Netflix’s “The Chair” is a single narrative

No one story can say it all.

(L to R: Sandra Oh, Nana Menash, and Holland Taylor; photo: Netflix)

When The Chair, Netflix’s hot new mini-series about a university’s first-ever BIPOC chair of a department, came out, a friend posted a lamentation on the wall of a Facebook group we’re both a part of.

“This is hitting me and my writing partner hard,” she wrote. The premise and setting were similar to a pilot they’d…