Oh shows off her all-encompassing range in 'The Chair' as the first woman to run the English department at an old-school university.
plays Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim, newly installed head of the English department at Pembroke University, a small, lower-tier Ivy. Even before Ji-Yoon, the first woman to occupy the position, brings a meeting to something like order, things are falling apart for her — including, literally, the desk chair in her new office.
Ji-Yoon’s friend and colleague Yasmin, called “Yaz” , is up for tenure, and Ji-Yoon thinks that giving her the Distinguished Lectureship might be the shot of adrenaline the department needs to jump-start its heart. Why there is any drama around this is unclear — she’s a star, she’s young, she’s modern, her classes full of excited students who produce “Hamilton"-quality takes on “Moby-Dick,” she publishes, wins awards.
And the olds, represented by Bob Balaban’s Elliot and Holland Taylor’s Joan , don’t want to go, and Ji-Yoon doesn’t really want to make them go, though Peet has stacked the cards against them. We get jokes about colonoscopies and adult diapers and not being able to work the copier . “We’re still in our intellectual prime and have plenty to offer,” says one aged don, punctuating the statement with flatulence — adding insult to infirmity, so to speak.
Bill’s scenes with Juju, by contrast, remind us that he’s basically a good guy. There is a beautiful, quiet passage in which they leaf through her favorite book, Edward Steichens’as she points out pictures of mothers and babies. “It has naked pictures in it,” she warns Bill before they begin.
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