1 February 2022
A.P. Bio S1-4
A.P. Bio stars Glenn Howerton (It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia’s Dennis Reynolds) as failed philosophy academic Jack Griffin, who becomes a biology teacher at Whitlock High School, run by Principal Durbin (Patton Oswalt, Veep). But instead of teaching science, Jack uses his honour-roll students to get back at the people in his life who have wronged him.
A.P. Bio holds an 88% critics’ rating on Rotten Tomatoes, with Decider calling it, “tremendous… an outrageous tsunami of weird, wonderful comedy” and “one of the flat-out funniest shows on television…”
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