How One Line of Dialogue Anchors the Tragic Love Story at the Heart of ‘Lessons in Chemistry’
variety.comHunter Ingram The challenge of the first two episodes of Apple TV+’s “Lessons in Chemistry” is to establish a love story that will reverberate even after it is tragically cut short.
Elizabeth Zott (Brie Larson) and Calvin Evans (Lewis Pullman) fall for each other slowly and then all at once. Two brilliant chemists who have an easier time making small talk with their beakers than they do with the rest of the world find equal footing with each other.
It’s the kind of love that sweeps even two stubbornly logical people off their feet. “It’s those beginning stages of love when you feel so much and you feel so deeply, and colors are so much more radiant and scents are so much more powerful,” Pullman tells Variety.
It’s why Calvin is shocked to be confronted with the prejudicial hurdles of the 1950s that Elizabeth knows all too well. In the waning moments of Episode 2, the pair go before the Hastings Research Institute board to publish their groundbreaking work that proves DNA is the foundation of life.
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