

Kevin Sussman (“The Big Bang Theory,” “The Dropout,” “Better Call Saul”) as Walter.Thomas Mann (“Winning Time: The Rise of the Lakers Dynasty,” “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”) as Boryweitz.Patrick Walker (“Gaslit,” “The Last Days of Ptolemy Grey”) as Wakely.Stephanie Koenig (“The Flight Attendant,” “The Offer”) as Fran Frask.Aja Naomi King (“How to Get Away with Murder,” “Sylvie’s Love,” “The Upside,” The Birth of a Nation”) as Harriet Slone.

Lewis Pullman (“Top Gun: Maverick,” “Outer Range”) as Calvin.Starring alongside Larson and rounding out the cast for the highly anticipated drama are: Based on the bestselling, debut novel from author, science editor and copywriter Bonnie Garmus, “Lessons in Chemistry” will make its global debut on Apple TV+ in 2023.

These three are the characters who win our hearts, but the peripheral team of Harriet (friend and babysitter), Miss Frask (nemesis), Walter (TV colleague) and Wakely (reverend and much more) serve the purpose of illustrating how humans don't have to cope alone, even when they feel cast out and at their lowest ebb.Apple TV+ today unveiled a first look at “Lessons in Chemistry,” and announced that production is underway on Apple Studios’ new drama series starring and executive produced by Academy Award winner Brie Larson (“Captain Marvel,” “Room”). There's a beautiful integral love story with brilliant scientist Calvin Evans, and the tales of Elizabeth, Calvin and Mad are woven elegantly and knotted together tightly. Mad is well aware that her mother is depressed, and that they are both way outside what society expects from its women.Įlizabeth's story has it all, a traumatic childhood and a struggle against no ceiling, never mind a glass one. In the first scene we meet Elizabeth, leaving her home early in the morning, kissing her precocious 4-year-old daughter, Mad, goodbye as she heads out to her day, a day that will culminate in the recording of her hit TV show, Dinner at Six, in which Elizabeth is expected to tone down the chemistry and give the housewives what the male production team think they want: lipstick, smiles, fluff and food to keep the husbands happy.

The novel begins after this event and wends back and forth in time.
