[REVIEW] ‘THE CHAIR’ OFFERS MUCH MORE THAN WORKPLACE DRAMA

Despite all of the tension, The Chair is decidedly uplifting. Kim’s conversations with her daughter and father are a joy, and through all of the death-of-the-humanities despair, we witness an important shift as the English Department remembers why they arrived at Pembroke University in the first place: to teach. Academia can be (and often is) a soul-killing business, but The Chair is a good reminder that it doesn’t have to be.