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Lessons in Chemistry is a 2023 historical fiction miniseries by Lee Eisenberg for Apple TV+. It is adapted from the novel of the same name.Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson) is a chemist at the fictional Hastings Research Institute whose research aspirations are repeatedly dogged by 1960s sexism. She eventually utilizes her chemistry expertise as the host of the beloved cooking show, Supper at Six.The show's main cast also includes Lewis Pullman as Calvin Evans, Aja Naomi King as Harriet Sloane, Stephanie Koenig as Fran Frask, and Patrick Walker as Mr. Wakely. Its first two episodes premiered on October 13, 2023, with subsequent episodes being released weekly. | |
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Nerds Are Sexy | |
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Nerds Are Sexy: Elizabeth is a brainy chemist. Despite her aloof nature, initial refusal to beautify herself, and lack of social graces, several characters remark on her attractiveness. And when asked to find a lifestyle show host who is both "maternal and fuckable", Walter evidently thinks Elizabeth fits that description as he offers her a job on the spot. | |
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Birds of a Feather: Calvin and Elizabeth are both socially awkward genius chemists, and so they bond and fall in love quickly after the misunderstanding of their first meeting is cleared up. | |
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It Will Never Catch On | |
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It Will Never Catch On: The Hastings highers-up reject Elizabeth and Calvin's grant proposal because it is based on the notion (then not yet proven) that DNA, not protein, is the building block of life. As anyone with a passing knowledge of biology knows, Calvin and Elizabeth will eventually be vindicated. | |
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Spock Speak: Elizabeth's style of hosting her cooking show is dry, straight-to-the-point, and scientific, setting her apart from other television show cooking hosts. Whenever she does include humor, it's deadpan and matter-of-fact. | |
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Someone to Remember Him By: After Calvin's death, Elizabeth finds out that she's pregnant; despite not wanting to ever have children, she decides to nonetheless keep it and raise their child as a single mother. | |
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Trauma Button: Elizabeth prefers working with the door open because closed doors remind her of her past assault. | |
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Rape as Backstory: Elizabeth never went on to do a PhD because she was assaulted by her master's thesis adviser. Simply being in an enclosed space with her boss causes uncomfortable memories to arise. | |
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Bunny-Ears Lawyer: Dr. Calvin Evans is brilliant enough at chemistry to be considered a Nobel Prize finalist, but he takes showers in the lab, appears to subsist on nuts, and never talks to his coworkers. He bonds with Elizabeth due to both of them being brilliant misfits. Though his coworkers both admire and resent him for this, he's explicitly only tolerated by his boss because he brings in big grants. | |
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Labcoat of Science and Medicine: Elizabeth forgoes the apron for a lab coat while hosting her cooking show to emphasize that cooking is essentially applied chemistry. | |
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Supreme Chef: Elizabeth is a great cook in part because she uses her chemistry expertise in the kitchen. She treats cooking like experiments, for example keeping extensive organic chemistry research notes as she tries to perfect melting cheese for lasagna. | |
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How We Got Here: The show opens on a taping of Supper at Six and displays Elizabeth as a poised and respected celebrity. It then jumps back seven years to show the events that led up to it. | |
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Bait-and-Switch: The fourth episode shows flashforwards of an ostracized, lonely young girl at school, heavily implied to be Elizabeth's daughter Madeline, but it's later revealed to be Madeline's friend Amanda. | |
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Wham Episode: The second episode ends with Calvin suddenly getting hit by a bus and dying after the show had spent the past two episodes developing his and Elizabeth's romance. | |
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Screwed by the Network:invoked Supper at Six goes on two weeks ahead of schedule while the kinks have not been ironed out. Walter suspects this is Phil's attempt to tank the show, but Elizabeth proves to be a hit with the female demographic. | |
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Stay in the Kitchen | |
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Stay in the Kitchen: The series' tone is established with Elizabeth's boss dismissing her research grant aspirations for being "just" a lab tech with no PhD and instead suggesting that she join the company pageant. | |
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Look Both Ways: How Calvin dies. His back was to the street as he was coaxing the leashed dog to get up and cross the street. He steps into the street and gets fatally hit by an oncoming bus. | |
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Straw Misogynist | |
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Straw Misogynist: Phil, the cartoonishly sexist station owner who hates Elizabeth's practical manner and would prefer her to act like a sexy housewife on air, is promptly proven wrong when female audiences who love Elizabeth begin tuning into the show in droves. | |
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Viewers Are Morons | |
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Viewers Are Morons: Subverted. Part of what makes Supper at Six a hit is that Elizabeth never talks down to her audience, instead respecting them and their capacity for understanding as she teaches them new things. | |
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Ditzy Genius | |
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Ditzy Genius: Both Calvin and Elizabeth are gifted at chemistry, but lacking in much social graces: Calvin innocently and sincerely asks why anyone would discriminate on the basis of gender, while Elizabeth takes a nurse's recommendation to name her newborn daughter whatever she's feeling at the moment literally, leading her to naming her "Mad". | |
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Executive Meddling | |
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Executive Meddling: Attempted in-universe, but finally defied. The station owner, Phil, hates Elizabeth's no-nonsense and scientific manner on air and tries to force her to be more feminine to appeal to a male demographic. Elizabeth stands her ground and the show is a hit with women. | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment | |
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Bait-and-Switch Comment: Boryweitz says he's not going to write Elizabeth a good recommendation for the job hunt — because he wants to hire her. | |
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Shout-Out | |
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Shout-Out: Some of the posters in Walter's office includes one for Our Miss Brooks. | |
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Unconventional Learning Experience | |
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Unconventional Learning Experience: In-Universe; Elizabeth's usage of scientific terms and processes in her show makes Supper at Six a great introduction to the basics of chemistry as well as a good cooking show on its own. | |
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Struggling Single Mother | |
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Struggling Single Mother: After Elizabeth's lover Calvin dies while she is pregnant, Elizabeth finds herself jobless and with no emotional support as she raises baby Mad. She gets better, eventually becoming a TV star with a social circle in her neighbors and rowing group. | |
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Race Lift | |
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Race Lift: Harriet Sloane, Elizabeth's grandmotherly white neighbor in the book, is reimagined as an politically-minded younger black mother. | |
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Contrived Coincidence: Elizabeth, upon learning that her Madeline's friend Amanda has been eating the lunches she makes for her daughter, confronts Amanda's father over this. Amanda's father happens to be a television producer looking for a timeslot to fill, leading to him offering her a job as the host of a new cooking show. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Walter, the network executive who sees that Elizabeth has the it factor, lets her have full control of her show and goes to bat for her against the sexist station owner. It's a stark contrast to her misogynistic colleagues at Hastings. | |
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Family Versus Career: Elizabeth wants to remain childfree because she knows it will derail her career. After Calvin dies and she learns she is pregnant with his child, she finds it difficult to continue being a scientist. | |
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Underwater Kiss: Calvin helps Elizabeth get used to blowing bubbles underwater by kissing her so she calms down while underwater. | |
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Product Placement: Defied. Asked to shill some canned beans on her show, Elizabeth instead derides them as full of a deadly amount of chemicals and dumps them into the trash on air. | |
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Maternally Challenged: Played with. Aspiring scientist Elizabeth is a loner genius, and when circumstances force her to care for her new baby alone, she despairs that little Mad doesn't seem to be taking to her and that she's unfit for motherhood. However, Harriet and her friends, despite their more traditional family structures, assure her that these feelings are completely normal. Seven years later, Mad and Elizabeth adore each other. | |
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