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How ‘English Teacher’ Star Brian Jordan Alvarez Made the Best New TV Show of the Year

SCHOOL’S OUT

Creator and star of the critically hailed FX comedy series, Brian Jordan Alvarez, dishes on how the show about a neurotic, well-meaning gay high school teacher in Texas came to be.

Kevin Fallon
Kevin Fallon 

Senior Editor, Obsessed

Brian Jordan Alvarez as Evan Marquez in 'English Teacher' Season 1
Photo Illustration by Victoria Sunday/The Daily Beast/FX
Kevin Fallon

Kevin Fallon

Senior Editor, Obsessed

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