This was highly recommended by some people, so I gave it a try. I'll be honest, sitcom is not my favorite genre. But there have been some classic sitcoms with characters who were friends or at least polite to each other and whom you cared about, and even sitcoms with something important to say. After the first few episodes, which had some funny scenes, I began to realize that a couple of the characters snipe at each other and no one is really friends with anyone else. The character of the principal is a horrible person who engages in sexual harassment and borderline fraud/financial mismanagement. This would have been interesting in a police show with a resolution but kind of weird in a sitcom. There's a recurring theme about how schools are underfunded, but meanwhile, teachers leave their classrooms or engage in inappropriate gossip with each other in front of elementary school students. It was not fun to watch and I'm passing on the rest of the season(s).
Review of Abbott Elementary
