This new series is the perfect comedy to laugh with your family, with your teenagers, during the end-of-year holidays

The Disney+ platform has resources to keep the whole family busy during the end-of-year holidays. With this sitcom, new in France, parents and teenagers will be able to find common ground on the program to be put on TV.

The end-of-year holiday season is often synonymous with family reunions and time spent together. But when parents, grandparents, uncles, aunts, teenagers and cousins ​​are gathered on the same sofa, a decisive puzzle remains: what are we going to put on TV? After the capon’s stuffing or the good log recipe, finding common ground on television is one of the great challenges of Christmas. In this area, the Disney+ platform is a great problem solver. Already because its catalog of animated productions for children continues to defy all competition: between the series Blueywith unbeatable popularity among toddlers, and Pixar programs, like Dreams Productions (mini-series adapted from the universe of Vice-Versa), parents have plenty to keep their children busy. But also because it offers series that will please the whole family, as is the case withEnglish Teachersitcom available on Disney+ since Wednesday, December 18.

English Teacher on Disney+: don’t panic, here’s the series that parents and teenagers will love!

Head to Austin, Texas. Evan (Brian Jordan Alvarez, who also directs the series) is a young English teacher at a public high school. Openly gay, other teachers and students often turn to him as soon as a question arises about sexuality or gender identities. Often jaded by being the chief referent, Evan complains, drags on and regularly ends up facing lunar debates which illuminate the gap between his ideas and those of his students, or even between the students themselves. This eight-episode series humorously explores the tensions that exist in debates of ideas, whether cultural or political, especially in a major state in the South of the United States. By pushing situations to the absurd, this comedy does not aim to be moralistic but to explore points of view, thanks to young people with increasingly assertive ideals and teachers who must constantly adapt without becoming discouraged.

English Teacher on Disney+: a sitcom with a classic form but with undeniable comic energy

As in life, there are as many student and teacher profiles as there are actors. From the progressive science teacher to the outdated football coach, who tries as best as possible to live with the times, the gags follow one another and turn out to be rather successful, thanks to an ensemble cast that takes its roles head on. body. We even find Enrico Colantoni, flagship actor of Veronica Marsas a gruff but touching principal. If the students are only played by young actors, who are taking their first steps on screen here, the collective energy gives tone and color to this classic sitcom.