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PLUS: Idris Elba seems rejuvenated on Hijack after a disappointing end to Luther.

The Bear is one of TV’s best shows about education
"TV has never done the classroom terribly well," says Phillip Maciak. "For all the vaunted—even inaccurate!—specificity contemporary television has b…