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The Best Episodes of Rita

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The Best Episodes of Rita

Independent, outspoken and adored by her students, private school teacher Rita fares less well with adults.

Seasons5

  1. Background image for The Lake
    8.5/10(2 votes)

    #1 - The Lake

    S5:E7

    Rita struggles to process her overwhelming feelings of guilt. Ole reveals to Jeppe that he's met someone else - whom his grandmother approves of.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Unknown
  2. Background image for Home
    8.3/10(3 votes)

    #2 - Home

    S4:E8

    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.

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  3. Background image for The Role Model
    8.1/10(139 votes)

    #3 - The Role Model

    S2:E7

    Rita and Rasmus struggle to save their relationship, but an innocent meeting with a colleague has unexpected consequences.

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    8.0/10(135 votes)

    #4 - First Love

    S2:E6

    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.

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  5. Background image for You Are What You Eat
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #5 - You Are What You Eat

    S4:E2

    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.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Unknown
  6. Background image for You and I
    8.0/10(3 votes)

    #6 - You and I

    S4:E5

    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.

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    Director:Natasha Arthy
    Writer:Ina Bruhn
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  8. Background image for Fake News
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #7 - Fake News

    S5:E1

    A young Holocaust denier creates a scare at Hjordis and Rita's school. Helle asks Rita to help Rasmus accept a hard truth. Uffe meets a kindred spirit.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Unknown
  9. Background image for Hullabaloo House
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #8 - Hullabaloo House

    S5:E2

    Rita tries to stop a shy student's parents from uprooting him to move to Greenland. Rasmus meets someone on Tinder. Hjørdis helps a student face a fear.

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  10. Background image for The Outing
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #9 - The Outing

    S5:E3

    During a field trip to Sweden, Rita rubs the local townsfolk the wrong way. Niels brings Jeppe back to Denmark, where Rasmus and Uffe help the two bond.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Unknown
  11. Background image for Hot Flash
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #10 - Hot Flash

    S5:E5

    Uffe tries to avoid Pil. Rita worries that one of her night-class students might be a victim of domestic abuse. Jeppe learns Ole is still in the closet.

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  12. Background image for Chaos
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #11 - Chaos

    S5:E8

    Jeppe learns that Ole is going to propose to Camilla. A new student who leads the other pupils in a school strike reminds Rita why she became a teacher.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Unknown
  13. Background image for The Grown Up
    7.9/10(158 votes)

    #12 - The Grown Up

    S2:E1

    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.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Unknown
  14. Background image for Team Player
    7.8/10(140 votes)

    #13 - Team Player

    S2:E4

    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.

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    7.8/10(143 votes)

    #14 - Weeds

    S2:E8

    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.

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  16. Background image for The Teacher
    7.7/10(6 votes)

    #15 - The Teacher

    S1:E2

    A new student suffers socially when his parents demand a schoolwide ban on sugar. Meanwhile, Rita's estranged mother wants to get back in touch.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Unknown
  17. Background image for The Garden
    7.7/10(143 votes)

    #16 - The Garden

    S2:E2

    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.

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  18. Background image for Sudden Thaw
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - Sudden Thaw

    S4:E3

    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.

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  19. Background image for Childhood Street
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #18 - Childhood Street

    S4:E6

    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.

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  20. Background image for Family
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Family

    S4:E7

    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.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Ina Bruhn
  21. Background image for The Idealist
    7.6/10(7 votes)

    #20 - The Idealist

    S1:E1

    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.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Unknown
  22. Background image for And Baby Makes Three
    7.6/10(143 votes)

    #21 - And Baby Makes Three

    S2:E3

    Rita "lends" her own grandchild to a pregnant girl in her class in an attempt to convince her to get an abortion, but the plan backfires.

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  23. Background image for I Love You
    7.6/10(134 votes)

    #22 - I Love You

    S2:E5

    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.

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  24. Background image for Do You Speak English?
    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #23 - Do You Speak English?

    S5:E4

    When an odd new student suddenly pops up in class, Rita gets a moneymaking idea. Jeppe goes on a Tinder date. Attraction grows between Rasmus and Rita.

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    7.5/10(2 votes)

    #24 - Boundaries

    S5:E6

    Jeppe's ex unexpectedly returns. Hjørdis helps a student whose parents use her as a go-between. Rita's friendship with Gerd becomes a problem in class.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Unknown
  26. Background image for The Mother
    7.3/10(3 votes)

    #25 - The Mother

    S1:E8

    A lonely Rita starts hanging out with Rosa. But all hell breaks loose when Rosa realizes that Rita was the one her dad was having an affair with.

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    Director:Lars Kaalund
    Writer:Unknown

Best Episodes Summary

"The Lake" is the best rated episode of "Rita". It scored 8.5/10 based on 2 votes. Directed by Lars Kaalund and written by Unknown, it aired on 7/13/2020. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Home".