Metadata description for "English Teacher" (2024 TV series) sucks

https://watch.plex.tv/show/english-teacher

Your description is:

It follows Evan, a gay high school English teacher, and his coworkers as they try to balance the demands of the students and their parents.

Looks like this is stolen from IMDB directly. It’s bad on several levels. The pronoun “it” refers to nothing (presumably to the show, which is not mentioned in the sentence). The character is in fact gay, but it’s awkward in terms of prose to add it as an adjective like an ornament on a Christmas tree. He’s a high school teacher and he’s gay. He’s not "a gay high school teacher. The pronoun “they” is ambiguous as to whether the object reference is “the students” or “Evan and his coworkers”.

TheMovieDB and TheTVDB have a slightly different version of clearly the same source which is better:

A high school teacher in Austin tries to balance the competing demands of the students and their parents in a world where the rules seem to change every day.

It’s a bit generic. The definite article “the” referring to the students is awkward and it’s still a very bland and nonspecific description.

This show just premiered last night.

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