Where ‘The Chair’ Was Filmed: All The Locations

If The Chair feels prefer it covers an excessive amount of floor for anybody faculty, you’d be proper: the Netflix miniseries, which follows the trials and tribulations of a newly anointed chair at a college’s struggling English division, was filmed throughout a number of scenic school campuses in Pennsylvania.

In line with Atlas of Wonders, most of the scenes and establishing pictures have been filmed at Washington and Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania. You may catch a glimpse of the Jesse W. Lazear Corridor on the left aspect of the display screen within the closing episode, because the digicam pulls again on Joon-Yi (Sandra Oh) sitting in a courtyard. If the campus appears to be like acquainted to you, it’s most likely as a result of this isn’t the primary Netflix present filmed there: David Fincher’s psychological crime thriller Mindhunter featured the location as well.

A lot of The Chair was additionally shot in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, about half-hour away. And whereas it might appear to be Pembroke is all set in the identical place, the campus pictures have been break up between Washington and Jefferson and Chatham University’s Shadyside campus. That features important campus spots just like the Jennie King Mellon Library and the Chatham Quad (pictured all through the present coated in snow). Pittsburgh’s Shadyside neighborhood (which surrounds the Chatham campus the collection shot close to) stood in for the quaint, unnamed college city that Joon-Yi and her colleagues dwell in.

All collectively, The Chair captures a traditional, Ivy League campus feeling whereas eliding any parallels to a particular faculty. Which feels proper for the ever present nature of the problems mentioned within the collection: although the fictional Pembroke University’s elite pedigree is commonly mentioned, the various conflicts going through the English division are common and could possibly be discovered at any college.