FX’s uproarious workplace comedy, English Teacher, has scored high marks in its debut season, but is Brian Jordan Alvarez’s new show going to earn a second season? English Teacher centers on Alvarez’s Evan Marquez, an English teacher at a high school in Austin, Texas, who is struggling to hold onto his job while balancing the shifting landscape and politics of 2020s culture. Though the concept isn’t all that original, English Teacher shines because it highlights the growing generational divide between aging Millennials and their Gen Alpha successors by poking fun at all sides of the equation.
