The Chair. U.S. Netflix

 

Here’s a look at university life from a professor’s point of view. The talented Sandra Oh (playing Dr.Ji-Yoon Kim) has just been named chair of the English department, and with that title comes way too many nasty responsibilities. Dean Larson has tasked her with cutting corners and revamping the department to bring it into the 21st century, but that job is incredibly complicated. There’s the old guard, a popular professor (and grieving widower), an untenured Black professor, and Dr. Kim herself, the first woman of color named as a department chair, all of whom have issues that she must deal with. She also has to contend with her way-too-precocious daughter and her father. And David Duchovny appears as himself, a self-important actor who has agreed to take over for the errant grieving professor, who has become the center of an anti-Nazi protest. It’s an interesting take on the politics of campus life. 

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