TV networks are really making some below average shows these days.… Expand

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echioni

Feb 9, 2019

how this totally inconclusive “comedy” series, is still on air, is a real mistery to me. or meibe not. if the executive producers weren’t lorne michaels and his pupil seth meyers, this huge absurd paradox couldn’t not be real and for sure, couldn’t pass even the first pitch, to the mosthow this totally inconclusive “comedy” series, is still on air, is a real mistery to me. or meibe not. if the executive producers weren’t lorne michaels and his pupil seth meyers, this huge absurd paradox couldn’t not be real and for sure, couldn’t pass even the first pitch, to the most wrecked tv network executives. casting is awful. but the signature of this real abortive labirinth of unfunniness, it’s that is totally not funny. it’s just a pile of nonsense, that some ‘minus habens’ has thrown on our small screens. the writers are living the biggest shortage of mediocre ideas, in a way that’s even more evident, since trump was given his unreal-twitter-based-presidency. is pure crap. and when I say that’s not funny, I mean not Seinfeld funny. I mean a level that incorporate something so low, that’s like an outsider, in a negative perspective. the poor patton oswalt, desperately, try to save himself from the deadly gravitational quicksand of a unique black hole, made of the total opposite recipe, necessary for a merely quite decent tv product, I mean a C- decent. but he’s condemned to drawing. like almost all characters, with the only exception of the young and talented Aparna Brielle, which is the only character that is, to me, actually believable. for all the rest, included the blond secretary of the poor vice principal, mr. oswalt, who’s too, by the way, a D- comedian, anyway, is ‘pollice verso’. which was the deadly posture of the right hand, of the Roman Emperors, inside The Colosseum, deciding for the bloodbath, against the unlucky centurion of the day, condemning to die in horrific way, just to please common people. the mediocre inhabitant of ancient Rome. but it was 2000 years ago. now the old recipe, the one made with the only two ingredients needed at those times, called ‘panem et Circenses”, to this days, is not enough. (I have to specify that, Roman Emperors, noted that the common people just needed bread, panem, in latin, and live shows full of violence, boat battles, lions and tigers devouring live christians, some sort of ancient Bloody Circus). but without clowns. no bozo. at that time. now we have clowns. for sure we have almost one. is easily identifiable by his baboonic orange livrea. and we know, for sure, that he is able of using also a smartphone, a device with the real opposite characteristic of the clown synapses. but now, now, we have the right to pay for excellent tv products, built by professionally, brilliantly chosen, real tv people. not just a mediocre bunch of losers, living an evident, indefinite period, of shortage of ideas. because we pay them a lot. just for some brilliant ideas. but these ideas, has to be brilliant. in the contrary case, they can go easily to sweep the streets, of our cities. even new york city. even 30 Rock. I admit I’m not in the demographic that, meibe, meibe, could be the potential audience of this garbage. but I like young sheldon. than that’s not the right angle. but, in my opinion, having resources to build a tv product, is not enough. there’s always something more that has, absolutely has to meets the eye. it is mandatory. otherwise, not to far, on line of the horizon, there will be always, always, only the failure. there was just one ‘show about nothing’. but was aired the past millennium.… Expand

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