Do you remember Eve in Killing Eve, who was bent on being a spy?
This time, she said goodbye to the little pervert.
I stepped into the university campus with great anticipation.
However, the concept of this place is outdated, it is not easy to control, and the door is still full of chicken feathers when the door is pushed.
The most important thing is that when I took office, I realized that the head of the first department of the hall had no right to speak at all.
So, where are the hardest teachers of the year?
Or have to look at --
Head of English Department (2021)
This is a new work of Netflix that wants to break the structure of outdated subject teaching.
There are 6 episodes in total, each of which is about 30 minutes long.
The show is ambitious and covers countless hot topics.
For example: patriarchy, sexism, ageism, people of color, freedom of speech, etc.
Just looking at it like this, it is all a bad situation in the American environment.
The heroine, Kim Ji-yoon (Sam-cho Oh), becomes the new head of the English department at Pembroke University.
She was also the first female head of department.
As soon as she took office, the dean gave her a rather tricky task.
We're going to lay off employees.
Dissuade the old scholars who teach the students with the lowest salary but the highest salary.
Kim Ji-yoon believes that these people are indispensable talents in the school.
The Dean (David Morse) believes that the group has no use for any purpose.
So, hopefully Kim Ji-yun can get them to leave with dignity.
His goals are clear:
I just need three names on this list.
Kim Ji-yoon wants to propose reforms to the dean first.
Hopefully, he can pass the tenure of a young and popular black female teacher, McKay (Nana Mensa).
Kim Ji-yoon believes that keeping the teachers that students like can keep students.
And so everybody rejoiced.
But the dean promised well, but he still wanted her to get rid of the old pedantics first.
It is even more talkative, any way to go, even if it is dead.
You don't look at people with real talent and practical learning, the dean does not stay and does not promote.
Playing the star effect is very active, and people want to find actors to be lecturers.
As the head of the department, Kim Ji-yoon thinks this is unreasonable.
But it was suppressed by the problem of using funds.
Typical capital overrides everything.
Sadly, this kind of capital is not willing to let go of the ivory tower.
Kim Ji-yoon felt rather suffocated.
Students do not favor, the college does not act.
It's too hard to push.
Outside, they compete with popular majors with good employment situations.
Inside, everyone is anxious and full of problems.
For example: gender discrimination in the workplace.
White female professor Jonkin (Holland Taylor), the only woman on the list, was actually bombed into the basement.
There is and only her.
She complained, but no one wanted to take care of it.
Another example: the collision of new and old educational concepts.
Elliot (Bob Balaban) was a young man with a lot of scenery, and his classes were hard to find.
But not now.
He took thirty years of teaching plans and couldn't keep the students.
He wondered, but never faced his own problems.
Seeing the younger generation of new teachers is loved by students.
He is still stubborn.
Therefore, at the order of Kim Ji-yoon, the classrooms of new and old teachers were merged.
I want him to see your great performance.
You think he'll be able to face his problems squarely?
No, he just felt like he had an extra assistant.
He is not the only one who does not reflect on himself, and qiongan who can never pluck up the courage to read the evaluation of students.
Every time, the eyes are swept away and quickly burned.
Heart: Nonsense, old lady no problem!
The arrogance in the bones of the white people is vividly reflected in them.
Kim Ji-yoon is in a hurry.
She needed this group of old pedants too quickly to face herself.
Only by making changes can we retain students and retain their jobs.
But no matter how much persuasion is made, people are not ready to cater to the market.
This side of the persuasion can not move, McKay's lifelong job recommendation letter has another problem.
Elliot, who witnessed McKay's teaching characteristics in class, was greatly shocked.
Even sad.
He thinks it's not teaching at all, it's just just mingling with students.
So, I went home and concocted a document overnight.
He wanted to hinder McKay's promotion.
In this department, everyone has their own thoughts.
It's a good thing as it's a bad thing.
McKay dared to innovate, so she found the right way and was loved by the students.
But that doesn't mean she's not confused about her future.
Because of her skin color and the way she was taught, she was still limited to white professors.
She was not convinced, but there was nothing she could do.
And the old professors have their own set of perseverance.
They are not willing to follow the times, and they feel that academia should be taken care of.
Achievements I recognize, but ways I do not approve.
The violent collision of the two eras, the inability of the two ideas to merge.
Let us feel the incomparably oppressive reality outside the camera.
And you think that's the end of it?
This drama also points the finger at today's network environment.
English professor Bill (Jay Duplace) gets into big trouble in class.
He made Nazi gestures while joking in class.
The move was posted on the Internet by student p-images.
In today's information explosion environment, Bill has been pushed to the cusp of the storm.
Students protested and boycotted.
The school hired a PR to write a PR letter with Bill.
Bill refused.
He believes universities should encourage dissent.
He thinks it's good that students raise these objections.
So he launched a lecture, ready to discuss the matter with the students at close range.
But he didn't expect that no one would want to listen to his explanation.
Even aggressive.
To add oil and vinegar to your behavior to the height.
Just by taking a video out of context, everyone denied the professor who had been loved by everyone.
You have to apologize.
You apologize and they don't buy it either.
How ironic.
Looking at reality, how can this not be the case.
Is it right or wrong to let free speech go?
Today's network environment has bred many keyboard heroes and blindly follow the trend of netizens.
For example, today others say that this expert made a mistake.
A group of people may not even know which field of experts, just click on the comments and output.
Whether you understand or not can judge the right or wrong of a thing.
Whether he is really fake, he scolded first and then said.
In the information age, the upper lip touching the lower lip can easily ruin other people's lives.
Does the so-called freedom of speech give more good voices, or does it encourage the hostility of others?
This may really be something we should think about.
Let me ask if we can cherish every sound, if we can use our hearts and minds before we open our mouths.
Will the world be different?
Pai Ye felt that this "English Department Chair" seemed to be talking about some routine problems in the school.
But it's more like rubbing some of the world's human minds into a small English department.
It was short, so it wasn't discussed in depth enough.
But the flaws are not hidden, and some things may be a suitable way to deal with them so far.
Leaving your thoughts to the audience is not necessarily a mistake.