Rita
Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults.
Seasons
1. The Idealist
Air Date: 2012-02-09
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. The Teacher
Air Date: 2012-02-16
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. The Anarchist
Air Date: 2012-02-23
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. The Whore
Air Date: 2012-03-01
Rita finds porn on Jeppe's computer and fears he'll share what she knows firsthand is a destructive relationship to sex.
5. The Protector
Air Date: 2012-03-08
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. The Hypocrite
Air Date: 2012-03-15
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. The Princess
Air Date: 2012-03-22
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. The Mother
Air Date: 2012-03-29
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. The Grown Up
Air Date: 2013-09-11
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. The Garden
Air Date: 2013-09-18
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. And Baby Makes Three
Air Date: 2013-09-25
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. Team Player
Air Date: 2013-10-02
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. I Love You
Air Date: 2013-10-09
Another teacher is terrorizing 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. First Love
Air Date: 2013-10-16
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. The Role Model
Air Date: 2013-10-23
Rita and Rasmus struggle to save their relationship, but an innocent meeting with a colleague has unexpected consequences.
8. Weeds
Air Date: 2013-10-30
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. The Candidate
Air Date: 2015-03-16
Inspired by local politics, Rita holds an election in her class. Uffe gets a job at the school, but it sparks conflict with Hjordis.
2. The Basement
Air Date: 2015-03-23
Helle hires a motivational coach for the students. Meanwhile Jeppe moves in with his boyfriend, and Rita struggles with living on her own.
3. The Sponsor Kid
Air Date: 2015-03-30
A problem student goes on a destructive rampage, Hjordis makes progress with her second graders, and a man from Rita's past shows up.
4. Evening Classes
Air Date: 2015-04-06
To combat loneliness, Rita invites some students to her house. Meanwhile, Hjordis tries to spice up her sex life with Uffe.
5. Lice
Air Date: 2015-04-13
Rita's fourth graders come down with head lice, and she decides to delouse them herself. Meanwhile, Helle faces evaluation by her peers.
6. Free Fall
Air Date: 2015-04-20
Rita tries to keep the police in the dark when Hjordis decides on the perfect item to bury in a time capsule: marijuana.
7. The Leader
Air Date: 2015-04-27
Overcome by stress, Helle asks Rita to become the school's temporary headmaster, and Hjordis's class celebrates Saint Lucy's day with style.
8. The Test
Air Date: 2015-05-11
Rita agrees to act as temporary headmaster in Helle's absence, and Hjordis and Uffe face an important decision regarding their relationship.
1. Present/Past
Air Date: 2017-08-21
Rita has settled down in Molly's apartment and works in a burger bar, much to Molly's chagrin. When Molly, on behalf of Rita, sends a job application, Rita ends up with a job offer from her former primary school, which she reluctantly accepts. Hjørdis, out of concern for Rita, applies for a job at the same school, so she can be there for her.
2. You Are What You Eat
Air Date: 2017-08-28
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. Sudden Thaw
Air Date: 2017-09-04
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. True Friends
Air Date: 2017-09-18
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. You and I
Air Date: 2017-09-19
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. Childhood Street
Air Date: 2017-09-20
To try to save the school from closure, the staff organizes a fundraiser, including a play by Hjørdis' class with Allan in the lead role.
7. Family
Air Date: 2017-09-21
Bjørne 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. Home
Air Date: 2017-09-22
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. Fake News
Air Date: 2020-06-01
A young Holocaust denier creates a scare at Hjordis and Rita's school. Helle asks Rita to help Rasmus accept a hard truth. Uffe meets a kindred spirit.
2. Hullabaloo House
Air Date: 2020-06-08
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. The Outing
Air Date: 2020-06-15
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. Do You Speak English?
Air Date: 2020-06-22
When an odd new student suddenly pops up in class, Rita gets a moneymaking idea. Jeppe goes on a Tinder date. Attraction grows between Rasmus and Rita.
5. Hot Flash
Air Date: 2020-06-29
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. Boundaries
Air Date: 2020-07-06
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. The Lake
Air Date: 2020-07-13
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. Chaos
Air Date: 2020-07-20
Jeppe learns that 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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Rating
7.5/10
Release Date
2012-02-09
Episodes
40 (5 seasons)
Status
Ended
Cast
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Production Companies
Faroe Film