Given the title, you might think it’ll be homework watching this series.
Given the instructional, dry-as-dust title, "Lessons in Chemistry," you might think it'll be homework watching the eight-part, Apple TV+ series. No worries. Though tonal shifts from comedy to calamity too often break its stride, this buoyant series handles the subject of the 1960's battle for women's rights with a touch that is funny, touching and vital.
When we first meet Elizabeth she's a struggling lab tech in 1950s Los Angeles where the entrenched men in charge keep her in subservience. Her insistence on open doors comes from a past assault at work where her complaints of abuse by a male colleague fall on deaf ears.The exception is fellow loner Calvin Evans, the Nobel-winning head chemist played with smarts and charming awkwardness by Lewis Pullman . Her talent and droll wit are a match for his.
Out of a need to support herself and unplanned daughter Madeline, played by Alice Halsey, she takes a seemingly out-of-nowhere offer to host a local TV cooking show called "Supper at Six," using chemistry as her guide and female empowerment as her secret sauce. It's too bad that the streaming version added much that was not in the Garmus book, including a subplot involving Elizabeth and a Black neighbor, Harriet , who involves her in the civil-rights movement. A worthy topic, which extends the social activism of the series beyond white problems but is developed too thinly to be more than a distraction.There's also an entire episode whimsically narrated by the dog Six-Thirty . Even Calvin shows up as a supportive ghost.
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