In 2021, Netflix dropped "The Chair," a miniseries based on a fictional university's newly appointed English department chair. The show scored an impressive 86% on Rotten Tomatoes, with USA Today describing it as "a darkly funny satire, skewering aspects of modern higher education with veritable glee." And unusually for a show on the all-conquering streaming platform, it didn't outstay its welcome. The whole story was wrapped up in just six episodes!

While the likes of Sandra Oh and Jay Duplass took center stage, another actor was able to take credit for the whole concept. Yes, Amanda Peet served as writer, producer, and co-creator of the dramedy, working alongside Annie Julia Wyman, a Cambridge and Harvard academic, to ensure all the educational talk was as authentic as possible.

When asked by The Guardian what the inspiration for the show was, Peet replied, "I loved this idea of having young idealists, then people whose idealism had softened, then older folks who once thought of themselves as progressive but are now just seen as part of the system, part of the white patriarchy. I thought that could be rich territory for a workplace comedy."

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