Life is a funny phenomenon, as evidenced by the upcoming Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry (adapted from the best-selling book by Bonnie Garmus). No matter how careful and meticulous a planner is, no matter how conscientious his efforts to ensure he follows an established formula, there are always forces that can never truly be explained: catalysts for permanent change, for better or worse.
The path you were so determined to stick with from the beginning can take unpredictable turns until you look back and realize you've ended up in the least likely place you thought. On the other hand, haven't all the best discoveries, scientific or otherwise, been the result of unplanned moments? It's a lesson that the show's heroine, the smart and underrated chemist Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson), has to learn for herself in the years she adopts the show, but it doesn't come without difficulties, losses, personal and professional frustrations. unexpected success and surprises along the way.
Creator: Lee Eisenberg
Stars: Brie Larson, Stephanie Koenig, Alice Halsey
The show begins in the 1950s, when women were expected to be secretaries and assistants, not to wear a white coat and big neoprene gloves, but that's exactly what we find Elizabeth doing. Even though she is one of the sharpest minds within the Hastings Research Institute, she has been relegated primarily to cafe duties on behalf of her male colleagues, forced to conduct her own experiments under the cover of night after everyone has clocked out. to start the day. When she decides to borrow some chemicals from another lab belonging to award-winning and socially awkward chemist Calvin Evans (Lewis Pullman), her eventual discovery of the missing bottle puts them on an inevitable collision course, one that magnificently changes both of their lives. . and, later, it becomes one of the best television romances of the year.
But Elizabeth's dreams of having her work academically recognized will not come true, and years later, when she has resigned herself to the prospect of selling Tupperware and being a mother, a different opportunity comes to her. She enters Supper at Six, a new cooking show for a local television station, and it turns out that the station desperately needs a host.
Elizabeth's strengths in chemistry have always been intertwined with her love of cooking, as she constantly works and reworks her own recipes in an effort to achieve the perfect reaction in the oven. But this is officially taking things up a notch in terms of its visibility now that it's being projected into other people's homes every night, and it's what it does with its platform that proves to be even more subversive and impactful than its minute details. laboratory experiments.
As a character, Elizabeth Zott could be at risk of being labeled an “unlikable heroine.” She is too direct, too direct, too deadpan. She has no qualms about speaking her mind first, even if it means there will soon be consequences, and in the society she's forced to be a part of, that means sexism and misogyny are thrown in her direction. at almost all times. .
Regardless of the discrimination she faces, Elizabeth openly rejects all of the traditional archetypes she is supposed to inhabit solely as a result of her gender. At one point, she definitely tells Calvin that she's not interested in getting married or having children, but her response (simply thanking him for telling her what she needs from their relationship) only proves that they are two halves that make a perfectly whole. imperfect.
Calvin is also one of the few people who can see what we see in Elizabeth, those flashes of vulnerability that occasionally emerge beneath her more hardened exterior. It's not that Elizabeth necessarily wants to keep others at arm's length, but it's undeniable that certain traumatic experiences from her past have sharpened her, turned her into the kind of woman who can't afford to be too effusive or friendly for others. men you work with don't start getting scared. have the wrong idea about her intentions.
In many ways, this character feels like the natural next step in Larson's acting career to date, a tacit response to the criticism that may have been leveled at her behavior. In a particularly pointed scene later in the season, when a male-dominated focus group offers feedback on the first episode of Supper at Six, the language of her feedback could have been taken directly from beneath a trailer on YouTube.
With Lessons in Chemistry, Larson dynamically inhabits the role of an objective-oriented woman.
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