The series stars Craig Robinson as a high school music teacher and part-time musician.
[1] The original pilot was created by Owen Ellickson and was in development at NBC for the 2013–14 United States network television season.
[6][7] It also starred Robinson, and included a cast of Jean Smart, Larenz Tate, Amandla Stenberg and Amanda Lund.
The site's critical consensus reads, "Mr. Robinson is held back by too many sitcom tropes, bad plots, and stock characters, wasting its appealing star.
"[14] On Metacritic, the series has a score of 41 out of 100, based on 20 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".