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Weve seen our share of ambivalent, cynical educators on screens big and small over the past decade-plus.

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I know more than all of you combined, so that doesnt make any sense.

The kids first assignment?

Write provocative messages to Miles that can be used to catfish him online.

Ill stop there because you probably get the picture.

I thought about this for a while and … nope, I couldnt think of a worse time.

All of that said, like high school itself,A.P.

Bio, whose executive producers include Seth Meyers and Lorne Michaels, does get a little better.

One of them: Kokomo is it real.

Why are the other ones real?

Durbin asks in his own Beach Boys-confused defense.

Bioswerves toward quirky jokes like that and away from its attempts at edginess, the better it is.

Like: why, exactly, was Jack fired from Harvard?

Most importantly, why the hell was Jack hired to teach A.P.

(I cant remember the last time I saw a classroom with an actual chalkboard in it.)

If the world ofA.P.

(It doesnt help thatGreat Newspreviously owned this NBC time slot.)

But like its protagonist, at this stage,A.P.