Review: “Abbott Elementary” returns for another school year after its big night at the Emmys
” Leslie Knope is a more benign figure, but her friends and co-workers regularly confided in asides to the camera their slightly underhanded techniques for dealing with the civil servant’s inexhaustible, and thus utterly exhausting, enthusiasm.
On “Abbott” — named after the underfunded school where the series is set — teachers put on happy or hopeful or encouraging faces for their students, and sometimes even for each other, while knowing they’re. “Welcome to the Philly public school system,” says a veteran teacher in the new season, “where you never have what you need.
Receiving textbooks just a few years old is a cause for celebration in the “Abbott” universe, but the laugh-track-free comedy isn’t part of the ongoing trend of socially conscious. Inspired by creator and star Quinta Brunson’s mother’s experiences as a Philadelphia schoolteacher, the show is meant to be a celebration of the persistence and resourcefulness of educators, rather than a dwelling on deprivation.
Viewers are given the leeway to read as much or as little social commentary as they wish into the small-scale stakes: idealistic newish teacher Janine’s quest to replace the rug in her second-grade classroom with a pee-free one, for instance, or educational lifer Barbara’s determination to find a desk for an incoming student with a wheelchair.” — and accordingly, the scripts are full of sharp gags about social media and pop culture, lending the show a contemporary effervescence.
Janine and her fellow neophytes — White guilt-ridden Jacob and substitute-turned-full-timer Gregory — keep the references current, while the seasoned Barbara and Melissa laugh with custodian Mr. Johnson at their younger counterparts’ romantic notions of overcoming the grinding bureaucracy that the old-timers have figured out how to work around. If there were a shortcut, the school’s doyennes probably would’ve figured it out by now.
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