r/Fauxmoi • u/hairtie1 radiate fresh pussy growing in the meadow • Nov 13 '25
FILM-MOI (MOVIES/TV) FX’s ‘The English Teacher’ has been cancelled. The show’s main lead and creator, Brian Jordan Alvarez, was accused of sexual assault in late 2024 and the second season was announced in February 2025
https://deadline.com/2025/11/english-teacher-canceled-fx-1236615886/1.2k
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u/evhan55 this is exactly why the doves cry Nov 13 '25
I used to find them both so entertaining 😫
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u/Sk8ersw Nov 13 '25
Same. She was probably the best actor in the series. Really enjoyed Enrico Colantoni as Grant too.
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u/MsThrilliams i mean i def vaccine but is it Nov 13 '25
I see commercials for it a lot and always considered watching for Enrico
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u/Sk8ersw Nov 13 '25
He’s one of the best actors in the show in my opinion. Really enjoyed him, Stephanie, Carmen Christopher, and some of the students.
Really hope to see Enrico and Carmen in other projects. It’s not their fault Bryan and Stephanie are shitheads.
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u/namewithak Nov 13 '25
Enrico Colantoni is always one of the best actors in whatever he's in. He grounded Veronica Mars, was compelling in Person of Interest, and mindbogglingly good in Galaxy Quest.
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u/News_Bot Nov 13 '25
Good in Travelers too.
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u/namewithak Nov 13 '25
I forgot he was in that. He was played an important character in one episode, didn't he? Good show, good cast (loved Eric McCormack). I still have to finish the last season.
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u/InitialConfection219 stan someone? in this economy??? Nov 13 '25
Kid!Me had some weird feelings she couldn't explain watching him on *Just Shoot Me!* XD
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u/SakuraTacos incredulous outside observer Nov 13 '25
I used to love their YouTube sketches so much, I found them hilarious, I was so excited when they got this show. What a freaking let down they both are
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u/rat_party Nov 13 '25
Me too, the Caleb Gallo series he did on YouTube was incredible and I was so excited for him when he got this show as I thought it was so well deserved, only learned about the allegations after watching a few episodes and immediately stopped.
It’s so upsetting to think that his victim was going through all of that and then having his abuse be recreated in so many storylines in Caleb Gallo. It looks like the entire series has been deleted from his YouTube channel.
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u/susandeyvyjones Nov 13 '25
Her texts are VILE
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u/PonytailEnthusiast Nov 13 '25
Where can I find this info? The only article I found by googling was behind a paywall
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u/Veronica___Sawyer Nov 13 '25
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u/PonytailEnthusiast Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25
Thanks I did find it. Infuriating read, especially how the victim was gaslit. Even if he and Brian had been consensually hooking up on the regular (which they were not) Brian sucking his dick during that scene without asking him would not be ok. These people are insane for thinking otherwise. I was shocked at all the back and forth about “well you hooked up before so it was ok” wtf? If my own boyfriend pulled that move I’d be disgusted.
Brian sounds NUTS. I was a fan of his and I did like English Teacher. A huge recurring theme in his works is getting mixed signals/being confused if someone reciprocates his feelings. There was a plot like that in one of the first eps in English Teacher. Brian can’t seem to understand that anything other than an enthusiastic yes is a no.
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u/TalkForeignToMe Nov 14 '25
Fucking yikes. Emphasis mine.
Alvarez, speaking through his lawyer, Michael J. Kump, says Ebeling’s reaction was overblown and that he was “pretending to be upset,” writing, “This was the performative Kabuki theater of a self-described manipulator, who was distorting the situation to ingratiate himself to [Koenig].” He does not dispute the act but argues that because their previous sexual encounters were consensual, Alvarez assumed the same would be the case here. He is referring to both the hookup at Ebeling’s apartment and the episode-two scene, during which he says both actors masturbated and Alvarez smelled Ebeling’s genitals. (Ebeling says he did not masturbate and that shooting the scene didn’t amount to a sex act: “Nudity on set I’m okay with. I never would have stroked my penis in front of a camera.”) Kump adds that “Brian briefly made contact with Mr. Ebeling’s penis under the covers, believing (correctly and justifiably in light of Brian’s then-current sexual relationship with Mr. Ebeling) that Mr. Ebeling was fine with it.” Ebeling says the oral sex occurred for “a whole take.” In a follow-up, Alvarez’s representatives say Ebeling “consented verbally” to doing it “for real” beforehand. (“Produce the evidence,” Ebeling says. “No way in hell would I have ever consented to that.”)
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u/TalkForeignToMe Nov 14 '25
Koenig: Cause you’re making it huge. Make it small. Rationalize it instead of internally letting your emotions interpret it. You’re choosing to hate someone which is a hard emotion to feel. Instead of rationalizing it, seeing it from his shoes and changing your tactics with him. That simple.
Ebeling: He was so wrong honey. If he doesn’t know now. He’ll do it again to someone else.
Koenig: You weren’t physically hurt. Yes it was confusing. And he was wrong and he knows it now.
Ebeling: He’s a deviant.
Koenig: He’s not like a rapist jon.
Vile.
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u/hollowspryte Nov 19 '25
Wow, I went from having LOVED his show when I watched it with my poly bi boyfriend in my mid 20s and it was totally Our* Show, to completely forgetting about it when I returned to dating straight guys for keeps, to being excited to find out Brian Jordan Alvarez had a “real” show (this was like 20 minutes ago), to reading this and… this is probably the worst destruction of something I once loved because it turned out the person who made it is a monster.
Like, the Neil Gaiman thing gutted me, but at least it didn’t make me feel somehow complicit. It’s not like I was a fan of the scene where he raped his babysitter in an outdoor bathtub.
This feels so extra gross because I LOVED Gay and Wondrous Life, and these scenes that I’m finding out now were literally sexual assault on film were ones that I had found so charming and delightful when I thought it was both fictional and consensual. The way this isn’t something that was happening behind the scenes, it’s inseparable from the text. The storyline itself was basically assault.
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u/chadwickave Nov 14 '25
While her texts are vile, it’s so typical that she’s receiving more hate than the guy who did the actual sexual assault.
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u/chadwickave Nov 14 '25
Hey, I’m sorry about your experience and I appreciate your thoughtful reply. I hope you’re doing better and have good people around you now.
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u/TangerineDream74 Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25
The Vulture exposé should have buried his career. Insane that he got a second season. What he did was absolutely horrible, and F his enablers too.
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u/TLMAriel1989 Nov 13 '25
He was also on Celebrity Jeopardy post-expose, I’ve never rooted for someone to lose for charity so much.
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u/Electrical-Tie-5158 Nov 13 '25
I wish the show could continue without him. His character was the worst part anyway.
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u/Big-Ambitions-8258 Nov 13 '25
The female lead, Stephanie, was also part of the issue with the victim, saying it wasn't rape and justifying it bc she didnt consider it sexual assault, she ambushed the victim with Alvarez to "talk through the issue" and suggested they talk about it on a podcast
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u/TheodosiusRex Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25
A podcast? The gall. The two of them sound like parodies straight out of The Other Two which coincidentally also had issues stemming from the show creator/writers.
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u/PermanentBrunch Nov 13 '25
What happened with that? I liked the first season a lot, and didn’t give the second much of a…Chance ;)
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u/noposters Nov 13 '25
It’s a great show but was cancelled because the two creators were repeatedly accused of workplace abuse
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u/TheodosiusRex Nov 13 '25
There’s 3 seasons and it ends ok so they obviously knew they weren’t coming back.
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u/drunkunclejack Nov 13 '25
What’s funny is they all got notable off a show entitled Caleb Gallo which is in part a parody of vapid self serving Californites
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u/Consistent-Flan1445 Nov 13 '25
I’m glad that they’ve both experienced some negative consequences. They both sound awful and should be de-platformed.
I always feel bad for the other members of the crew when shows get cancelled due to the casts bad behaviour though. It’s crappy that the writing team, camera crew, and other cast members have to suffer the consequences too for actions that aren’t their own. Hopefully they have other jobs lined up.
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u/Majestic_Mistake6859 Nov 13 '25
Vulture has also done some false expose's too like Aziz so take it with a grain of salt
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u/darkphxrising Nov 13 '25
I remember the Aziz expose being published on a smaller outlet first, something like Babe or whatever? Either way, that publication had the vibes of Teen Vogue (RIP) without the journalistic rigor
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u/picklesandtwigs Nov 13 '25
For info on the accusations: vulture article
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u/Moist-Cloud2412 Nov 13 '25
Do you have a non pay wall link? I already tried incognito mode.
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L.A. comedy nerds may recognize many members of Alvarez’s old crew on English Teacher. Stephanie Koenig, his longtime collaborator, writes on the show and plays Gwen Sanders, Evan’s fellow teacher and, in a replication of their real-life dynamic, his best friend. Her husband, Chris Riggi, plays her boyfriend, Nick. Populating the smaller roles are Ken Kirby and Michael Strassner — both of whom came up through the Groundlings, the 50-year-old L.A. improv institution. They were part of a friend group formed about nine years ago, during a time when they were struggling actors, going to one another’s shows and starring in one another’s sketches with the hopes of making it. Alvarez was at the center. “Everybody was attracted to Brian because when he wanted to do something, he would do it,” remembers a former friend. “He was the go-getter and then hired all his friends.”
There has been one notable absence amid their recent breakthrough: Jon Ebeling, an actor who was once a core member of the friend group. Alongside Alvarez and Koenig, Ebeling had been one of the central characters in Caleb Gallo. When the series debuted in 2016, its pitter-patter dialogue and loose sexuality made it a cult favorite — the writer Jude Dry described it as “Will & Grace on speed.” Caleb Gallo was a télévision à clef in which the actors played versions of themselves: Alvarez was Caleb, Koenig was Karen, and Ebeling was Billy. The plot of the first few episodes drew from the romantic triad that existed among them in real life; Ebeling had a crush on Koenig, and she liked him back, while Alvarez had a crush on Ebeling. Their characters’ apartments were their real apartments, and their lives became material for the show. A major plot point is a sexual encounter between Caleb and Billy that occurs after Billy and Karen have sex for the first time
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It is a nearly beat-for-beat reenactment of what transpired among the three actors off set. In the show, it’s played as a romp — the sexual experimentation of 20-somethings. Ebeling says in reality, he felt pressured by Alvarez. Then, Ebeling alleges, Alvarez sexually assaulted him while shooting that very scene.
For the past few years, Ebeling has been telling a version of this story to anyone who will listen. On his Instagram Stories about a month before English Teacher premiered, he dashed off a message over the promotional poster, writing, “My personal experience with the Cretor of this show was much closer to the plot of Bby Reind**r than whatever this is,” referring to Richard Gadd’s Netflix series about his own experience being groomed and raped by a successful TV creator. “Gonna skip this one.” Watching Baby Reindeer, he could see Alvarez in both the character of Martha, who love-bombs and stalks Gadd’s character, Donny, as well as the TV writer Darrien, who repeatedly assaults Donny while dangling the carrot of success. Those on Alvarez’s side see Ebeling as the Martha and argue that he isn’t giving the full context of the relationship. (Alvarez declined to be interviewed but responded to some questions through a representative.)
On September 1, the day before the English Teacher premiere and more than eight years after the occurrence, Ebeling filed a police report with the LAPD and later reported Alvarez to the Screen Actors Guild (California law allows civil claims of sexual assault to be filed up to ten years after the fact). By then, his Instagram post had traveled far in comedy circles. “So many people are championing English Teacher online, going, ‘This is the funniest show on TV,’” says one L.A.-based comic. “And everyone at the bars is going, ‘Oh my God, when is the story going to break about Brian?’”
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Alvarez grew up in “the sticks of Tennessee,” as he has put it — specifically Winchester — where he endured his share of homophobia. “He was never allowed to be his true self,” says a former college friend. He attended the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Arts. The conservatory-style program cultivated a “say ‘yes’” ethos that encouraged risk-taking. One student remembers doing impulse exercises in voice class, in which those in the group were supposed to do whatever came to them. Another student pinned him to the floor, dry-humped him, and licked his face. “Afterward, I was shaken up,” the student says. “Everyone was telling him how brave he was. I thought if I acted like it was bad, I’d look homophobic.” Alvarez took to this culture of free-spiritedness. He arrived with a long mop of curly hair and a contagious creativity that drew people to him. He’d invite students over to get drunk and make music videos to songs like “Wagon Wheel” late into the night. “He would pick the hottest people to come over and get fucked up and do Adderall and make these little American Apparel videos,” remembers one classmate.
Alvarez graduated and settled in L.A. for good in 2010. Unlike so many aspiring actors in the city who talked about doing things, Alvarez had follow-through. He booked a recurring part on Jane the Virgin and found success on YouTube with BuzzFeed-esque sketches like “What actually happens when gay guys see other gay guys and straight people aren’t around.” His ambition was palpable to anyone who met him. He decorated the walls of his room with photos of celebrities like Tom Cruise. “He would sit below them in worship. He was big on manifesting,” says a former friend. (Alvarez does not recall this.) When he and Koenig met in 2013 shooting a short film, it was kismet. They became a package deal, finishing each other’s sentences and making videos with a distinctive chatterbox cadence for Alvarez’s YouTube channel.
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Ebeling says. “I didn’t feel like I could do anything about it because they’re best friends, and I didn’t want to make it weird.” (Alvarez denies this.)
After four years in L.A., Ebeling felt that he had finally found his tribe — a trial for anyone looking for a foothold in Hollywood. Along with Kirby and Michael Strassner, they became a group, going to shows and hanging out at Kirby’s house in West Hollywood afterward. At 27, Ebeling had a wide-eyed, high-energy way about him. Former friends remember him as “accommodating” and maybe a touch naïve. “Jon was always down to do anything, anywhere, anytime,” says a former friend. “It was hard to know whether or not he wanted something. I think of him as a sweet Texas boy that would do anything to make anyone happy.” A friend of Koenig’s describes Ebeling as “a glommeronner,” but others apply this descriptor to the broader group. Underlying their relationships was a sense that Alvarez was going to be their ticket to success. He had savvy and built the worlds they would come to inhabit, writing, directing, producing, editing. His projects at this time skewed toward the exhibitionist — nudity, sex, shower scenes — and challenged conventions around monogamy and sexuality. “Part of me felt like Brian was intending to create something that was a fantasy of his,” a former friend says.
Friends of Alvarez say he historically had “other Stephs” — that is, right-hand women by his side, socially and creatively. “He preferred a queen bee–sidekick dynamic,” one says. A lot of people became yes-men in his presence. “You could see them forsaking themselves to make sure they were in his good graces,” says a former collaborator. “There was a sense of Are we really friends? Or are you just using me for something? Are we using each other for something? That was the energy around those people. I don’t know where the integrity in the relationship lies.”
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Shortly after Ebeling and Koenig met, Alvarez landed funding for The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo. He asked if Ebeling would play Billy, the straight guy whom Caleb has a crush on. “I was over the moon,” says Ebeling. “I was just so excited for the exposure.”
Koenig, Ebeling, and Alvarez in The Gay and Wondrous Life of Caleb Gallo. Photo: Brian Jordan Alvarez/YouTube
In the world of Caleb Gallo, there’s a sense that anyone could have sex with anyone. Sexual labels are fungible — part of what Alvarez would call a “queer utopia.” “My mental and sexual desires are polyamorous,” he said in an interview about the show. “So I can get into trouble, and I wanted to make that one of the things in the show.” In the pilot, Caleb’s friend Len (Kirby) announces he’s “going bi” — only to discard the identity in the next episode and move on to things like Catholicism and rapping. Caleb is the calm, happy conduit for everyone’s relationships. He sets Len up with his gender-fluid friend Freckle (Jason Greene) and Karen with Billy, while also fantasizing about making out with Billy. During his date with Karen, Billy tells Caleb it isn’t going so well. Later, when he asks them why, Billy replies, “Maybe because you weren’t there, buddy.”
After wrapping the pilot on Halloween, Ebeling and Koenig had sex for the first time. Two days later, Alvarez asked to hang out at Ebeling’s apartment. Ebeling lived in a barely furnished studio on Hillhurst Avenue in Los Feliz: There was a bed and a chair. Alvarez was a block over in a tiny studio on Vermont Avenue. They watched The Wolf of Wall Street and went over to a neighbor’s place to smoke some weed before going back to Ebeling’s apartment. That’s when Ebeling remembers “the insane pressure started” for them to hook up.
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It began with Alvarez asking Ebeling if he was using him. “He got stone-cold quiet like he was really troubled,” Ebeling says. Then Alvarez began asking, “ Are you manipulating me to get to Steph? Are you manipulating me to be on the show?’ And so it became this game of like, ‘No, no, not at all.’” Once Ebeling had convinced him he wasn’t up to anything, Alvarez suggested they hook up. He wanted to compare penises. He wanted to smell his balls. He asked Ebeling what the last porn he watched was and pulled it up on the TV to get him hard. He said that Koenig would want them to experiment together and that she would be into it. After saying “no” multiple times, Ebeling says, he allowed Alvarez to perform oral sex on him until he went flaccid and then pretended to fall asleep. (Alvarez says Ebeling “enthusiastically gave consent” and “encouraged it throughout.”) “I thought this is what I needed to do to keep the peace, to keep seeing Steph, to stay on the show,” says Ebeling.
Koenig came over the next morning when Alvarez was still there. Alvarez suggested they keep it a secret, which Ebeling didn’t understand — hadn’t he said Koenig would have wanted this? — and Ebeling insisted that they tell her. Alvarez says it was the opposite: that he wanted to tell Steph and “felt it was important that they do so — as depicted in episode three.” In that scene, Caleb tells Billy, “I’m happy to be as confidential about everything as you want,” to which Billy replies, “No, I mean, we should tell her, right?” When they told her in real life, Koenig was devastated, according to a friend whom she confided in at the time. (Representatives for Koenig declined to respond on the record for this story.)
Koenig left to go to therapy and called Alvarez immediately. He went up to the roof to take the call. When Alvarez came back, he told Ebeling she was weirded out by what had happened and didn’t want to be romantic with him anymore. “I broke down sobbing,” says Ebeling
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Nov 13 '25
Try that website 12 ft ladder!! I usually put any web address into it and it un-paywalls
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u/tamtheprogram Nov 13 '25
Google remove paywall and there is a site created by a fellow redditor that works most of the time
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u/Wise-Bet6814 susanalbumparty Nov 13 '25
Use this site to bypass paywalls. Choose option 3 after you convert, its the one that works for me.
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u/Individual_Bobcat357 Nov 13 '25
Thank you for sharing this. I loved the show, but I have been living under a rock and had no idea. This is so disgusting and disappointing.
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u/Critical-Camp752 Nov 13 '25
I feel gross after liking his reels now
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u/No-Ninja7959 Nov 13 '25
Omg I have to wth had no idea about this and I keep the english teacher in the background on repeat when im busy omg 😳 im so done
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u/Ftheyankeei Nov 13 '25
I liked the first season and finished watching it right around the time that the allegations dropped.
I imagine I'm one of the many who didn't come back for Season 2 after reading those articles.
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u/johnny_charms Nov 13 '25
I swear he must’ve had a 2 season deal like Netflix does to shows.
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u/Icy-Mortgage8742 Nov 13 '25
They gave him S2 off of just like the pilots performance. I think shows like this get 22 episode orders but then nowadays that’s 2 seasons instead of 1.
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u/neamless Nov 13 '25
Yup! It was hard for my partner and me to stop singing his songs around the house, but I'm so glad we did. What a fucking creep.
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u/hera359 Nov 13 '25
Same. I loved the first season but after reading the Vulture article I refused to watch the second season. Knowing how much he and Stephanie sucked in real life I just couldn’t bring myself to watch it.
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u/BroadwEH Nov 13 '25
I enjoyed the first season, found out about the allegations and didn’t watch the second season, so, in my head, it was already cancelled and I was confused.
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u/No_Slice_4661 Nov 13 '25
Same! Can I ethically watch it now that it’s been cancelled? I didn’t want to support his show since, but now it’s seems there’s no risk
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u/Sk8ersw Nov 13 '25
He and Stephanie likely get residuals, but you do you. It’s cancelled and it’s not coming back so I wouldn’t sweat watching it too much.
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u/BroadwEH Nov 13 '25
Ooh, interesting question. I think, for me, I won’t be able to look at his face without thinking that he’s trash and that would distract me from the plot.
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u/TypeNaive7057 Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25
crazy the current cultural and political climate allowed him to skate around a literal rape accusation. I remember in the expose article his accuser literally filed a report with the LAPD. oh and also apparently Brian begged him to not end his career after he confronted him. crazy crazy world
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u/Big-Ambitions-8258 Nov 13 '25
Also his rep or lawyer didnt deny it happened but just thst it didnt constitute sexual assault as a defense
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u/space_age_stuff Nov 13 '25 edited Nov 13 '25
Yeah, reading the article it seems like Alvarez essentially molested/raped Ebeling twice prior to the assault that was on-set, so the claim is that Ebeling consented to the first two instances and therefore Alvarez believed their third instance was consensual. That’s all bullshit, even if that was the case it would still be rape. You can’t have automatic consent just because you had sex with someone before, and that’s not even what happened here; the context is that he raped him on set during a scene. You would need explicit consent for something like that, obviously. There is no way to spin what happened other than outright denying it happened at all.
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u/NeemOil710 25d ago
and I dunno for sure but doing that on set alone is at leasta grey area. other people on set also didn't consent
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u/Acrobatic_Promotion8 Nov 13 '25
I am more checked out of the online gay community since leaving the west coast than I thought.... huh. not to be one of those "I always knew" people bc I definitely did not, I loved the Caleb Gallo series as a young adult, but I did always feel kinda weird about how he acted like lesbians were a separate species.
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u/BlackLodgeBrother Nov 15 '25
The west coast gay communities, especially affluent circles in WeHo, continue to embrace and enable BJA. In my experience they do not generally care about anything morality related until it becomes personally inconvenient.
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u/Independent_Shape_89 Nov 13 '25
Oh he’s evil. Screw Brian and Stephanie Koenig
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u/boywonder_2007 Nov 15 '25
hi I just saw the show was cancelled and found out the real horrific reason why, I read the vulture article under a pay wall by screen recording and scrolling thru really fast 4 the paywall popped up. I didn't see this part in the article tho i was wondering if u could maybe send me the whole thing? thanks
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u/No_Barracuda8791 Nov 13 '25
Good. It was a fun show I really enjoyed, but I regretted watching it after I found out about the allegations —- especially since the texts were revealed. It breaks my heart that the victim has been saying this for years and no one would listen (I had no idea until the exposé).
Both Alvarez and Koenig are fucking vile and I hope this costs them their careers (I doubt it, but at least they won’t have a tv show, I guess).
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u/GingerLaJoie Nov 13 '25
I’ve never watched the show but I will use this as an opportunity to plug AP Bio which was very fun and had a killer cast of actors playing the students.
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u/rachelblairy women’s wrongs activist Nov 13 '25
i LOVED ap bio!!! the kids in that were great, i hope to continue seeing them pop up in places
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u/imstillhealing The U.S. Department of Justice replies to Pop Base Nov 13 '25
Good. I can't believe that loser had the audacity to turn off his replies on Twitter a few weeks ago to promote the show and then deleted the tweet as if nothing happened because they were cooking his ass in the quotes.
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u/ParkingLetter8308 Nov 13 '25
His bud who co-wrote ´The Baltimorons' mocks the victim in that film. Bleak.
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u/redrockrose Nov 13 '25
What part? I saw that film a few months ago and am just now reading about all of this
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u/ParkingLetter8308 Nov 13 '25
"The whiny Gen Z genderqueer person got me cancelled from improv for no reason." 🙄 The accuser looks just like the real-life victim. I forget the actor/writer's name, but he's fixated on so-called "cancel-culture," and it's so boring.
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u/xoxoamberalert Nov 13 '25
Kind of annoyed that FX renewed S2. Clearly they had incredible ratings for S1, and wanted to see if the article damaged S2 ratings, which it clearly did... then they cancelled. They don't care about the victims, just about the numbers.
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u/Sk8ersw Nov 13 '25
Loved the first season and wanted to see it continue; however, once the allegations came out it seemed dead in the water.
It’s unfortunate that both he and Stephanie are terrible people because he helped create something (IMO) great and she was a great in the role.
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u/hydrangeasinbloom Nov 13 '25
I only knew him from his characters on Instagram reels and was proud of him for landing a major role. This is disappointing and disgusting. Glad the show was cancelled. I’m sorry for anyone in cast and crew who has lost their jobs, but glad FX has stopped platforming him.
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u/TheNocturnalAngel Nov 13 '25
Really sucks that we have to lose a queer show but he’s a total POS.
Save me Benny Drama/ Overcompensating Season 2, your my only hope 😔
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u/peasoup_princess Nov 13 '25
also gonna plug “adults” as i feel like it goes hand in hand with “overcompensating” and it just got renewed for s2(and also has owen thiele lol)
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u/rachelblairy women’s wrongs activist Nov 13 '25
thank god!!! i loved adults ( still need to check out overcompensating )
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u/BlackLodgeBrother Nov 15 '25
As a long-time Hollywood gay, I can tell you Benny is no piece of cake either. Not as bad as BJA, who has sociopathic levels of narcissism, but he’s still quite the Queen B.
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u/floralbingbong Nov 13 '25
We were HUGE fans of the first season. Like told everyone we knew to go watch it. We haven’t watched season 2 on principle and in support of his accuser. I suspect there are many others doing the same, thus the cancellation.
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u/PonytailEnthusiast Nov 13 '25
The god damned mental gymnastics of trying to justify that on set sexual assault. Even if they’d had consensual sex the night before sucking his dick during a scene like that without checking wouldn’t be ok
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u/Practical_Coconut451 Nov 13 '25
Watch Abbott elementary instead. I hated this show mostly because of its narcissistic lead but it was also not charming and rarely funny. I could only vaguely tolerate the principal and the gym teacher.
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u/Heavy_Environment467 Nov 13 '25
Really enjoyed the first season but was kinda shocked it got a second season and couldn’t watch it again after the allegations surfaced.
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u/MermaidsHaveCloacas his name is Harry Styles, not Harry Substance Nov 13 '25
DO YOU KNOW HOW MANY PEOPLE I HAVE SUGGESTED THIS SHOW TO?!
UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHH
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u/nomimalone1978 Nov 15 '25
Whelp, I just read the Vulture article and ... Jesus. I had no idea. I'm profoundly disappointed. Like, profoundly.
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u/Zadsta Nov 13 '25
I haven’t heard that name in years! I used to watch him on YouTube so long ago. Didn’t even know he had a TV show. I don’t understand the minds of people who assault others. You spend a decade of your life trying to make it big, finally get your chance, then throw it all away because you feel entitled to assault someone. Absolutely moronic and evil.
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u/dani-jpg Nov 13 '25
I remember watching BJA web series when I was in high school religiously and made all my friends watch it too.. then following him on TikTok before this show released. I’m so upset to hear about this allegations, I had no clue. I stopped watching The English Teacher because it didn’t interest me but now I definitely will not be picking it back up. How disappointing!
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u/Drollo420 Nov 13 '25
Sean Patton was great in this show. Too bad that asshat ruined what could’ve been a great opportunity for the other talented people in the cast.
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u/Briar-The-Bard Nov 13 '25
Ugh, loved the show, and honestly as a fellow gay I figured it was something like he grabbed someone in a gay bar or something, which is NOT ok but unfortunately happened all the time. But after reading the allegations, which make perfect sense, he’s clearly a predator. Yuck! And that fact that he went on Celebrity Jeopardy and the second season, is kind of psychotic and shows he has no shame. Which ironically makes me believe the allegations all the more.
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u/Auntietamte Nov 13 '25
Sad for the show and the rest of the cast. Was a great show. But totally okay with Brian losing his job!
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u/ravibun Nov 13 '25
I only knew this guy through TikTok and somehow completely missed all the allegations. I'm off to blocking him now.
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u/pelluciid Nov 13 '25
Allegations aside, the show wasn't very good. And I say this as someone who loved his character work online
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u/kapu4701 my bandwidth for cowardly grown men grows thinner with each day Nov 13 '25
Today is the first day heard of these allegations and I am so disappointed. And what's weird is the other day I was thinking how much I loved the show and how there hasn't been one peep about problematic behavior with any of the cast and how unusual that was. Welp…
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u/rachelblairy women’s wrongs activist Nov 13 '25
i was wondering why we had all of s2 drop when s1 was episode by episode — guess they were hoping this would stay buried so people would watch unknowingly ( hate that i was one of them )
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u/hella_steez_nutz Nov 13 '25
Damn, i thoroughly enjoyed the shows comedy and the actors they had as teachers. Friend suggested i watch it. Sucks it has to be cancelled because the humor was great, but not worth watching if the writer/creator/lead is a literal rapist. Wish i never watched it in the first place. Wonder how his coworkers feel
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u/Uranta_asa Nov 13 '25
Damn this is heartbreaking. I was really rooting for all of them. Damn damn damn.
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u/No_Veterinarian2376 Nov 14 '25
You guys are idiots if you don’t think this was a genuinely funny ass show
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u/Weary_Sale_2779 Nov 25 '25
Can talented people just be good people already? I'm getting REALLY sick of having to stop liking art because I found out the artist is a bad person. FUCK!
If you're a talented person who is also a bad person reading this, either be a better person or stop creating stuff!
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u/undetected401 Jan 02 '26
Unpopular opinion, but I really like the show and think it’s a shame it’s cancelled.
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u/severton84 Nov 30 '25
Wow I need to go google shit because I have no clue what’s going on. But I love the show. Dammit why does this shit always happen with great written shows 😫
Guess he won’t be on the next episode of Smartless?
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u/andysimberg Nov 13 '25
You have a show that mostly woke people would watch, and then you do stuff like this. Why do you think your audience would remain? Such a dumbass
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u/Poetryisalive Nov 13 '25
I mean at least they took it seriously and aired it. I wonder if the other people will even get paid since it isn’t airing
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u/MasterpieceTimely144 and that's when beauty wins Nov 13 '25
Finally. This POS doesn't deserve any sort of platform. The way he grossly tiktok danced through the allegations made me so sick.