About Rita
Rita is a warm Danish dramedy, created by Christian Torpe, that premiered on TV2 in 2012 and follows Rita Madsen, a gifted and famously plain-spoken schoolteacher at a suburban Copenhagen school. Adored by her students for treating them like real people and feared by parents and administrators for saying exactly what she thinks, Rita is the kind of teacher who can reach a struggling kid in a single honest conversation, even as she leaves a trail of ruffled feathers among the adults around her.
The series balances Rita's instinctive brilliance in the classroom against the tangle of her personal life. A single mother of three, she is closer to her colleagues and her devoted best friend Hjordis than she is comfortable admitting, and her relationships with her own children, her co-workers, and the men in her life are as messy and human as the students she champions. The school becomes a second family, full of small crises, big feelings, and the quiet drama of ordinary lives.
Led by a magnetic performance from Mille Dinesen, Rita became one of Denmark's most beloved homegrown series and found a wide international audience after Netflix partnered with TV2 for its later seasons. Funny, sharp, and unexpectedly tender, it is a character study of a woman who is much better at fixing other people's lives than her own.
