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A Professor (2021)

Comedy · Drama

Based on the Catalan format Merlí by Hector Lozano, produced by Veranda for TV3 Lagardère Studios Distribution. Dante Balestra is a philosophy teacher who, after many years away, returns to Rome to care for his son Simone. Charming and unconventional, the teacher takes a class at the Leonardo Da Vinci High School, where he applies his unconventional teaching methods and develops a very special relationship with his students, including Simone. But his approach quickly leads to his personal and professional lives becoming confused, and the return from the past of Anita, a former flame of his and now the mother of Manuel, the class "black sheep," makes things even more complicated.

IMDb rating
7.6 (920 votes)
Episode average
7.8 +0.2 vs IMDb
Seasons
3
Language
IT
Type
TV series

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Ratings refreshed Oct 3, 2026 · 3 seasons indexed

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Seasons

Season 1 (2021)

8.48 avg 12 episodes 8.2 → 8.6 55 min avg

Ep 1: 8.2 · 60 votesEp 2: 8.2 · 45 votesEp 3: 8.1 · 45 votesEp 4: 8.5 · 43 votesEp 5: 8.5 · 41 votesEp 6: 8.7 · 44 votesEp 7: 8.5 · 41 votesEp 8: 8.6 · 41 votesEp 9: 8.6 · 38 votesEp 10: 8.6 · 40 votesEp 11: 8.7 · 41 votesEp 12: 8.6 · 37 votes
Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
11. Socrate8.260
22. Roland Barthes8.245
33. Kant8.145
44. Platone8.543
55. Aristotele8.541
66. Giordano Bruno8.744
77. Michel Foucault8.541
88. Guy Debord8.641
99. Stuart Mill8.638
1010. Schopenhauer8.640
1111. Rousseau8.741
1212. Nietzsche8.637

Season 2 (2023)

7.96 avg 12 episodes 7.8 → 8.2 55 min avg

Ep 1: 7.8 · 30 votesEp 2: 8.1 · 28 votesEp 3: 7.8 · 27 votesEp 4: 7.9 · 27 votesEp 5: 8.0 · 26 votesEp 6: 7.9 · 26 votesEp 7: 8.1 · 26 votesEp 8: 8.1 · 26 votesEp 9: 7.8 · 26 votesEp 10: 8.0 · 26 votesEp 11: 7.8 · 28 votesEp 12: 8.2 · 32 votes
Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Eraclito tutto scorre7.830
2Bergson: Il tempo8.128
3Heidegger: L'esistenza7.827
4David Hume: La bellezza7.927
5Montaigne: Chi siamo8.026
6Thoreau: Un pianeta da salvare7.926
7Freud: I Padri8.126
8Kierkegaard: Che ci faccio qui?8.126
9Leibniz: Rimorsi e Rimpianti7.826
10Orazio: Carpe Diem8.026
11Sartre: la libertà di scelta7.828
12Epicuro: tra vita e morte8.232

Season 3 (2025)

6.98 avg 12 episodes 6.8 → 6.9 53 min avg

Ep 1: 6.8 · 19 votesEp 2: 7.1 · 17 votesEp 3: 7.0 · 18 votesEp 4: 6.6 · 18 votesEp 5: 7.2 · 17 votesEp 6: 6.9 · 20 votesEp 7: 6.9 · 18 votesEp 8: 7.1 · 16 votesEp 9: 6.8 · 17 votesEp 10: 7.0 · 17 votesEp 11: 7.4 · 18 votesEp 12: 6.9 · 23 votes
Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#TitleRatingVotes
1Shakespeare e la maturità6.819
2Gorgia e il caso7.117
3Wittgenstein: vero e falso7.018
4Popper: gli errori6.618
5María Zambrano: la meraviglia7.217
6Leopardi e le illusioni6.920
7San Benedetto: ora et labora6.918
8Kollontaj e l'eros alato7.116
9Hawking: il mistero dell'universo6.817
10Arendt: la colpa e il perdono7.017
11Buddha: la rinascita7.418
12La maturità6.923
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