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\u201cHere’s the deal. I do not care about biology. We\u2019re not going to do any biology in here. And to be perfectly clear, this won\u2019t be one of those things where, over the course of the year, I secretly teach it to you. This also won’t be one of those things where I end up learning more from you than you do from me,\u201d says Jack, skewering two of the traditional tropes of high school teacher stories before the credits have even rolled. \u201cI know more than all of you combined so that doesn’t make any sense.\u201d<\/p>\n
Instead, he continues. \u201cI’m going to spend the majority of my time mentally breaking my nemesis, with the ultimate goal of taking his job as the head of Stanford Philosophy, and then, I\u2019m gonna have sex with as many women as I possibly can throughout the entire state of California. But, you don’t need to concern yourselves with that.\u201d<\/p>\n
While not all critics thought that was a politically correct set-up for a comedy in 2018, NBC has already renewed the show for a second season. Indiewire called A.P. Bio \u201cSmart. Surprising. Delightful. Plays against expectation to earn that A\u2026 An ensemble comedy with exciting players in every part.\u201d And AVClub wrote, \u201cGlenn Howerton is hilarious\u201d and called the comedy \u201cbrisk, funny, and reliably surprising.\u201d<\/p>\n
Emmy winner (and stand-up comic) Patton Oswalt (Parks and Recreation, Young Adult) co-stars. \u201cI play the principal, who is very, very excited to have a Harvard professor there, but in order to keep said professor I really have to put up with a lot from him,\u201d says Patton. \u201cMy relationship with him is the same as a road manager with a demanding rock star. He\u2019s the guy who\u2019s bringing in the prestige and money so I have to put up with his insane demands.\u201d<\/p>\n
The half-hour comedy is created by five-time Emmy nominee Mike O\u2019Brien (Saturday Night Live), who also executive produces with Emmy-winning SNL alumni Seth Meyers, Lorne Michaels and Mike Schoemaker, among others.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt comes from the feeling of having grown up in the Midwest in a small town just outside of Toledo, and then working in New York for Saturday Night Live, and flying back and forth for the holidays, and feeling the contrast of those two worlds,\u201d says Mike. \u201cI thought it would be an interesting character trait to look down on where you come from, because you were fancy for a few years, but to be slowly won over by it again.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m always looking for a really original voice and a style of humour I\u2019ve never seen before,\u201d says Glenn, who\u2019s also a co-creator and writer on It\u2019s Always Sunny In Philadelphia. \u201cMike really has that unique sensibility and that ability to write simple, believable yet really funny dialogue. His gift with dialogue is my favourite thing about the show.\u201d<\/p>\n
Patton agrees. \u201cIt\u2019s amazing: every script is just joke-packed.\u201d (Although Mike says a lot of the best lines came from late additions from Patton himself. \u201cHe\u2019s hilarious as a stand-up comedian, so sometimes I tap him for an extra joke or a line,\u201d says Mike. \u201cHe\u2019s a really fast writer so he can think up better lines on the fly most of the time than I can.\u201d)<\/p>\n
The comedy-all-star directing line-up include Emmy winner Ryan Case (Modern Family) and Emmy nominees Carrie Brownstein (Portlandia), Osmany Rodriguez (The Last Man On Earth), and Daniel Gray Longino (Who Is America?), not to mention BAFTA nominees Julie Anne Robinson (Orange is the New Black) and Tristram Shapeero (Peep Show), and Sundance winner Lynn Shelton (Glow).<\/p>\n \u201cPraise is due to Oz Rodriguez, director of the pilot and several early episodes, for establishing an aesthetic that is instantly distinctive,\u201d wrote The Hollywood Reporter. \u201cThere’s a highly stylized drabness typified by accentuating certain colors like teal and orange at the expense of primary colors\u2026 Admirable in a world in which so few comedies take visual risks.\u201d<\/p>\n Laugh your way through all 13 episodes of A.P. Bio, first and only on Showmax.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In A.P. Bio, now first and only on Showmax, Glenn Howerton (Dennis from It\u2019s Always Sunny In Philadelphia) stars as Jack Griffin, \u00a0a disgraced Harvard philosophy scholar who\u2019s forced to return to Toledo, Ohio, and work as a high school Advanced Placement biology teacher. As he comes crashing into Whitlock High School (literally), Jack bluntly… Continue reading Glenn Howerton, Patton Oswalt High School Comedy Now Streaming On Showmax<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[110],"class_list":["post-7727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-online","tag-showmax","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/TV_APB01_I1007_2662.jpg?resize=450%2C300\")