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->''"I don't feel like I inherited an English department. I feel like I got handed a ticking time bomb because they wanted to make sure a woman was holding it when it explodes."''
-->-- '''Ji-yoon Kim'''
''The Chair'' is an American comedy-drama MiniSeries starring Creator/SandraOh as Professor Ji-yoon Kim, the first woman to become English department chair at her New England university. She must then navigate the staid old boy's club of academia, wrangle her friends and colleagues, and balance her work, family, and love lives.
Supporting actors include Creator/JayDuplass, Creator/NanaMensah, Creator/HollandTaylor, and Creator/BobBalaban as Ji-yoon's colleagues.
The show was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on August 20, 2021. It was cancelled after one season.
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!!Tropes:
* AsHimself: The dean recruits a celebrity as distinguished lecturer to help boost enrollment. Said lecturer is Creator/DavidDuchovny (himself a former English grad student), who appears in "The Last Bus In Town".
* BlackAndNerdy: Yaz is a promising tenure-track English academic at Pembroke University. She's also a black woman, and a lot of her subplot is navigating the implicit racism and misogyny she faces from her older white colleagues.
* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: Ji-yoon is the first woman of color to lead Pembroke University's English department.
* CareerVersusMan: Ji-yoon is department chair, but has feelings for a problematic coworker that she tries to juggle with her duties to the university.
* InterracialAdoptionStruggles: Korean-American Ji-yoon Kim has a young adopted Mexican daughter nicknamed Ju Ju, who is increasingly distressed because she can tell she isn't biologically related to the Kims.
* JobTitle: The show's title, ''The Chair'', refers to being the chair of a department in a university.
* ValuesDissonance: Invoked. The 2020s English department members often need to discuss if entries in the literary canon like ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' or ''Literature/MobyDick'' are still worth discussing when they were written for audiences from centuries ago and their authors held outdated values.
* YoureNotMyFather: Ju Ju tells her adopted mom Ji-yoon that she isn't ''actually'' Ju Ju's mother, saddening Ji-yoon.
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->''"I don't feel like I inherited an English department. I feel like I got handed a ticking time bomb because they wanted to make sure a woman was holding it when it explodes."''
-->-- '''Ji-yoon Kim'''
''The Chair'' is an American comedy-drama MiniSeries starring Creator/SandraOh as Professor Ji-yoon Kim, the first woman to become English department chair at her New England university. She must then navigate the staid old boy's club of academia, wrangle her friends and colleagues, and balance her work, family, and love lives.
Supporting actors include Creator/JayDuplass, Creator/NanaMensah, Creator/HollandTaylor, and Creator/BobBalaban as Ji-yoon's colleagues.
The show was released on Creator/{{Netflix}} on August 20, 2021. It was cancelled after one season.
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!!Tropes:
* AsHimself: The dean recruits a celebrity as distinguished lecturer to help boost enrollment. Said lecturer is Creator/DavidDuchovny (himself a former English grad student), who appears in "The Last Bus In Town".
* BlackAndNerdy: Yaz is a promising tenure-track English academic at Pembroke University. She's also a black woman, and a lot of her subplot is navigating the implicit racism and misogyny she faces from her older white colleagues.
* BreakingTheGlassCeiling: Ji-yoon is the first woman of color to lead Pembroke University's English department.
* CareerVersusMan: Ji-yoon is department chair, but has feelings for a problematic coworker that she tries to juggle with her duties to the university.
* InterracialAdoptionStruggles: Korean-American Ji-yoon Kim has a young adopted Mexican daughter nicknamed Ju Ju, who is increasingly distressed because she can tell she isn't biologically related to the Kims.
* JobTitle: The show's title, ''The Chair'', refers to being the chair of a department in a university.
* ValuesDissonance: Invoked. The 2020s English department members often need to discuss if entries in the literary canon like ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'' or ''Literature/MobyDick'' are still worth discussing when they were written for audiences from centuries ago and their authors held outdated values.
* YoureNotMyFather: Ju Ju tells her adopted mom Ji-yoon that she isn't ''actually'' Ju Ju's mother, saddening Ji-yoon.
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