One of those rare cases when the TV adaptation is better than the book. A very important TV show. Everyone should see it.

Brie Larson is fantastic as chemist Elizabeth Zott in the 2023 miniseries.

After being fired from her job as a lab tech, chemist Elizabeth Zott uses her new job hosting a 1950s TV cooking show titled Supper at Six to educate housewives on scientific topics.

Alice Halsey as daughter Madeline “Mad” Zott is perfect.

Click PLAY or watch it on YouTube.

I liked the show so much I downloaded Lessons in Chemistry, the novel by Bonnie Garmus  (2022).

Stephanie Merritt of The Guardian praised the author’s ability in creating a “richly comic novel around a character who is entirely deadpan” …

Elisabeth Egan called the book “irresistible, satisfying and full of fuel” and claimed that “feminism is the catalyst” … 

Michael Byers from Cascadia Daily News wrote that the “heroine is brave, original and completely unafraid” …

The debut novel was a hit when published 2022.

A brilliant idea, I feel. In an era when ReTrumplicans want to go back to the 1950s — this book reveals how unfairly women were treated in the not-so-distant past.

When they say MAGA — the Great Again was this era of American history when women and minorities were treated so badly. For me, MAGA = racist. MAGA = sexist.

A highlight of the book is the dog Six-Thirty. And that’s well done in the show, as well.

All of the changes made from book to screen were for the better, I feel.

Aja Naomi King as Harriet Sloane is a much more interesting friend / neighbour on TV than in the novel.