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2012 | Maturity Rating:TV-MA | 5 Seasons | Drama
Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, schoolteacher Rita fares less well with adults in this comedy-drama from Denmark.
Starring:Mille Dinesen, Lise Baastrup, Carsten Bjørnlund
Creators:Christian Torpe
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Rita
Release year: 2012
A politically incorrect teacher sees her life take an unexpected turn when the man who was her high school sweetheart comes back on the scene.
1. The Idealist
42m
Ricco's father-in-law turns out to be Rita's high school sweetheart. Meanwhile, Rita's battle at school with a 14-year-old know-it-all goes wrong.
2. The Teacher
38m
A new student suffers socially when his parents demand a schoolwide ban on sugar. Meanwhile, Rita's estranged mother wants to get back in touch.
3. The Anarchist
40m
When a school talent show forces Rita to re-evaluate her uncompromising relationship to truth, she realizes she's been doing some lying of her own.
4. The Whore
38m
Rita finds porn on Jeppe's computer and fears he'll share what she knows firsthand is a destructive relationship to sex.
5. The Protector
41m
Rita protects a troubled kid with ADHD from vandalism charges but forgets to fight for her own son when he's the victim of hate crime bullying.
6. The Hypocrite
37m
Rita finds drugs at school, but the accused student points Rita in the direction of her own son, Jeppe. Molly gets a job at a hospice.
7. The Princess
38m
When Rita takes over a second-grade theater production, her own life story begins to blend with the fairy tale the kids are playing out.
8. The Mother
37m
A lonely Rita starts hanging out with Rosa. But all hell breaks loose when Rosa realizes that Rita was the one her dad was having an affair with.
Release year: 2013
In Season 2, Rita decides to commit to her relationship with Rasmus, hoping it will help her grow up and make her more "normal."
1. The Grown Up
45m
A pregnant Rita faces a difficult decision: She can keep the baby but never reveal who the father is, or she can get an abortion.
2. The Garden
42m
Rita and Rasmus move in together, and Rita tries her best to act like an adult -- until Rasmus puts a rose bed in her beloved wilderness of a garden.
3. And Baby Makes Three
41m
Rita "lends" her own grandchild to a pregnant girl in her class in an attempt to convince her to get an abortion, but the plan backfires.
4. Team Player
41m
It's sports day, and Helle wants to protect the losers from having an upsetting experience -- but Rita takes up the struggle for the right to win.
5. I Love You
42m
Another teacher is picking on Rita's student, and Rita has to take up the cause -- but it's not easy when the teacher uses bureaucracy as a weapon.
6. First Love
42m
A student in Rita's class falls hopelessly in love with her at the same time that her own first love, Tom, reappears in her life at a family baptism.
7. The Role Model
41m
Rita and Rasmus struggle to save their relationship, but an innocent meeting with a colleague has unexpected consequences.
8. Weeds
40m
For the first time in her life, Rita has gone down for the count, but she has to rediscover her fighting spirit when Erik strikes a student.
Release year: 2015
Rita reports to a new boss, takes a destructive student under her wing and faces living alone. Hjørdis must adjust when Uffe gets a job at the school.
1. The Candidate
42m
Inspired by local politics, Rita holds an election in her class. Uffe gets a job at the school, but it sparks conflict with Hjørdis.
2. The Basement
41m
Helle hires a motivational coach for the students. Meanwhile, Jeppe moves in with his boyfriend, and Rita struggles with living on her own.
3. The Sponsor Kid
41m
A problem student goes on a destructive rampage, Hjørdis makes progress with her second graders, and a man from Rita's past shows up.
4. Evening Classes
41m
To combat loneliness, Rita invites some students to her house. Meanwhile, Hjørdis tries to spice up her sex life with Uffe.
5. Lice
41m
Rita's fourth graders come down with head lice, and she decides to delouse them herself. Meanwhile, Helle faces evaluation by her peers.
6. Free Fall
42m
Rita tries to keep the police in the dark when Hjørdis decides on the perfect item to bury in a time capsule: marijuana.
7. The Leader
42m
Overcome by stress, Helle asks Rita to become the school's temporary headmaster, and Hjørdis's class celebrates Saint Lucy's day with style.
8. The Test
42m
Rita agrees to act as temporary headmaster in Helle's absence, and Hjørdis and Uffe face an important decision regarding their relationship.
Release year: 2017
A new teaching job takes Rita back to her childhood hometown, where flashbacks to 1985 reveal her tumultuous personal and academic life as a teenager.
1. Past/Present
40m
Rita reluctantly takes a new job at the school she attended as a teen in her hometown, where she runs into an old classmate who is less than welcoming.
2. You Are What You Eat
40m
Rita, who hates cooking, struggles to fill in as a home economics teacher. Hjørdis tries to help Allan overcome his fears about an upcoming field trip.
3. Sudden Thaw
39m
A bomb threat scares the whole school -- except Rita. Hjørdis worries that her and Uffe's strange hobbies will hurt their son socially when he's older.
4. True Friends
41m
Lea invites Rita to join her family for dinner, echoing a day in 1985 when teenage Rita had dinner with Lea's parents and was called to Lea's rescue.
5. You and I
40m
When one of Rita's first-graders doesn't want to take a turn bringing home "Sharebear," the class teddy bear, she visits his home to find out why.
6. Childhood Street
42m
To try to save the school from closure, the staff organizes a fundraiser, including a play by Hjørdis's class with Allan in the lead role.
7. Family
42m
Bjarne can't bear to break the bad news to his staff and becomes self-destructive. The event in 1985 that led to Lea falling out with Rita is revealed.
8. Home
42m
When history starts to repeat itself, Rita retreats in self-defeat, until a loyal friend gives her the support she needs to figure out her future.
Release year: 2020
The demands of running a school strain Hjørdis's relationships with Rita and Uffe. An old flame re-enters Rita's life. A heartbroken Jeppe returns home.
1. Fake News
41m
A young Holocaust denier creates a stir at Hjørdis and Rita's school. Helle asks Rita to help Rasmus accept a hard truth. Uffe meets a kindred spirit.
2. Hullabaloo House
38m
Rita tries to stop a shy student's parents from uprooting him to move to Greenland. Rasmus meets someone on Tinder. Hjørdis helps a student face a fear.
3. The Outing
39m
During a field trip to Sweden, Rita rubs the local townsfolk the wrong way. Niels brings Jeppe back to Denmark, where Rasmus and Uffe help the two bond.
4. Do You Speak English?
42m
When an odd new student suddenly pops up in class, Rita gets a moneymaking idea. Jeppe goes on a Tinder date. Attraction builds between Rasmus and Rita.
5. Hot Flash
39m
Uffe tries to avoid Pil. Rita worries that one of her night-class students might be a victim of domestic abuse. Jeppe learns Ole is still in the closet.
6. Boundaries
39m
Jeppe's ex unexpectedly returns. Hjørdis helps a student whose parents use her as a go-between. Rita's friendship with Gerd becomes a problem in class.
7. The Lake
40m
Rita struggles to process her overwhelming feelings of guilt. Ole reveals to Jeppe that he's met someone else — whom his grandmother approves of.
8. Chaos
41m
Jeppe learns Ole is going to propose to Camilla. A new student who leads the other pupils in a school strike reminds Rita why she became a teacher.
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Genres
TV Dramas, Danish, TV Comedies
This show is...
Witty, Irreverent
Cast
Mille DinesenLise BaastrupCarsten BjørnlundEllen HillingsøNikolaj GrothKristoffer FabriciusAlexandre WillaumeMorten Vang SimonsenSara Hjort DitlevsenFerdinand Gomez Glad BakLykke Sand MichelsenCarsten NorgaardCharlotte MunckTessa HoderSofie Juul Nielsen
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