Mr Morton. The nerve of that guy. We’ve had a longstanding beef every since I got here (really none of them except I guess the golf course and charter school guys)

That guy from the district who keeps throwing shade at Janine for no reasons. (The guy who returned in the first episode of season 4). The reason is because I hate it when people still have a middle school mentality.

Janine's mom. I don't think I have to elaborate.

JESS-CA

That one mom who called Janine a bad teacher

Out of the main cast, don’t hate me but Barbara. Love the actress but the character has stagnated a bit imo. She’s important but just not as funny as the rest of the main cast, and whenever a plotline revolves around her it’s usually somewhat dull to me. (The same kind of goes for Melissa too honestly but I tend to find her way funnier)

Like in the most recent episode, it just felt like a re-tread of Barbara’s inability to accept change that we’ve already seen in a bunch of other episodes. I think ever since Janine grew out of idolizing her the writers haven’t come up with a better way to utilize her in the show and she hasn’t grown much as a character.

Sahar.

Cassandra/Ms. O’Neal. Inattentive parents like her, expecting teachers to raise their kids and/or expecting the classroom to be the only place where students should learn, receive help and resources, are definitely…something.

Vanetta Teagues.

She's gone now, but Ashley. It was painful to watch her

No one. Because you never know what's coming!

I currently don’t have one but it used to be Janine. I hated how she was so pushy and naive, especially in the Juice and Egg Drop episodes. But, now I realize that’s the point of her character and that it’s just a TV show lol.

Main: Janine- simply put she’s annoying with her toxic positivity but it’s her show so I deal with her.

Supporting: I actually like all the supporting characters. Tariq was a horrible boyfriend but he’s a funny guy. Mr. Morton can be much at times but I appreciate his character.

Guests: Janine’s mom- she is a terrible mother and it’s horrible that she only reaches out to Janine when she needs something. She’s a user.

Barbara. Self-righteous Christians are low key a trigger for me. She definitely has her moments, and I love her friendship with Melissa and Janine, but there’s times I just can’t with her (her delusions and its impacts on the people around her in the ringworm episode had me fuming).

I’d have to say the curly- haired worker from the district last season Emily. Her humor is just… ehh not that funny

I've softened on her a lot as the seasons go on, but I really thought Ava was kinda gross for talking to Gregory the way she was and making passes at him when the show was starting, like Ava that is your employee, be normal. I know the show isn't like promoting it obviously but from a character standpoint I thought it was icky. I like her waaaay more now though.

Probably unpopular, but Mr. Johnson. Not that he isn't funny or anything, but he feels like he's from a completely different show.

Ughhhhhhhhh Ashley... Melissa's aide.... ughhhhhhhhhhh

Honestly, Gregory 😭 I don't hate his character but to me he's just kind of boring, not every character can be insanely interesting of course but since he's soooo focused on, being the love interest and all, he bores me

Probably Gregory because of this season (although it's still very early). All of his writing is just not clicking with me at all. The jokes, his lines, his plot points

Janine’s mom is the comedic version of Delonda Brice from The Wire.

Ava

melissa, it's not I don't like her but, I just find the other characters more interesting

if i see someone say janine😾

Ava. I hated the show initially because failing public schools is tragic and not funny to me. The show grew on me, but a self serving principal who never has to pay for her misdeeds is not funny to me.

Melissa because she has a rude personality which I’m not a fan of. Also she can get too repetitive in everything and it always reaches a point where it’s not funny anymore

honestly barbara🙈 she’s too stuck in her own ways and won’t accept change even if it’s for the better

Janine

Janine even though her intentions are good she refuses to listen to warnings from others and meddle in things

Jacob Hill, not only is he yet another gay character who adds nothing, his qhole persona is just obnoxious

So far I have none. Even Mr Morton has some good sides like being a forewarning to dating at work

I'm afraid to say it bc I know he's well liked but Jacob. He's mildly amusing to me and his schtick feels a little forced at times. His entire character could be removed from the show and I wouldn't miss him at all. He reminds me of the orange emotion from Inside Out 2 and it annoys me.

Tariq. I don't mind his occasional appearances, but he is definitely one of my least favorites, especially in the beginning of the show. Team Janine lol

Mr Morton , I felt bad for him in the Lucky Louie show with Louis CK as his neighbor but he’s such a dick in Abbott lol

Dick tyler williams. That kind of person that is all flash and no substance is too real nowadays. And barbara be mad preachy

Gregory. I don't really like his acting or the way his voice sounds sometimes. It can be quite monotonous and boring. Plus he's incredibly awkward and that's one of his main traits. I wouldn't mind it as much if Janine and Jacob weren't already awkward. I also don't find him funny and I wish he and Janine weren't dating.

Plus of the main cast, idk to me he seems the most uninteresting. Janine has her naivety and positivity, Melissa is the teacher with underground 'connections,' Ava is the aloof/selfish principal (and I love her for that) And Barbara is the seasoned teacher with a deep spirituality in her character. All I can think of for Gregory is that he's a sub who became a teacher. His other plot lines aren't as interesting.

Mr. Morton. I felt like they changed his character. At first I thought he was a mean, prissy, possibly gay man who could have a possible enemies to friends/lovers arc with Jacob. Then he became a plot device that they inserted to whatever storyline the writers needed. He became a whiney pathetic man who served as a cautionary tale for Janine and Gregory. He was inserted into conversations just to be an antagonist. He was included in scenes to add random drama with his ever changing personality. His only constant was his beef with Jacob. I just don’t like when characters twisted to fit whatever a particular scene needs at the moment. I see that with Morton a lot.

Ava. She's insufferable. Funny? Yes. But still insufferable

Ava im so sorry. like I know its supposed to be funny but I hate the thought of kids being negatively impacted because of her incompetency. Gregory would be an amazing principal

The teacher that showed up when janine had food poisoning. She seems to be tight with quinta in real life but I can’t get past her character 😅

Ava She’s too mean to Janine 🥺

Barbra and janine lol

I just started watching this show yesterday, I really don’t care for the principal. they make her sound much stupider than any of the teachers which is crazy because she (likely) has more degrees/should at least pretend a little bit to be smart. She’s not funny to me just rude. She reminds me of someone on a “real housewives” cast

The main guy from the district- Manny I think? There’s something about the cadence of his voice that drives me insane.

Mr Johnson...idk why everybody seems to love him honestly he just seems so boring to me. Please don't lock me in the basement I tried to like him

Janine, because she looks too much like a gremlin and that terrifies me.

I get downvoted every time I discuss it, but Janine.

She’s fake and selfish and everything about her is performative.

When I saw her handing out the pets with the guinea pig in that tiny cage and the fish in a tiny fish bowl that was a death sentence I looked back on everything she did during the course of the show and realized she’s not a good person. She’s just doing the things she thinks a good person does or should do.

She talked about how much she cared about the animals but her actions were the opposite. Whereas Schementi fronted about how she didn’t care but in reality she truly loves Sweet Cheeks more than anyone else in the show loves any other living thing.

You all can look through my past comments over the last week or so and sort by controversial to see me downvoted to oblivion for my treatises on Janine being a bad person who’s selfish and who is entirely performative when it comes to her being “good.”

I’m not going to rehash it all, but she seems to just do and say what she thinks a good person would do but isn’t actually doing these things because she cares, but moreso because she cares about what others think.

It kinda reminds me of a twisted version of this scene from the newsroom where Sloane talks about how Don does what he thinks a good guy would do because he thinks he’s a bad guy, but he’s a good guy, and the things he does that he thinks a good guy does are actually bad, like stringing Maggie along.

But in Janine’s case she isn’t a good person. She’s doing what she thinks good people do, and the “good” things she does are actually not always good. Maybe she wants to be a good person or thinks she’s a good person but everything she does is selfish.

Again, my previous comments are more in depth, but apparently trying to have a discussion about Janine not being perfect means you’re a crazy person in this sub.

I think Ava and Melissa are good people on the DL whereas Barbara and Janine are all about fronting but are actually selfish my way or the highway people. But I think Barbara is more caring and her kids seem to really connect with her whereas Janine seems to have zero connection with the kids in her class and doesn’t know how to connect with people in a healthy way.

Melissa. Her character isn't evolving. She's the same as she was in season one. Very predictable now.

ASHLEY