The BEST Episodes of Rita
Every episode ever - ranked by fan votes!
Last Updated: Jul 5, 2020
Network: TV 2 (DK)
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 Oct 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.
8.69 
#2 - You and Me
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired Sep 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.
8.42 
#3 - The Test
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired May 11, 2015
Rita agrees to act as temporary headmaster in Helle's absence, and Hjordis and Uffe face an important decision regarding their relationship.
8.37 
#4 - Family
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired Oct 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.
8.32 
#5 - Thaw
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired Sep 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.
8.25 
#6 - Fake News
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired Jun 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.
8.25 
#7 - The Head
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired Apr 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.
8.23 
#8 - Weeds
Season 2 - Episode 8 - Aired Oct 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.
8.18 #9 - First Love
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired Oct 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.
8.10 
#10 - You Are What You Eat
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired Aug 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.
8.08 
#11 - Present/Past
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired Aug 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.
8.08 #12 - The Role Model
Season 2 - Episode 7 - Aired Oct 23, 2013
Rita and Rasmus struggle to save their relationship, but an innocent meeting with a colleague has unexpected consequences.
8.08 #13 - The Garden
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired Sep 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.
8.03 #14 - I Love You
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired Oct 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.
8.02 
#15 - Evening Classes
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired Apr 6, 2015
To combat loneliness, Rita invites some students to her house. Meanwhile, Hjordis tries to spice up her sex life with Uffe.
8.00 
#16 - The Hypocrite
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired Mar 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.
7.98 
#17 - Childhood Streets
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired Sep 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.
7.86 
#18 - The Basement
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired Mar 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.
7.85 
#19 - True Friends
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired Sep 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.
7.81 #20 - Team Player
Season 2 - Episode 4 - Aired Oct 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.
7.74 
#21 - The Protector
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired Mar 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.
7.73 
#22 - Sponsor A Child
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired Mar 30, 2015
A problem student goes on a destructive rampage, Hjordis makes progress with her second graders, and a man from Rita's past shows up.
7.73 #23 - The Grown Up
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired Sep 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.
7.67 
#24 - The Excursion
Season 5 - Episode 3 - Aired Jun 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.
7.67 
#25 - Do you speak English?
Season 5 - Episode 4 - Aired Jun 22, 2020
In Rita's English class, the eccentric Gerd shows up and insists on participating as an adult.
7.67