Fans of Bonnie Garmus’s best-selling novel, Lessons In Chemistry, rejoice! Apple TV+ has finally released details of when we can expect its adaptation of the story to hit the small screen — and it’ll land just in time for autumn.
Brie Larson will star as the story’s protagonist, scientist Elizabeth Zott, who finds herself challenging the patriarchal 1950s society she lives in. Academy Award-winner and Room star Larson will also executive produce the series.
For the unfamiliar, Garmus’s novel was a Sunday Times bestseller upon its release in 2022 and was also nominated for Waterstones’s debut fiction prize. The best part is that there’s still time to grab a copy to read before binging the show for those who haven’t already. This is everything we know so far about the Lessons In Chemistry series.
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Is there a trailer for Lessons In Chemistry?
Yes, Apple TV+ has finally released a full-length trailer for the long-awaited adaptation.
What is the Lessons In Chemistry plot?
According to the show’s official synopsis, the series is ‘Set in the early 1950s’ and ‘Follows Elizabeth Zott, whose dream of being a scientist is put on hold in a society deeming that women belong in the domestic sphere, not the professional one. When Elizabeth finds herself pregnant, alone and fired from her lab, she musters the ingenuity only a single mother has. She accepts a job as a host on a TV cooking show, and sets out to teach a nation of overlooked housewives – and the men who are suddenly listening – a lot more than recipes … all the while craving a return to her true love: science.’
Who makes up the cast of Lessons In Chemistry?
Larson will be joined by Top Gun: Maverick’s Lewis Pullman, How To Get Away With Murder’s Aja Naomi King, The Flight Attendant’s Stephanie Koenig, The Dropout’s Kevin Sussman, Gaslit’s Patrick Walker and Me And Earl And The Dying Girl’s Thomas Mann.
Lessons In Chemistry’s showrunner is Lee Eisenberg, the co-creator of Apple TV+’s WeWork drama WeCrashed, while Ozark’s Jason Bateman, Susannah Grant and Larson herself will serve as executive producers.
What is the release date of Lessons In Chemistry on Apple TV+?
Mark your calendars: the first two episodes of Lessons In Chemistry will land on Apple TV+ on October 13, with later episodes then debuting every Friday until November 24, making it the perfect feel-good series to binge during autumn.
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