Genre: TV Series
Grade: A
Notable People: Brie Larson, Lewis Pullman, Aja Naomi King, Kevin Sussman, Beau Bridges, Created by: Lee Eisenberg
Title: Lessons in Chemistry
Review A drama series starring Larson as a pregnant chemist who teaches a cooking show in the 1950s. The series explores her challenges and choices as a woman in a male-dominated field – and world. The cast is great and the post-war LA fifties focus is exceedingly well done. My friend, Ana, told this was must watch TV, and I signed up for a week long binge for free on Apple to watch it. Larson is absolutely riveting in career defining role as a total nerd/scientist lacking any social skills or any desire to be social, until she meets an equally nerdy Nobel prize type scientist, played to the hit by Pullman. The show brings out a lot of emotion and a lot of well-deserved shame about the way we treated woman as recently as the 1950s. Originally planned as clearly a one and done miniseries of the popular book- the sow has been such a surprise that season two is being considered by Apple. This is terrific show.