The Chair

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satirical drama television series television series

The Chair is a television series best known as a satirical drama about the challenges facing the first woman of color to chair a struggling university English department.

Statements (48)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	satirical drama television series → television series →
character	Bill Dobson → Dean Paul Larson → Ji-Yoon Kim → Joan Hambling → Yaz McKay →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
creator	Amanda Peet → Annie Julia Wyman →
distributor	Netflix →
episodeRuntimeMinutes	30 →
executiveProducer	Amanda Peet → Annie Julia Wyman → D. B. Weiss → David Benioff → Sandra Oh →
firstAired	2021-08-20 →
genre	comedy → drama → satire →
hasTheme	budget cuts and institutional decline → challenges of academic leadership → diversity and representation in leadership →
mainCharacter	Ji-Yoon Kim →
numberOfEpisodes	6 →
numberOfSeasons	1 →
originalLanguage	English →
originalNetwork	Netflix →
platform	Netflix →
portrayedBy	Sandra Oh →
premise	focuses on the first woman of color to chair a struggling university English department →
productionCompany	Netflix →
releaseYear	2021 →
setting	fictional Pembroke University → university English department →
starring	Bob Balaban → David Morse → Everly Carganilla → Holland Taylor → Jay Duplass → Nana Mensah → Sandra Oh →
subjectMatter	academic politics → generational conflict in universities → higher education → race and gender in academia → tenure and faculty governance →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
D. B. Weiss → David Benioff →	coCreatorOf
Amanda Peet →	appearedIn
Amanda Peet →	notableWork
Amanda Peet →	wrote