If you have to watch one Netflix show this November, stream this one

Shows from different networks and streamers person helped Netflix make it almost each of nan measurement done 2024 without losing excessively overmuch momentum aft past year’s Hollywood strikes. Between comedies for illustration Reba, Martin, and My Wife and Kids, arsenic good arsenic dramas including Lost, Prison Break, Fire Country, and Yellowjackets, Netflix has revitalized older and much caller bid while nan streamer’s original programing caught up aft six months successful limbo. A.P. Bio is 1 of nan bid from different streamer that’s coming later this month, and it’s our prime for nan 1 Netflix show that you request to watch successful November.

A.P. Bio primitively ran for 2 seasons connected NBC, wherever it didn’t negociate to pull a ample audience. But during nan highest of nan streaming era, A.P. Bio sewage a 2nd chance astatine life connected Peacock for 2 further seasons. It’s not nan first show from Comcast’s streamer to migrate complete to Netflix, but it mightiness person amended luck than Girls5eva, which really sewage a caller play to spell on pinch its caller home.

Saturday Night Live seasoned Paula Pell is nan connecting nexus betwixt some shows, and she is arguably 1 of nan funniest performers connected either. Yet nan main logic why A.P. Bio could break retired successful its caller streaming life is that this is simply a sitcom that’s simultaneously acquainted and yet hilariously darker than galore web TV comedies get to be.

Hangin’ pinch Mr. Griffin

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TV comedies person a agelong history of placing put-upon teachers successful starring rolls. The 1970s sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter is an apt comparison for A.P. Bio, because for illustration Gabe Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) — nan title characteristic of nan earlier show — Jack Griffin (Glenn Howerton) had large dreams earlier he had to return to return a lowly school position astatine his hometown precocious school. But dissimilar Kotter, Jack is vengeful and he wants to do thing to get his retribution and flight his fate.

More caller drama fans whitethorn announcement immoderate similarities betwixt Jack and Community‘s Jeff Winger (Joel McHale), though nan erstwhile is acold much selfish. Think of this show arsenic School of Rock, if Jack Black’s characteristic had nary redeeming values. Griffin doesn’t want to thatch his newfound students anything, he conscionable wants to enlist them successful his galore plans for revenge against his rival, Miles Leonard (Tom Bennett). As a accuracy professor, Jack’s not really qualified to beryllium school Advanced Placement Biology successful nan first place, and he flat-out tells nan kids successful his people that he’s not going to thatch them anything.

Because of nan quality of these benignant of shows, Jack’s harsher edges get a small faded complete time. And a bully woody of nan drama revolves astir really acold Jack is consenting to spell to get what he wants.

Never underestimate nan worth of a awesome supporting cast

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Howerton is champion known for starring successful FX’s It’s Always Sunny successful Philadelphia, which is still going almost 2 decades aft its launch. He useful champion arsenic portion of an ensemble, and A.P. Bio gives Howerton a bully formed to play disconnected of, including Patton Oswalt arsenic Principal Ralph Durbin. Oswalt’s idealistic Principal Durbin is nan ideological other of Jack’s much self-centered character, and it’s almost ever funny to spot them together. Similarly, Pell lights up nan surface truthful often arsenic Durbin’s secretary, Helen Demarcus, that nan bid recovered a measurement to springiness her a larger domiciled successful nan past 2 seasons.

Jack has his ain circle of friends among his chap teachers, including Stef Duncan (Lyric Lewis), Mary Wagner (Mary Sohn), and Michelle Jones (Jean Villepique). But immoderate of nan champion moments successful nan show travel from Jack’s interplay pinch his students, including Marcus Kasperak (Nick Peine), Heather Wilmore (Allisyn Snyder), Anthony Lewis (Eddie Leavy), Sarika Sarkar (Aparna Brielle), and Colin McConnell (Tucker Albrizzi). There wouldn’t beryllium a show without them.

The bid gets funnier … and weirder arsenic it goes along

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A.P. Bio took immoderate clip to find its comedic hit successful nan show’s earliest days, and it’s not a masterpiece retired of nan gate. It’s easy to hide that immoderate of nan long-running sitcoms of nan ’90s, including Seinfeld and Friends, needed immoderate clip to find themselves arsenic well. A.P. Bio didn’t get arsenic overmuch room to turn arsenic those classics, but nan 3rd and 4th seasons successful peculiar fto nan show clasp its ain unsocial and weird comedy.

The 4th play premiere, for example, puts astir of nan main characters into instrumentality fabrication arsenic written by nan kids successful Jack’s class. That instrumentality fabrication includes placing immoderate of nan show’s acquainted characters into a bizarre Western, arsenic seen successful nan image above. Bruce Campbell besides impermanent stars precocious successful nan bid arsenic Jack’s estranged father, John Griffin. And erstwhile you spot John, it will beryllium evident why Jack turned retired nan measurement that he did.

Because A.P. Bio was canceled for a 2nd clip aft its 4th season, nan show doesn’t get a accepted sendoff. It useful champion arsenic a snapshot successful clip of this schoolhouse and these characters. There whitethorn not beryllium a batch of closure, but location are a batch of laughs if this is your benignant of comedy.

Watch A.P. Bio on Netflix connected November 15.