Brian Jordan Alvarez, Josh Greenbaum, and Elisabeth Moss on The Treat

The Treatment

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4.6 • 639 Ratings

🗓️ 5 October 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

This week on The Treatment, Elvis welcomes actor, writer, and director Brian Jordan Alvarez who created and stars in the new FX comedy English Teacher. Then, Will & Harper director Josh Greenbaum talks about his documentary which follows Will Ferrell and Harper Steele on an eventful and moving road trip across the country. And for The Treat, The Veil star Elisabeth Moss talks about a composer whose work informs her acting and directing.

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0:00.0	From KCRW Santa Monica and KCRW.com, it's The Treatment.
0:14.3	It's the Treatment.
0:15.2	I'm Elvis Mitchell.
0:16.1	Lucky to be sitting across from the man who finally snared Jack in Will & Grace.
0:22.3	And there's one over many hearts with his terrific stuff online, his web series.
0:26.3	But now he's starring in, executive producing, writing and directing many episodes of the show on FX.
0:33.6	English teacher.
0:34.9	No article, just English teacher.
0:37.1	That's right. My guest is Brian Jordan. Now, for us, as well, thanks so much for English teacher. That's right.
0:37.5	My guest is Brian Jordan.
0:38.7	Now, first of all, thanks so much for being here.
0:40.7	Thanks for having me.
0:41.7	And first, let's talk about the title.
0:43.4	There's no article in English teacher.
0:45.8	I haven't heard it describe it like that.
0:47.8	There's no article.
0:48.9	Yeah, English teacher.
0:51.5	I like it because it's very dry that title.
0:54.0	Obviously, a lot of people, I don't know if this is obvious, but a lot of people are calling it the English teacher.
0:58.6	I've just accepted it.
1:00.2	Do you know that the band, Eagles is called Eagles?
1:03.6	Did you know that?
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