A Symphony of Success: Emmy Nominees Talk VFX, Composing, and Editing

We had the pleasure of hosting two panels this year—check out our first panel here— ahead of the 2024 Emmy Awards, which will be held live on ABC on Sunday, September 15, from 8-11 ET. For our second panel, our Emmy nominees came from a wide-ranging group of shows—Lessons in Chemistry‘s ace director Millicent Shelton, nominated for directing episode 6, “Poirot,” Shōgun‘

How “Lessons in Chemistry” DP Zachary Galler Created a Show-Within-a-Show

In writer Susannah Grant’s adaption of the novel Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus, currently airing on Apple TV+, Brie Larson plays a budding chemist, Elizabeth Zott, thwarted in her work by her male colleagues who put politics and patriarchy above credible scientific achievement. Shut out of any hope of a chemistry career despite her brilliance, Elizabeth falls into a television career. It’s the early 1950s, and cooking shows are still relatively new,

“Lessons in Chemistry” Makeup Department Head Miho Suzuki Captures the Pressure Cooker of Being a 1950s Woman

Chemical reactions can be calculated and quantified, but matters of the heart are far less predictable. When scientist Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson) finds herself pressed toward domesticity from all sides, she realizes that the way to pursue her passions, empower women, and advocate for equality may be through the kitchen after all. Lessons in Chemistry – based on the hit novel by Bonnie Garmus – follows Zott’s evolution from student to TV star.

Brie Larson’s a Cooking Phenom in First “Lessons in Chemistry” Trailer

“I like to cook. It’s just chemistry.”

This is how Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson) looks at her skill in the kitchen, not as a chore or a duty or even an art form, but as, well, a lesson in chemistry. Elizabeth is a lab tech, a talented one, who is on the cusp of a scientific breakthrough when she’s summarily fired. The problem for Elizabeth is this is the 1950s, and young women are not the types of people her male bosses want,

Fall TV Watchlist: From “Lessons in Chemistry” to “Lupin: Part 3”

A slew of new series and returning favorites are coming to you this fall in what is, admittedly, a pretty wild TV season considering the simultaneous strikes. But, playing the optimist, we’re hoping a resolution is in the offing, and we’ll all be able to watch new and returning series knowing that things will be back to normal. Hope springs eternal for the film and TV enthusiast.

Onto the upcoming fall season, which includes adaptations of bestselling novels,