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Lessons in Chemistry
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Friday, Oct. 13, Apple TV+
part Marie Curie, with the movie-star glow of a Kim Novak, brilliant chemist Elizabeth Zott (the luminous Brie Larson) is ahead of her 1950s times. She channels her analytic genius into the kitchen when toxic sexism within a California college’s lab subjects her to humiliation from her patronizing colleagues: “You are just not smart enough,” says her smarmy boss. She’ll show him, and everyone else. When circumstances thrust her, her clinical approach—“Cooking is not fun. It is vital work”—is an unexpected hit. Housewives take notes when Zott speaks. Her producer (’s Kevin Sussman) explains her appeal: “You respect your audience. You don’t talk down to people. You meet them where they are and you somehow raise them up.”
