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Rita

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

  1. Watch The Idealist. Episode 1 of Season 1.

    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. Watch The Teacher. Episode 2 of Season 1.

    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. Watch The Anarchist. Episode 3 of Season 1.

    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. Watch The Whore. Episode 4 of Season 1.

    Rita finds porn on Jeppe's computer and fears he'll share what she knows firsthand is a destructive relationship to sex.

  5. Watch The Protector. Episode 5 of Season 1.

    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. Watch The Hypocrite. Episode 6 of Season 1.

    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. Watch The Princess. Episode 7 of Season 1.

    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. Watch The Mother. Episode 8 of Season 1.

    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.

  1. Watch The Grown Up. Episode 1 of Season 2.

    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. Watch The Garden. Episode 2 of Season 2.

    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. Watch And Baby Makes Three. Episode 3 of Season 2.

    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. Watch Team Player. Episode 4 of Season 2.

    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. Watch I Love You. Episode 5 of Season 2.

    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. Watch First Love. Episode 6 of Season 2.

    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. Watch The Role Model. Episode 7 of Season 2.

    Rita and Rasmus struggle to save their relationship, but an innocent meeting with a colleague has unexpected consequences.

  8. Watch Weeds. Episode 8 of Season 2.

    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.

  1. Watch The Candidate. Episode 1 of Season 3.

    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. Watch The Basement. Episode 2 of Season 3.

    Helle hires a motivational coach for the students. Meanwhile, Jeppe moves in with his boyfriend, and Rita struggles with living on her own.

  3. Watch The Sponsor Kid. Episode 3 of Season 3.

    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. Watch Evening Classes. Episode 4 of Season 3.

    To combat loneliness, Rita invites some students to her house. Meanwhile, Hjørdis tries to spice up her sex life with Uffe.

  5. Watch Lice. Episode 5 of Season 3.

    Rita's fourth graders come down with head lice, and she decides to delouse them herself. Meanwhile, Helle faces evaluation by her peers.

  6. Watch Free Fall. Episode 6 of Season 3.

    Rita tries to keep the police in the dark when Hjørdis decides on the perfect item to bury in a time capsule: marijuana.

  7. Watch The Leader. Episode 7 of Season 3.

    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. Watch The Test. Episode 8 of Season 3.

    Rita agrees to act as temporary headmaster in Helle's absence, and Hjørdis and Uffe face an important decision regarding their relationship.

  1. Watch Past/Present. Episode 1 of Season 4.

    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. Watch You Are What You Eat. Episode 2 of Season 4.

    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. Watch Sudden Thaw. Episode 3 of Season 4.

    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. Watch True Friends. Episode 4 of Season 4.

    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. Watch You and I. Episode 5 of Season 4.

    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. Watch Childhood Street. Episode 6 of Season 4.

    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. Watch Family. Episode 7 of Season 4.

    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. Watch Home. Episode 8 of Season 4.

    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.

  1. Watch Fake News. Episode 1 of Season 5.

    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. Watch Hullabaloo House. Episode 2 of Season 5.

    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. Watch The Outing. Episode 3 of Season 5.

    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. Watch Do You Speak English?. Episode 4 of Season 5.

    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. Watch Hot Flash. Episode 5 of Season 5.

    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. Watch Boundaries. Episode 6 of Season 5.

    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. Watch The Lake. Episode 7 of Season 5.

    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. Watch Chaos. Episode 8 of Season 5.

    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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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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