The BEST episodes of Rita
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, public school teacher Rita fares less well with adults in this comedy-drama from Denmark.
#1 - Home
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/9/2017
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.
#2 - The Test
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 5/11/2015
Rita agrees to act as temporary headmaster in Helle's absence, and Hjordis and Uffe face an important decision regarding their relationship.
#3 - You and Me
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/18/2017
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.
#4 - The Head
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 4/27/2015
Overcome by stress, Helle asks Rita to become the school's temporary headmaster, and Hjordis's class celebrates Saint Lucy's day with style.
#5 - Weeds
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/30/2013
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.
#6 - Family
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/2/2017
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.
#7 - First Love
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/16/2013
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.
#8 - I Love You
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/9/2013
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.
#9 - Evening Classes
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 4/6/2015
To combat loneliness, Rita invites some students to her house. Meanwhile, Hjordis tries to spice up her sex life with Uffe.
#10 - Chaos
Season 5 - Episode 8 - Aired 7/20/2020
Rita asks Hjørdis to run the school without her, but when Rita discovers, that a student requires help, does she return to her call as teacher.
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Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/23/2013
Rita and Rasmus struggle to save their relationship, but an innocent meeting with a colleague has unexpected consequences.
#12 - Thaw
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/4/2017
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.
#13 - Fake News
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 6/1/2020
Rita is back - now with her own little school, which she has opened with Hjørdis. One student challenges Rita with false facts from the web and the school ends up in turmoil.
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#14 - The Hypocrite
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 3/15/2012
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.
#15 - The Garden
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/18/2013
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.
#16 - You Are What You Eat
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 8/28/2017
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.
#17 - Present/Past
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/21/2017
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.
#18 - The Basement
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 3/23/2015
Helle hires a motivational coach for the students. Meanwhile Jeppe moves in with his boyfriend, and Rita struggles with living on her own.
#19 - The Protector
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 3/8/2012
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.
#20 - Team Player
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/2/2013
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.
#21 - Childhood Streets
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/25/2017
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.
#22 - Do you speak English?
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired 6/22/2020
In Rita's English class, the eccentric Gerd shows up and insists on participating as an adult.
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#24 - True Friends
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/11/2017
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.
#25 - The Grown Up
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/2013
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.