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Aug 20, 2021 · Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim’s vision of the English department’s future takes a back seat to its many existential crises. A recap of “Brilliant Mistake” episode 1 of season 1 of “The Chair” on ...
Brilliant Mistake: Directed by Daniel Gray Longino. With Sandra Oh, Jay Duplass, Bob Balaban, Nana Mensah. With the department facing budget cuts and low enrollment, Ji-Yoon vows to make some changes as chair while one professor struggles to keep it together.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Daniel Gray Longino
- 2021-08-20
Aug 20, 2021 · Brilliant Mistake Episode 1 of The Chair Season 1 begins with Dr Ji-Yoon Kim arriving at university as the new female chair. Big changes are afoot, and as the meeting begins, Ji-Yoon admits the grim truth that student enrollments are down.
- ‘The Chair’ Begins with Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim Starting Her New Job
- ‘The Chair’ Viewers Get A Glimpse of Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim’s Personal Life
- Professor Bill Dobson Is Told by His Daughter to Get His Life Together
The pilot episode of The Chairstarts with viewers meeting the main character, Oh’s Ji-Yoon. She’s starting her first day as the head of the English department at Pembroke. Ji-Yoon shows up to work and goes to her new office. She gets a cheeky nameplate and sits down at her desk only to fall out of her chair moments later. Then she has her first dep...
The focus of The Chair’s pilot episode is on Ji-Yoon’s job as the head of the English department but viewers also learn a little bit about her personal life. She’s a single mother with a young daughter, Ju-Hee (Everly Carganilla) who loves her Hello Kitty stuffed animal. At one point Ji-Yoon’s father tells her a graphic drawing of Ju-Hee’s prompted...
Played by Jay Duplass, Bill Dobson is a popular professor at Pembroke. He’s a published author and has plenty of students enrolled in his courses unlike some of his tenured colleagues. But his life is, in a word, a mess. He gets some very straightforward advice from his daughter when she goes off to college. Before she boards a plane Bill’s daughte...
- Mandi Kerr
- Senior Writer
At a major university, the first woman of color to become chair tries to meet the dizzying demands and high expectations of a failing English department. 1. Brilliant Mistake
Aug 20, 2021 · Dr. Ji-Yoon Kim (Sandra Oh) becomes the first woman of color named Chair of the English department at Pembroke University in this dramedy series written by Amanda Peet.
Aug 20, 2021 · Grace: The first episode’s title, “Brilliant Mistake,” comes from the Elvis Costello song we hear playing over the end credits, “He thought he was the king of America / where they pour ...
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