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- AppleTV+
- Oct 12, 2023
- AppleTV+
- Oct 12, 2023
Summary Set in the 1950s, after chemist Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson) is fired from her lab, she takes a job as a host on a TV cooking show in this series based on novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus.
- AppleTV+
- Oct 12, 2023
- AppleTV+
- Oct 12, 2023
Summary Set in the 1950s, after chemist Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson) is fired from her lab, she takes a job as a host on a TV cooking show in this series based on novel of the same name by Bonnie Garmus.
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 30 Critic Reviews
68
57% Positive
17 Reviews
17 Reviews
43% Mixed
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13 Reviews
0% Negative
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This terrifically entertaining eight-part series more than meets them [expectations]--think The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel as a Ph.D. candidate--as the emotionally repressed Elizabeth opens her life and her heart to memorable characters who challenge and appreciate her. [16 Oct - 5 Nov 2023, p.8]
This is a well-made and beautifully-envisioned series whose niggles come from not from laziness, but an excess of ambition.
Though tonal shifts from comedy to calamity break its stride, this fierce, funny and vital series tackles a mid-century battle for women’s rights through the eyes of a chemist—an Emmy-bound Brie Larson—who uses a local TV cooking show to lead a feminist charge.
While the love story and the cooking scenes are delightful to watch, the rest of Lessons in Chemistry droops. Bonnie Garmus wrote her novel so cinematically that, when actually adapted, there’s no room for creative liberty.
Alas: this eight-part adaptation of Lessons in Chemistry (Apple TV+) messes with Garmus’s winning formula. Lee Eisenberg’s glossy adaptation is still an enjoyable watch, with its detailed Mad Men-esque period styling (and attitudes) and mouthwatering food preparation.
For a show about a woman who trusted her viewers, this one often doesn’t give its watchers the same treatment, spelling out what we already know is in the formula.
It just struggles to fit its saccharine love story alongside a ’50s feminist fantasy, a porous character study, and a peripheral civil rights C-plot.
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