The BEST episodes of Rita
Every episode of Rita ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Rita!
Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, public school teacher Rita fares less well with adults in this comedy-drama from Denmark.
#1 - The Teacher
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 2/16/2012
A new student suffers socially when his parents demand a school wide ban on sugar. Meanwhile, Rita's estranged Mother wants to get back in touch
#2 - The Anarchist
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 2/23/2012
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.
#3 - The Idealist
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 2/9/2012
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
#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 - 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.
#6 - 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.
#7 - 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.
#8 - 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.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - 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.
#13 - 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.
#14 - 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.
#15 - 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.
#16 - Funhouse
Season 5 - Episode 2 - Aired 6/8/2020
Little school is close to losing a student whose parents move to Greenland, but Rita, despite Hjørdis' protests, finds an alternative solution to the problem.
#17 - The Excursion
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired 6/15/2020
The whole little school is going on an excursion to Sweden, and Rita and Hjørdis' conflict over management and rules breaks out in a light hat.
#21 - The Sea
Season 5 - Episode 7 - Aired 7/13/2020
Rita flies to Copenhagen with Rasmus, where she was desperately tried to fit into a new life, which included questions and dinner with Helle and Helena.
#22 - 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.
#23 - The She-Wolf
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 3/1/2012
Rita finds porn on Jeppe's computer and fears he'll share what she knows firsthand is a destructive relationship to sex.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.