Iglesias,” arriving three months after the contentious cancellation of “One Day at a Time,” the comedian Gabriel Iglesias will inevitably be seen as picking up the cause of Latino representation on Netflix. That’s a lot of pressure for someone who’s really just trying to remake “Welcome Back, Kotter.”Like Gabriel Kaplan’s Gabe Kotter, Iglesias’s Gabe Iglesias is a dedicated public-school teacher assigned to a class of comic underachievers. The Brooklyn high school in “Kotter” was based on Kaplan’s alma mater, New Utrecht High; the Long Beach, Calif., school in “Mr. Mr. Iglesias even has his own Horshack, an excitable boy named Mikey Gutierrez (Fabrizio Guido), who at one point throws in an “Ooh, ooh” when asking a question. Iglesias,” whose 10 episodes hit Netflix on Friday, is every bit the conventional multicamera sitcom that “Kotter” was.

Source: New York Times June 21, 2019 06:56 UTC