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Let Janine Have This

We all know Abbott Elementary’s romantic endgame. In the meantime, this could be a love triangle made in sitcom heaven.

I mean a love triangle in which you could make a case for the seeming third wheel being the actually correct romantic pairing: Monica, Chandler, and Richard; Ross, Rachel, and Julie; Joey, Dawson, and Pacey; Carrie, Big, and Aidan. Abbott has made good use out of series newcomer Josh Segarra, whose Manny zeroes in on Janine’s professional strengths, offers her a fellowship, and then keeps things collegial during their work together in the Philadelphia school district. Manny’s a grown-up with a buoyant golden retriever personality, pride in where he’s come from and where he’s going, and an arboreal body made for wearing ironically cool grandpa clothes and casually leaning on doorframes.

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