A New Netflix Show Will Tackle Life as a Department Chair

Vonnegut · Feb 26, 2020

Academics channeled their inner screenwriter this past weekend after the news broke that Sandra Oh would be starring as a department chair at a major university in a coming series on Netflix.

It wasn’t immediately clear what, if any, university would be depicted in The Chair, which will feature Oh, the star of Killing Eve, as chair of an English department. Deadline described the series — written by the actress Amanda Peet with Annie Julia Wyman, who earned a Ph.D. at Harvard — as a “dramedy.”

Academe quickly took notice, with some wondering why it had taken Hollywood so long to “mine that rich field for comedy.”
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