Lessons in Chemistry–A Delicious Dose
Based upon Bonnie Garmus’s bestselling blockbuster of the same name, the AppleTV+ mini-series Lessons in Chemistry opens in 1961, at the cusp of the feminist and civil rights revolutions. Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson, Academy Award-winning actress of “Room”), a highly educated and talented chemist, has taken a job as a low-level lab tech supporting an all- male team of chemists at a renowned research institute. The major problem: none of the male chemists see her as a peer.
However, one equally brilliant chemist, Calvin Evans (Lewis Pullman), sees her for who she really...