The Many-Layered "Lessons in Chemistry"

A Show About Workplace Misogyny and Female Empowerment Tells Other, Equally Powerful Tales

This essay contains spoilers

I came to Apple TV+’s “Lessons in Chemistry” with no knowledge of the novel by Bonnie Garmus and only the vaguest notion of what it was about, other than a period piece set in the 1950s. Because that era is less often depicted in movies and TV these days, I probably would have enjoyed it for costumes alone; thus my expectati…