WHAT ARE YOU WATCHING? Plus Fantastic Fashion And Costumes In "Lessons In Chemistry," "The Other Black Girl" and "Fellow Travelers!"
Are you watching anything good lately? And do you want to steal all the costumes for your own wardrobe? Me, too! Despite the various strikes having delayed production for new shows - we won't see anything truly spanking-new until spring - there are still some out there worth your time, three of which, in their own ways, are well above average. And get this, they all have something in common: amazing costume designers. First up is "Lessons in Chemistry." As usual with an AppleTV production, it's sumptuously overproduced, which in most instances means a bloated, great-looking show without much of a pulse. It the case of "Lessons in Chemistry," it likely helps that the show is based on a beloved novel in which Elizabeth, a brainiac scientist, finds her gifts ignored by the sexist scientific community in the 1960s, then pivots to become, of all things, a home cooking TV star - and all without sacrificing her nerdcore attributes. Was Brie Larson born to play this...