View Full Version : NBC Mid-Season Pilot Review: A.P. Bio - Premieres February 1


TJ
02-01-2018, 03:09 PM
A.P. Bio - Thursdays at 9:30PM ET/PT on NBC
Premieres Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 9:30PM ET/PT

When disgraced Harvard philosophy scholar Jack Griffin (Glenn Howerton) loses out on his dream job, he is forced to return to Toledo, Ohio, and work as a high school AP Bio teachers. Jack makes it absolutely clear he will not be teaching any biology. Realizing he has a room full of honor roll students at his disposal, Jack decides instead to use the kids for his own benefit.

Read our review here:
http://blog.sitcomsonline.com/2018/01/nbc-mid-season-pilot-review-ap-bio.html

Chocolate Moose
02-01-2018, 03:51 PM
It actually sounded kind of bad.

TMC
02-02-2018, 09:00 PM
NBC’s A.P. Bio has everything you want in a comedy -- except for the laughs (https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/ap-bio-review-1080713)
“If NBC's new comedy A.P. Bio were a high school senior, it would have a solid roster of extracurriculars, a winning personality made for entrance interviews, and it would write thoughtful and introspective college essays,” says Daniel Fienberg. “The only thing keeping it from getting into the university of its choice would be a report card listing straight Cs. To crack my deeply complicated analogy code: As a TV show, A.P. Bio has nearly everything you'd want in a comedy, including a solid premise, a great cast and a particular visual style. The only thing holding it back is the small quibble that it's not actually all that funny.”

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We’ve seen variations of A.P. Bio many times before (http://www.tvguide.com/news/ap-bio-review-glenn-howerton)
It’s the wrong show at the wrong time, though it’s most frustrating in that it’s close to being funny (https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/31/arts/television/ap-bio-review.html)
A.P. Bio proves to be an “extraordinary new comedy” in its first two minutes (https://decider.com/2018/02/01/glenn-howerton-nbc-delightfully-demented-ap-bio/)