Brie Larson and Lewis Pullman in Lessons in Chemistry
to Apple TV+, showrunner Lee Eisenberg smoothes some plot holes, explains some inexplicable twists, and takes the politics of the era more seriously than the book did.
The cast of the show is much more diverse than that of the book, and secondary characters thankfully get beefed-up storylines. Calvin and Elizabeth's neighbor Harriet, for instance, is no longer a nosy neighbor spying on Elizabeth out of boredom. Instead, she's Calvin's true friend with her own independent life as an attorney and Civil Rights advocate.
In the book, the notorious throw-up encounter takes place at a play. The TV show invents a new setting: A Little Miss Hastings pageant held by Elizabeth's employer, Hastings Lab. Elizabeth is forced to participate just because she is a woman.
Calvin teaching Elizabeth how to swim doesn’t exist in the book but it does capture their courtship and chemistry in a succinct way. They can be intimate in this empty pool in a way they cannot in other settings given the time period. It's hard not to be charmed watching them fall in love as they kiss chastely in period-appropriate bathing suits.
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