Netflix’s “The Chair”

Oh’s vibrant performance alone makes the three-hour limited series a joy, while showrunner Amanda Peet brings equal passion to lampooning academia. Befitting its academic setting, “The Chair” offers a doozy of a thesis statement. “I feel like someone handed me a ticking time-bomb because they wanted to make sure a woman was holding it when it explodes,” says Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim, played by the exhilarating Sandra Oh, in a moment of well-earned frustration about halfway through the Netflix limited series.

Some are institutional, ironed out only via a delicate balance of polite schmoozing and steadfast resolve. Others are personal, be it an inconvenient crush on a ragdoll of a professor (Jay Duplass) or behavioral issues with her obstinate young daughter (Everly Carganilla). As the first woman and first woman of color to serve as chair, Ji-Yoon recognizes she’s the critical initial step in a longer movement to bring Pembroke University out of the dark white ages.

But even though everyone agrees such change is necessary, some see her tactics as too pushy, and others see them as too soft. Co-created by Amanda Peet (the actor you may remember from “Togetherness” who’s now a first-time showrunner) and Annie Julia Wyman (a scholar with degrees from both Stanford and Harvard), the politics of upper academia are poked and prodded with glee throughout “The Chair,” but the bastion of liberal thought so often offered by campus life could just as easily be seen as broader satire of progressive inaction. They all want the same thing, or at least outwardly contend they do.

Eliza Morse / Netflix Weighty themes aside, Peet and Wyman’s series is far from a heavy watch. Tight episodes are buoyed by an ebullient passion for the collegiate experience, and seeing Sandra Oh play hot potato for six half-hour episodes is exactly as much fun as it sounds. Whether she’s sparring with the very visible old guard — highlighted by Holland Taylor’s sprightly put-upon Professor Hambling, Bob Balaban’s Professor Rentz, and the Dean himself, David Morse — or working on behalf of the fresh talent (mainly Professor McKay played by Nana Mensah), Oh brings a specificity to each interaction that conveys a long history with each individual.

Bill is a widower, still discombobulated a year after losing his wife and sent spiraling again when his only daughter leaves for college. (Ji-Yoon’s husband left years ago.) The will-they-won’t-they pull is always present, but Oh and Duplass lace it with worry over losing a workplace intimacy that exists without romance.

Who Is The Head Of The English Department At Pembroke University?

Professor Ji-Yoon Kim says she feels like she’s been handed a “ticking time bomb” in the trailer and it’s not hard to see why, as she quickly has to contend with budget cuts, scandal and sexism in only her first week in the job. Sandra Oh continues her hot streak with Netflix’s The Chair, a new original series that follows the head of an embattled English department at the prestigious Pembroke University. Industry veterans Holland Taylor and Bob Balaban are among The Chair cast, sharing the screen with promising rising stars including Nana Mensah and Mallory Low.

Alongside the original release date, the streaming service also shared a mocked-up student newspaper clipping announcing the appointment of Oh’s character Professor Ji-Yoon Kim as head of the English department. Pull up a seat and meet The Chair, a new comedy starring @IamSandraOh and created by Amanda Peet. Premieres August 27. pic.twitter.com/j6DNEx5j4C — Netflix (@netflix) May 12, 2021 The Chair cast Sandra Oh leads Netflix’s The Chair cast of as Professor Ji-Yoon Kim, the eponymous head of Pembroke’s struggling English department, tasked with revitalising its fading fortunes.

Everly Carganilla (Netflix’s Yes Day) stars as Ji-Yoon’s precocious young daughter, Ju-Hee ‘Ju Ju’ Kim, with Ji Yong Lee as her elderly father, Habi. Jay Duplass (Transparent, Search Party) co-stars as Professor Bill Dobson, an academic who becomes a figure of great controversy among students after performing an offensive gesture in one of his lectures. Bob Balaban (The Politician, The French Dispatch) portrays Elliot Rentz, a distinguished English professor who is resistant to constrictive criticism despite plummeting student enrolment.

The show will be made up of six half-hour episodes and looks to explore the difficulties faced by women and people of colour in the often traditional world of academia. The show is the first TV series written and produced by Amanda Peet, who is better known for her acting work in Brockmire and 2012. Her husband, David Benioff, will also be executive producing, along with his working partner D.B. Weiss, with the two best known for their former position as joint showrunners on HBO’s Game of Thrones.

The Chair trailer Netflix released the first full trailer for The Chair in July 2021, which you can watch below. Advertisement The following month, the streamer shared a featurette about the show which includes interviews with star and executive producer Sandra Oh, as well as showrunner Amanda Peet. Check out our guides to the best series on Netflix and best movies on Netflix.

Who Plays Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim In The Chair?

The Chair is pretty much a cross between Killing Eve and How to Get Away with Murder…minus the murder. The story follows Dr. Ji-yoon Kim (Oh), who is facing a career defining moment. It all starts when she’s named Chair (get it?) of Pembroke University’s prestigious English Department.

“I feel like someone handed me a ticking time bomb because they want a woman to be holding it when it explodes,” she says in the trailer. In addition to her starring role, Oh is also serving as an executive producer alongside Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B.

What Is The Name Of The New Netflix Miniseries?

In the latest of Netflix’s forays into television, writers Amanda Peet and Annie Julia Wyman (who completed her PhD in English at Harvard in 2017) crafted “The Chair,” a new miniseries offering an engaging, critical take on the struggles that people of color still face within the ivory towers of higher education. Delving into her struggles with a fickle love life, an aging and failing department and the difficulties of single motherhood, the show goes far beyond solely focusing on inequality within academia. The miniseries begins with an impressive yet hilarious introduction to the beautiful campus and its surrounding town.

She discovers that she is in over her head almost immediately, as not even her literal chair is functioning: It snaps almost as soon as she sits down. By the end of the season, Ji-Yoon and Bill’s relationship still does not come across as fleshed-out. It may be because of the nature of their positions as coworkers, or the showrunners’ reluctance to bog down their fast-moving dramedy with romantic backstories, but this aspect of the show feels unpolished, contrasting sharply from the rest of the well-curated production.

Bill, although a burgeoning alcoholic and irresponsible father himself, treats Ju Ju with kindness and support. Bill takes her on adventures and helps watch her while Ji-Yoon is trapped at work, trying to manage the department’s challenges. With his wife’s recent passing and his daughter moving away to college and cutting ties, Bill is left sad and alone.

Ji-Yoon is caught between protecting the university and someone she cares for deeply, and Bill is quickly torn off his academic pedestal. Clearly, the actions Bill took were grossly unprofessional and wrong, which the students of Pembroke are quick to point out. Through that storyline, the show explores underlying themes of racism, insensitivity and reckoning, illustrating how more and more university students across the country are no longer tolerant of “one bad joke.”

As the show continues, the audience is also introduced to Yaz Mackay (Nana Mensah), an up-and-coming professor seeking tenure. As a woman of color herself, Ji-Yoon tries to support her goals, hoping to see the first Black woman gain tenure and the “distinguished lectureship” in the English Department. As he wields the power to either grant her tenure or deny it, the effects of the school’s entrenched, institutional racism become more and more clear.

With only six 30-minute episodes, the audience barely has a chance to fully invest in the familial struggles between Ju Ju and Ji-Yoon, the chair’s potential romance with Bill, and the interplay within the eclectic, challenging English Department.

Who Will Write The Pilot Episode Of The Chair?

Here’s what we know so far about the series likely coming to Netflix in late 2021 or early 2022. Peet will serve as showrunner and executive producer while writer and professor Annie Wyman will co-write the pilot episode. The Chair will be produced by Benioff and Weiss’s production company Bighead Littlehead that is also busy working on Netflix’s upcoming Metal Lords, Three-Body Problem and more.

Sandra Oh will star in and executive produce The Chair, a new six-episode dramedy about the Chair of an English department at a major university. Amanda Peet will write and executive produce the series, which will also star Jay Duplass pic.twitter.com/LqqN41ARr9 — Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) February 21, 2020 When will The Chair be available on Netflix? It has been announced in May by Netflix that The Chair would drop on the streamer on August 27, but the date has been changed since.

Is there a trailer for The Chair? The first official sneak peek for Netflix’s The Chair was released on June 30, 2021, which also revealed the updated release date. A full trailer will follow within weeks.

Professor Joan Hambling (Taylor), a witty, no-nonsense English professor working in the department is her close friend and confidant. The upcoming Netflix dramedy will star Killing Eve‘s Sandra Oh who will also serve as executive producer. Oh will portray Ji-Yoon, the first woman Chair of the English department at Pembroke University.

Everly Carganilla is Ju-Hee ‘Ju Ju’ Kim, Ji-Yoon’s precocious young daughter. Deadline also announced some of the supporting cast: Ji Yong Lee as Habi, Ji-Yoon’s father and sometimes caregiver of her daughter; Mallory Low as Lilah, the teaching fellow for Professor Dobson’s (Jay Duplass) English course; Marcia DeBonis as Laurie, Assistant to the Chair of the English department; Ron Crawford as Professor John McHale, an old-school English professor on the brink of retirement; Ella Rubin (The Rose Tattoo) as Dafna, an undergrad student interested in Professor Dobson’s English course; Bob Stephenson (Lady Bird, Top Gun: Maverick) as Horatio, a tech repair guy who helps Professor Hambling (Taylor). How many episodes will The Chair have?

Oh’s vibrant performance alone makes the three-hour limited series a joy, while showrunner Amanda Peet brings equal passion to lampooning academia. Befitting its academic setting, “The Chair” offers a doozy of a thesis statement. “I feel like someone handed me a ticking time-bomb because they wanted to make sure a woman was holding it when it explodes,” says Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim, played by the exhilarating Sandra Oh, in a moment of well-earned frustration about halfway through the Netflix limited series.

Some are institutional, ironed out only via a delicate balance of polite schmoozing and steadfast resolve. Others are personal, be it an inconvenient crush on a ragdoll of a professor (Jay Duplass) or behavioral issues with her obstinate young daughter (Everly Carganilla). As the first woman and first woman of color to serve as chair, Ji-Yoon recognizes she’s the critical initial step in a longer movement to bring Pembroke University out of the dark white ages.

But even though everyone agrees such change is necessary, some see her tactics as too pushy, and others see them as too soft. Co-created by Amanda Peet (the actor you may remember from “Togetherness” who’s now a first-time showrunner) and Annie Julia Wyman (a scholar with degrees from both Stanford and Harvard), the politics of upper academia are poked and prodded with glee throughout “The Chair,” but the bastion of liberal thought so often offered by campus life could just as easily be seen as broader satire of progressive inaction. They all want the same thing, or at least outwardly contend they do.

Eliza Morse / Netflix Weighty themes aside, Peet and Wyman’s series is far from a heavy watch. Tight episodes are buoyed by an ebullient passion for the collegiate experience, and seeing Sandra Oh play hot potato for six half-hour episodes is exactly as much fun as it sounds. Whether she’s sparring with the very visible old guard — highlighted by Holland Taylor’s sprightly put-upon Professor Hambling, Bob Balaban’s Professor Rentz, and the Dean himself, David Morse — or working on behalf of the fresh talent (mainly Professor McKay played by Nana Mensah), Oh brings a specificity to each interaction that conveys a long history with each individual.

Bill is a widower, still discombobulated a year after losing his wife and sent spiraling again when his only daughter leaves for college. (Ji-Yoon’s husband left years ago.) The will-they-won’t-they pull is always present, but Oh and Duplass lace it with worry over losing a workplace intimacy that exists without romance.

Who Is The Head Of The English Department At Pembroke University?

Professor Ji-Yoon Kim says she feels like she’s been handed a “ticking time bomb” in the trailer and it’s not hard to see why, as she quickly has to contend with budget cuts, scandal and sexism in only her first week in the job. Sandra Oh continues her hot streak with Netflix’s The Chair, a new original series that follows the head of an embattled English department at the prestigious Pembroke University. Industry veterans Holland Taylor and Bob Balaban are among The Chair cast, sharing the screen with promising rising stars including Nana Mensah and Mallory Low.

Alongside the original release date, the streaming service also shared a mocked-up student newspaper clipping announcing the appointment of Oh’s character Professor Ji-Yoon Kim as head of the English department. Pull up a seat and meet The Chair, a new comedy starring @IamSandraOh and created by Amanda Peet. Premieres August 27. pic.twitter.com/j6DNEx5j4C — Netflix (@netflix) May 12, 2021 The Chair cast Sandra Oh leads Netflix’s The Chair cast of as Professor Ji-Yoon Kim, the eponymous head of Pembroke’s struggling English department, tasked with revitalising its fading fortunes.

Everly Carganilla (Netflix’s Yes Day) stars as Ji-Yoon’s precocious young daughter, Ju-Hee ‘Ju Ju’ Kim, with Ji Yong Lee as her elderly father, Habi. Jay Duplass (Transparent, Search Party) co-stars as Professor Bill Dobson, an academic who becomes a figure of great controversy among students after performing an offensive gesture in one of his lectures. Bob Balaban (The Politician, The French Dispatch) portrays Elliot Rentz, a distinguished English professor who is resistant to constrictive criticism despite plummeting student enrolment.

The show will be made up of six half-hour episodes and looks to explore the difficulties faced by women and people of colour in the often traditional world of academia. The show is the first TV series written and produced by Amanda Peet, who is better known for her acting work in Brockmire and 2012. Her husband, David Benioff, will also be executive producing, along with his working partner D.B. Weiss, with the two best known for their former position as joint showrunners on HBO’s Game of Thrones.

The Chair trailer Netflix released the first full trailer for The Chair in July 2021, which you can watch below. Advertisement The following month, the streamer shared a featurette about the show which includes interviews with star and executive producer Sandra Oh, as well as showrunner Amanda Peet. Check out our guides to the best series on Netflix and best movies on Netflix.

Who Plays Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim In The Chair?

The Chair is pretty much a cross between Killing Eve and How to Get Away with Murder…minus the murder. The story follows Dr. Ji-yoon Kim (Oh), who is facing a career defining moment. It all starts when she’s named Chair (get it?) of Pembroke University’s prestigious English Department.

“I feel like someone handed me a ticking time bomb because they want a woman to be holding it when it explodes,” she says in the trailer. In addition to her starring role, Oh is also serving as an executive producer alongside Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B.

What Is The Name Of The New Netflix Miniseries?

In the latest of Netflix’s forays into television, writers Amanda Peet and Annie Julia Wyman (who completed her PhD in English at Harvard in 2017) crafted “The Chair,” a new miniseries offering an engaging, critical take on the struggles that people of color still face within the ivory towers of higher education. Delving into her struggles with a fickle love life, an aging and failing department and the difficulties of single motherhood, the show goes far beyond solely focusing on inequality within academia. The miniseries begins with an impressive yet hilarious introduction to the beautiful campus and its surrounding town.

She discovers that she is in over her head almost immediately, as not even her literal chair is functioning: It snaps almost as soon as she sits down. By the end of the season, Ji-Yoon and Bill’s relationship still does not come across as fleshed-out. It may be because of the nature of their positions as coworkers, or the showrunners’ reluctance to bog down their fast-moving dramedy with romantic backstories, but this aspect of the show feels unpolished, contrasting sharply from the rest of the well-curated production.

Bill, although a burgeoning alcoholic and irresponsible father himself, treats Ju Ju with kindness and support. Bill takes her on adventures and helps watch her while Ji-Yoon is trapped at work, trying to manage the department’s challenges. With his wife’s recent passing and his daughter moving away to college and cutting ties, Bill is left sad and alone.

Ji-Yoon is caught between protecting the university and someone she cares for deeply, and Bill is quickly torn off his academic pedestal. Clearly, the actions Bill took were grossly unprofessional and wrong, which the students of Pembroke are quick to point out. Through that storyline, the show explores underlying themes of racism, insensitivity and reckoning, illustrating how more and more university students across the country are no longer tolerant of “one bad joke.”

As the show continues, the audience is also introduced to Yaz Mackay (Nana Mensah), an up-and-coming professor seeking tenure. As a woman of color herself, Ji-Yoon tries to support her goals, hoping to see the first Black woman gain tenure and the “distinguished lectureship” in the English Department. As he wields the power to either grant her tenure or deny it, the effects of the school’s entrenched, institutional racism become more and more clear.

With only six 30-minute episodes, the audience barely has a chance to fully invest in the familial struggles between Ju Ju and Ji-Yoon, the chair’s potential romance with Bill, and the interplay within the eclectic, challenging English Department.

Who Will Write The Pilot Episode Of The Chair?

Here’s what we know so far about the series likely coming to Netflix in late 2021 or early 2022. Peet will serve as showrunner and executive producer while writer and professor Annie Wyman will co-write the pilot episode. The Chair will be produced by Benioff and Weiss’s production company Bighead Littlehead that is also busy working on Netflix’s upcoming Metal Lords, Three-Body Problem and more.

Sandra Oh will star in and executive produce The Chair, a new six-episode dramedy about the Chair of an English department at a major university. Amanda Peet will write and executive produce the series, which will also star Jay Duplass pic.twitter.com/LqqN41ARr9 — Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) February 21, 2020 When will The Chair be available on Netflix? It has been announced in May by Netflix that The Chair would drop on the streamer on August 27, but the date has been changed since.

Is there a trailer for The Chair? The first official sneak peek for Netflix’s The Chair was released on June 30, 2021, which also revealed the updated release date. A full trailer will follow within weeks.

Professor Joan Hambling (Taylor), a witty, no-nonsense English professor working in the department is her close friend and confidant. The upcoming Netflix dramedy will star Killing Eve‘s Sandra Oh who will also serve as executive producer. Oh will portray Ji-Yoon, the first woman Chair of the English department at Pembroke University.

Everly Carganilla is Ju-Hee ‘Ju Ju’ Kim, Ji-Yoon’s precocious young daughter. Deadline also announced some of the supporting cast: Ji Yong Lee as Habi, Ji-Yoon’s father and sometimes caregiver of her daughter; Mallory Low as Lilah, the teaching fellow for Professor Dobson’s (Jay Duplass) English course; Marcia DeBonis as Laurie, Assistant to the Chair of the English department; Ron Crawford as Professor John McHale, an old-school English professor on the brink of retirement; Ella Rubin (The Rose Tattoo) as Dafna, an undergrad student interested in Professor Dobson’s English course; Bob Stephenson (Lady Bird, Top Gun: Maverick) as Horatio, a tech repair guy who helps Professor Hambling (Taylor). How many episodes will The Chair have?

Oh’s vibrant performance alone makes the three-hour limited series a joy, while showrunner Amanda Peet brings equal passion to lampooning academia. Befitting its academic setting, “The Chair” offers a doozy of a thesis statement. “I feel like someone handed me a ticking time-bomb because they wanted to make sure a woman was holding it when it explodes,” says Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim, played by the exhilarating Sandra Oh, in a moment of well-earned frustration about halfway through the Netflix limited series.

Some are institutional, ironed out only via a delicate balance of polite schmoozing and steadfast resolve. Others are personal, be it an inconvenient crush on a ragdoll of a professor (Jay Duplass) or behavioral issues with her obstinate young daughter (Everly Carganilla). As the first woman and first woman of color to serve as chair, Ji-Yoon recognizes she’s the critical initial step in a longer movement to bring Pembroke University out of the dark white ages.

But even though everyone agrees such change is necessary, some see her tactics as too pushy, and others see them as too soft. Co-created by Amanda Peet (the actor you may remember from “Togetherness” who’s now a first-time showrunner) and Annie Julia Wyman (a scholar with degrees from both Stanford and Harvard), the politics of upper academia are poked and prodded with glee throughout “The Chair,” but the bastion of liberal thought so often offered by campus life could just as easily be seen as broader satire of progressive inaction. They all want the same thing, or at least outwardly contend they do.

Eliza Morse / Netflix Weighty themes aside, Peet and Wyman’s series is far from a heavy watch. Tight episodes are buoyed by an ebullient passion for the collegiate experience, and seeing Sandra Oh play hot potato for six half-hour episodes is exactly as much fun as it sounds. Whether she’s sparring with the very visible old guard — highlighted by Holland Taylor’s sprightly put-upon Professor Hambling, Bob Balaban’s Professor Rentz, and the Dean himself, David Morse — or working on behalf of the fresh talent (mainly Professor McKay played by Nana Mensah), Oh brings a specificity to each interaction that conveys a long history with each individual.

Bill is a widower, still discombobulated a year after losing his wife and sent spiraling again when his only daughter leaves for college. (Ji-Yoon’s husband left years ago.) The will-they-won’t-they pull is always present, but Oh and Duplass lace it with worry over losing a workplace intimacy that exists without romance.

Who Is The Head Of The English Department At Pembroke University?

Professor Ji-Yoon Kim says she feels like she’s been handed a “ticking time bomb” in the trailer and it’s not hard to see why, as she quickly has to contend with budget cuts, scandal and sexism in only her first week in the job. Sandra Oh continues her hot streak with Netflix’s The Chair, a new original series that follows the head of an embattled English department at the prestigious Pembroke University. Industry veterans Holland Taylor and Bob Balaban are among The Chair cast, sharing the screen with promising rising stars including Nana Mensah and Mallory Low.

Alongside the original release date, the streaming service also shared a mocked-up student newspaper clipping announcing the appointment of Oh’s character Professor Ji-Yoon Kim as head of the English department. Pull up a seat and meet The Chair, a new comedy starring @IamSandraOh and created by Amanda Peet. Premieres August 27. pic.twitter.com/j6DNEx5j4C — Netflix (@netflix) May 12, 2021 The Chair cast Sandra Oh leads Netflix’s The Chair cast of as Professor Ji-Yoon Kim, the eponymous head of Pembroke’s struggling English department, tasked with revitalising its fading fortunes.

Everly Carganilla (Netflix’s Yes Day) stars as Ji-Yoon’s precocious young daughter, Ju-Hee ‘Ju Ju’ Kim, with Ji Yong Lee as her elderly father, Habi. Jay Duplass (Transparent, Search Party) co-stars as Professor Bill Dobson, an academic who becomes a figure of great controversy among students after performing an offensive gesture in one of his lectures. Bob Balaban (The Politician, The French Dispatch) portrays Elliot Rentz, a distinguished English professor who is resistant to constrictive criticism despite plummeting student enrolment.

The show will be made up of six half-hour episodes and looks to explore the difficulties faced by women and people of colour in the often traditional world of academia. The show is the first TV series written and produced by Amanda Peet, who is better known for her acting work in Brockmire and 2012. Her husband, David Benioff, will also be executive producing, along with his working partner D.B. Weiss, with the two best known for their former position as joint showrunners on HBO’s Game of Thrones.

The Chair trailer Netflix released the first full trailer for The Chair in July 2021, which you can watch below. Advertisement The following month, the streamer shared a featurette about the show which includes interviews with star and executive producer Sandra Oh, as well as showrunner Amanda Peet. Check out our guides to the best series on Netflix and best movies on Netflix.

Who Plays Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim In The Chair?

The Chair is pretty much a cross between Killing Eve and How to Get Away with Murder…minus the murder. The story follows Dr. Ji-yoon Kim (Oh), who is facing a career defining moment. It all starts when she’s named Chair (get it?) of Pembroke University’s prestigious English Department.

“I feel like someone handed me a ticking time bomb because they want a woman to be holding it when it explodes,” she says in the trailer. In addition to her starring role, Oh is also serving as an executive producer alongside Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B.

What Is The Name Of The New Netflix Miniseries?

In the latest of Netflix’s forays into television, writers Amanda Peet and Annie Julia Wyman (who completed her PhD in English at Harvard in 2017) crafted “The Chair,” a new miniseries offering an engaging, critical take on the struggles that people of color still face within the ivory towers of higher education. Delving into her struggles with a fickle love life, an aging and failing department and the difficulties of single motherhood, the show goes far beyond solely focusing on inequality within academia. The miniseries begins with an impressive yet hilarious introduction to the beautiful campus and its surrounding town.

She discovers that she is in over her head almost immediately, as not even her literal chair is functioning: It snaps almost as soon as she sits down. By the end of the season, Ji-Yoon and Bill’s relationship still does not come across as fleshed-out. It may be because of the nature of their positions as coworkers, or the showrunners’ reluctance to bog down their fast-moving dramedy with romantic backstories, but this aspect of the show feels unpolished, contrasting sharply from the rest of the well-curated production.

Bill, although a burgeoning alcoholic and irresponsible father himself, treats Ju Ju with kindness and support. Bill takes her on adventures and helps watch her while Ji-Yoon is trapped at work, trying to manage the department’s challenges. With his wife’s recent passing and his daughter moving away to college and cutting ties, Bill is left sad and alone.

Ji-Yoon is caught between protecting the university and someone she cares for deeply, and Bill is quickly torn off his academic pedestal. Clearly, the actions Bill took were grossly unprofessional and wrong, which the students of Pembroke are quick to point out. Through that storyline, the show explores underlying themes of racism, insensitivity and reckoning, illustrating how more and more university students across the country are no longer tolerant of “one bad joke.”

As the show continues, the audience is also introduced to Yaz Mackay (Nana Mensah), an up-and-coming professor seeking tenure. As a woman of color herself, Ji-Yoon tries to support her goals, hoping to see the first Black woman gain tenure and the “distinguished lectureship” in the English Department. As he wields the power to either grant her tenure or deny it, the effects of the school’s entrenched, institutional racism become more and more clear.

With only six 30-minute episodes, the audience barely has a chance to fully invest in the familial struggles between Ju Ju and Ji-Yoon, the chair’s potential romance with Bill, and the interplay within the eclectic, challenging English Department.

Who Will Write The Pilot Episode Of The Chair?

Here’s what we know so far about the series likely coming to Netflix in late 2021 or early 2022. Peet will serve as showrunner and executive producer while writer and professor Annie Wyman will co-write the pilot episode. The Chair will be produced by Benioff and Weiss’s production company Bighead Littlehead that is also busy working on Netflix’s upcoming Metal Lords, Three-Body Problem and more.

Sandra Oh will star in and executive produce The Chair, a new six-episode dramedy about the Chair of an English department at a major university. Amanda Peet will write and executive produce the series, which will also star Jay Duplass pic.twitter.com/LqqN41ARr9 — Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) February 21, 2020 When will The Chair be available on Netflix? It has been announced in May by Netflix that The Chair would drop on the streamer on August 27, but the date has been changed since.

Is there a trailer for The Chair? The first official sneak peek for Netflix’s The Chair was released on June 30, 2021, which also revealed the updated release date. A full trailer will follow within weeks.

Professor Joan Hambling (Taylor), a witty, no-nonsense English professor working in the department is her close friend and confidant. The upcoming Netflix dramedy will star Killing Eve‘s Sandra Oh who will also serve as executive producer. Oh will portray Ji-Yoon, the first woman Chair of the English department at Pembroke University.

Everly Carganilla is Ju-Hee ‘Ju Ju’ Kim, Ji-Yoon’s precocious young daughter. Deadline also announced some of the supporting cast: Ji Yong Lee as Habi, Ji-Yoon’s father and sometimes caregiver of her daughter; Mallory Low as Lilah, the teaching fellow for Professor Dobson’s (Jay Duplass) English course; Marcia DeBonis as Laurie, Assistant to the Chair of the English department; Ron Crawford as Professor John McHale, an old-school English professor on the brink of retirement; Ella Rubin (The Rose Tattoo) as Dafna, an undergrad student interested in Professor Dobson’s English course; Bob Stephenson (Lady Bird, Top Gun: Maverick) as Horatio, a tech repair guy who helps Professor Hambling (Taylor). How many episodes will The Chair have?

Oh’s vibrant performance alone makes the three-hour limited series a joy, while showrunner Amanda Peet brings equal passion to lampooning academia. Befitting its academic setting, “The Chair” offers a doozy of a thesis statement. “I feel like someone handed me a ticking time-bomb because they wanted to make sure a woman was holding it when it explodes,” says Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim, played by the exhilarating Sandra Oh, in a moment of well-earned frustration about halfway through the Netflix limited series.

Some are institutional, ironed out only via a delicate balance of polite schmoozing and steadfast resolve. Others are personal, be it an inconvenient crush on a ragdoll of a professor (Jay Duplass) or behavioral issues with her obstinate young daughter (Everly Carganilla). As the first woman and first woman of color to serve as chair, Ji-Yoon recognizes she’s the critical initial step in a longer movement to bring Pembroke University out of the dark white ages.

But even though everyone agrees such change is necessary, some see her tactics as too pushy, and others see them as too soft. Co-created by Amanda Peet (the actor you may remember from “Togetherness” who’s now a first-time showrunner) and Annie Julia Wyman (a scholar with degrees from both Stanford and Harvard), the politics of upper academia are poked and prodded with glee throughout “The Chair,” but the bastion of liberal thought so often offered by campus life could just as easily be seen as broader satire of progressive inaction. They all want the same thing, or at least outwardly contend they do.

Eliza Morse / Netflix Weighty themes aside, Peet and Wyman’s series is far from a heavy watch. Tight episodes are buoyed by an ebullient passion for the collegiate experience, and seeing Sandra Oh play hot potato for six half-hour episodes is exactly as much fun as it sounds. Whether she’s sparring with the very visible old guard — highlighted by Holland Taylor’s sprightly put-upon Professor Hambling, Bob Balaban’s Professor Rentz, and the Dean himself, David Morse — or working on behalf of the fresh talent (mainly Professor McKay played by Nana Mensah), Oh brings a specificity to each interaction that conveys a long history with each individual.

Bill is a widower, still discombobulated a year after losing his wife and sent spiraling again when his only daughter leaves for college. (Ji-Yoon’s husband left years ago.) The will-they-won’t-they pull is always present, but Oh and Duplass lace it with worry over losing a workplace intimacy that exists without romance.

Who Is The Head Of The English Department At Pembroke University?

Professor Ji-Yoon Kim says she feels like she’s been handed a “ticking time bomb” in the trailer and it’s not hard to see why, as she quickly has to contend with budget cuts, scandal and sexism in only her first week in the job. Sandra Oh continues her hot streak with Netflix’s The Chair, a new original series that follows the head of an embattled English department at the prestigious Pembroke University. Industry veterans Holland Taylor and Bob Balaban are among The Chair cast, sharing the screen with promising rising stars including Nana Mensah and Mallory Low.

Alongside the original release date, the streaming service also shared a mocked-up student newspaper clipping announcing the appointment of Oh’s character Professor Ji-Yoon Kim as head of the English department. Pull up a seat and meet The Chair, a new comedy starring @IamSandraOh and created by Amanda Peet. Premieres August 27. pic.twitter.com/j6DNEx5j4C — Netflix (@netflix) May 12, 2021 The Chair cast Sandra Oh leads Netflix’s The Chair cast of as Professor Ji-Yoon Kim, the eponymous head of Pembroke’s struggling English department, tasked with revitalising its fading fortunes.

Everly Carganilla (Netflix’s Yes Day) stars as Ji-Yoon’s precocious young daughter, Ju-Hee ‘Ju Ju’ Kim, with Ji Yong Lee as her elderly father, Habi. Jay Duplass (Transparent, Search Party) co-stars as Professor Bill Dobson, an academic who becomes a figure of great controversy among students after performing an offensive gesture in one of his lectures. Bob Balaban (The Politician, The French Dispatch) portrays Elliot Rentz, a distinguished English professor who is resistant to constrictive criticism despite plummeting student enrolment.

The show will be made up of six half-hour episodes and looks to explore the difficulties faced by women and people of colour in the often traditional world of academia. The show is the first TV series written and produced by Amanda Peet, who is better known for her acting work in Brockmire and 2012. Her husband, David Benioff, will also be executive producing, along with his working partner D.B. Weiss, with the two best known for their former position as joint showrunners on HBO’s Game of Thrones.

The Chair trailer Netflix released the first full trailer for The Chair in July 2021, which you can watch below. Advertisement The following month, the streamer shared a featurette about the show which includes interviews with star and executive producer Sandra Oh, as well as showrunner Amanda Peet. Check out our guides to the best series on Netflix and best movies on Netflix.

Who Plays Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim In The Chair?

The Chair is pretty much a cross between Killing Eve and How to Get Away with Murder…minus the murder. The story follows Dr. Ji-yoon Kim (Oh), who is facing a career defining moment. It all starts when she’s named Chair (get it?) of Pembroke University’s prestigious English Department.

“I feel like someone handed me a ticking time bomb because they want a woman to be holding it when it explodes,” she says in the trailer. In addition to her starring role, Oh is also serving as an executive producer alongside Game of Thrones creators David Benioff and D.B.

What Is The Name Of The New Netflix Miniseries?

In the latest of Netflix’s forays into television, writers Amanda Peet and Annie Julia Wyman (who completed her PhD in English at Harvard in 2017) crafted “The Chair,” a new miniseries offering an engaging, critical take on the struggles that people of color still face within the ivory towers of higher education. Delving into her struggles with a fickle love life, an aging and failing department and the difficulties of single motherhood, the show goes far beyond solely focusing on inequality within academia. The miniseries begins with an impressive yet hilarious introduction to the beautiful campus and its surrounding town.

She discovers that she is in over her head almost immediately, as not even her literal chair is functioning: It snaps almost as soon as she sits down. By the end of the season, Ji-Yoon and Bill’s relationship still does not come across as fleshed-out. It may be because of the nature of their positions as coworkers, or the showrunners’ reluctance to bog down their fast-moving dramedy with romantic backstories, but this aspect of the show feels unpolished, contrasting sharply from the rest of the well-curated production.

Bill, although a burgeoning alcoholic and irresponsible father himself, treats Ju Ju with kindness and support. Bill takes her on adventures and helps watch her while Ji-Yoon is trapped at work, trying to manage the department’s challenges. With his wife’s recent passing and his daughter moving away to college and cutting ties, Bill is left sad and alone.

Ji-Yoon is caught between protecting the university and someone she cares for deeply, and Bill is quickly torn off his academic pedestal. Clearly, the actions Bill took were grossly unprofessional and wrong, which the students of Pembroke are quick to point out. Through that storyline, the show explores underlying themes of racism, insensitivity and reckoning, illustrating how more and more university students across the country are no longer tolerant of “one bad joke.”

As the show continues, the audience is also introduced to Yaz Mackay (Nana Mensah), an up-and-coming professor seeking tenure. As a woman of color herself, Ji-Yoon tries to support her goals, hoping to see the first Black woman gain tenure and the “distinguished lectureship” in the English Department. As he wields the power to either grant her tenure or deny it, the effects of the school’s entrenched, institutional racism become more and more clear.

With only six 30-minute episodes, the audience barely has a chance to fully invest in the familial struggles between Ju Ju and Ji-Yoon, the chair’s potential romance with Bill, and the interplay within the eclectic, challenging English Department.

Who Will Write The Pilot Episode Of The Chair?

Here’s what we know so far about the series likely coming to Netflix in late 2021 or early 2022. Peet will serve as showrunner and executive producer while writer and professor Annie Wyman will co-write the pilot episode. The Chair will be produced by Benioff and Weiss’s production company Bighead Littlehead that is also busy working on Netflix’s upcoming Metal Lords, Three-Body Problem and more.

Sandra Oh will star in and executive produce The Chair, a new six-episode dramedy about the Chair of an English department at a major university. Amanda Peet will write and executive produce the series, which will also star Jay Duplass pic.twitter.com/LqqN41ARr9 — Netflix Queue (@netflixqueue) February 21, 2020 When will The Chair be available on Netflix? It has been announced in May by Netflix that The Chair would drop on the streamer on August 27, but the date has been changed since.

Is there a trailer for The Chair? The first official sneak peek for Netflix’s The Chair was released on June 30, 2021, which also revealed the updated release date. A full trailer will follow within weeks.

Professor Joan Hambling (Taylor), a witty, no-nonsense English professor working in the department is her close friend and confidant. The upcoming Netflix dramedy will star Killing Eve‘s Sandra Oh who will also serve as executive producer. Oh will portray Ji-Yoon, the first woman Chair of the English department at Pembroke University.

Everly Carganilla is Ju-Hee ‘Ju Ju’ Kim, Ji-Yoon’s precocious young daughter. Deadline also announced some of the supporting cast: Ji Yong Lee as Habi, Ji-Yoon’s father and sometimes caregiver of her daughter; Mallory Low as Lilah, the teaching fellow for Professor Dobson’s (Jay Duplass) English course; Marcia DeBonis as Laurie, Assistant to the Chair of the English department; Ron Crawford as Professor John McHale, an old-school English professor on the brink of retirement; Ella Rubin (The Rose Tattoo) as Dafna, an undergrad student interested in Professor Dobson’s English course; Bob Stephenson (Lady Bird, Top Gun: Maverick) as Horatio, a tech repair guy who helps Professor Hambling (Taylor). How many episodes will The Chair have?