THE TEACHER S2 - sept 9 mon to thur ch 5 9pm. TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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The 2022 miniseries starred Sheridan Smith (https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a60470157/sheridan-smith-opening-night-musical-close-early/) as a teacher accused of having sex with her 15-year-old pupil, but when it comes back on Monday, September 9, it'll have a new lead.

S1

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The new season will follow Dani Osborne, a teacher played by former EastEnders (https://www.digitalspy.com/soaps/eastenders/)
star Kara Tointon. She gets wrapped up in a murder conspiracy, one that threatens her marriage as well as her job.

he official synopsis reads (https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/a61911518/bbc-kin-fool-me-once-emmett-j-scanlan-the-teacher/): "The Teacher II follows the story of Dani, a teacher who loves her job. She's a real mentor and inspiration to her students, but what she lacks is a properly functioning marriage with real intimacy and mutual desire.

"This leads her into an impulsive affair with a fellow colleague that at first answers all her needs, but soon spirals out of control. When a pupil goes missing on a school trip, Dani rightly blames herself for being too easily distracted.

When things start to take a sinister turn, she is forced to lie and quickly finds her life falling to pieces. She risks everything to right the wrongs that she has, in part, been responsible for."

Now I know we all thought omfg why didn’t she clear her name and was a bit cheesy but I will be watching

There’s another one on next week with Jo Joyner 😂There must be some sort of factory churning them out!

I don't think it was explained, I thought Sienna or maybe Tim, he sold he knew something was happening for months but then later it was implied dani and Jimmy were a new thing, it was all over the place

I also thought it was lazy writing with the characteristics of the group of four friends. Almost like they had a tick list - vulnerable, popular, black and gay.

Yes that was a bit odd as Tim said he knew it had been going on for months with Jimmy and Dani didn't deny it but Jimmy said to Dani he used her for a distraction at the outdoor centre and that he loved Sienna.

Why 'Tim' and 'Jimmy'? What silly names and too easy to mix up imo. And again, why does Scanlan have such a bouffant hair do, it does him no favours at all.

Is that wives

I've did a thread for that the other day

Thought I'd give it a go but its absolute shite! I've just finished episode 2

It felt like Dani was trying to blame everyone but herself. He was in her care, he was her responsibility and the fact that she went off for a shag and a pupil got murdered is on her. But she's off playing detective, speaking to pupils and the victim's mother even though she's under arrest and suspended because it happened in her care.

It's a waste of Emmett's talent. In fact none of them are very good in it, the best so far is Zac's mother. Will Mellor plays the exact same person every time.

Can I just say, while I think the character of Dani has no place in teaching, I absolutely loved her fluffy grey cardigan! Does anyone know where I can find out where it came from please?!

OMG. I thought her fluffy cardigan was awful 😣.

I guess we have different taste in clothes!

DH and I were discussing the knife this morning . Was it literally completely irrelevant to the plot???

Jimmy said he presumed Zac was going to use the knife on him to protect Sienna. Or perhaps Zac was protecting himself from Jimmy as Jimmy was aware Zac knew about him and Sienna.

Thank you for mentioning this. I found the explanations around the knife throughly confusing tbh. Plus, it looks like it wasn't even used in the end!

Who put Zac on the canoe and launched him out on the water? Was that Sienna too?

Was Zac going to kill Matt? And if so, what for?

If she did, it wouldn’t have been an easy job and would have taken a while. You’d think even dragging his body then a canoe to the water would have taken a while with her being so small. Yet none of the other kids mentioned her disappearance from the group

Yeah but it didn't get used . It's like the opposite of Chekhov's Gun! C5's knife.

And she'd be wet!!

Am I the only one who thinks the teacher, Kara is a crap actress. I cringe every programme she’s on.

@Shityshitybangbang just opened thread to comment that the standard of acting across the board is very bad.

Ch5 dramas are known to be a bit cheesy and naff

But we love to watch

They have their favs

Sally Lindsey is in lots of ch5 stuff

Plus a couple with Kara

And of course Sheridan smith

But he's so good at being a baddy!

I do! It’s not a popular opinion, but I think she speaks as if she’s been lobotomised and has very little range.

I think she sounds very Nasally,and speaks as though she has a bad cold .

So many holes in this!!
Police search 2 minutes " right that's us done"
Who took the picture??
Why was Dani suspended but Jimmy free to be in school and carry on teaching
One minute Dani hates Tim and wants to leave, then finds out he might have murdered a kid and it's all chatting and hugging.
Why wasn't Sienna wet and how did she bash Zac and lug him into the lake when she was with her friends the whole time?
Why didn't Dani just go to the police 👮‍♀️once she realised Jimmy's ceiling was the same as Sienna's drawing ( obvs so she could have a confrontation with Jimmy but come on , really??)
I could go on but I've already wasted 4 hours of my life watching it 😂

The confrontation scenes always annoy me. They make it so bleeding obvious that they are trying to get away quickly, instead of just being breezy

I have so many opinions on this so waiting for it to finish so I can comment!