Review of A Teacher

To reviewers calling this a love story, you missed the point completely. She even says as much multiple times in the final episodes. She USED the kid to "blow up her marriage" that she didn't know how to end any other way. She saw the kid had a crush on her and took advantage of him! She never loved him. She created the situations in which his crush would bloom by taking him to her alma mater campus (and to a frat party!), and tutoring him, which BTW, I'm pretty sure she never got that cleared by the school even though in the first episode she said she would have to ... even on the weekend away for his 18th birthday (which BTW means he was 17 while she was his 30-year old teacher when they started their affair) you can see how conflicted she is when he says that he loves her and she's happy to be screwing someone other than her husband. Recall she's an emotionally-immature character who was stunted by early childhood trauma (losing her mother) and an alcoholic father, and she married the first man she ever slept with, which doesn't bode well that it was necessarily love. Finally in the last episode she has a chance to acknowledge all of this and grant him some sort of apology, but he calls her out on how she's complaining about how this ruined HER life! She's still too self-centered and immature to apologize like an adult. It took him years to figure out what she did to him. The last line where he walks out on her is perfect.

This is a show about how a female teacher misuses her authority to emotionally abuse a young man, and we as a society don't know whether to high-five him for it or put her in jail (I didn't understand this part since the age of consent in TX is 17 ... it made more sense to me that she would just lose her job for the ethics of it). It has little to do with the fact there is 13 years age difference between the characters, but because she is his teacher and she abused the trust of everyone involved: the school, his parents and-most importantly-her student.