The family joke about Lee Eisenberg, the 46-year-old co-writer, show-runner, and executive producer of the Apple TV+ series Lessons in Chemistry, was that he watched so much TV his eyes were going to turn into squares. Now, thanks to Eisenberg, one of our most clever and prolific television writers, all our eyes are in danger of turning into squares. We should be thankful that this son of Needham, Massachusetts, didn’t go into the family business—manufacturing children’s clothing—but instead lit out for Hollywood.
His life story, fittingly, starts with a meet-cute. “So my dad, Amos, is an Israeli and my mom, Ronni, is from Newton, one town over from where I grew up,” he explained while sitting on one of the comfortably worn couches at the far side of the Chateau Marmont’s shabby-chic lobby. His parents met when they bumped into each other on a street in Rome, and started writing letters to one another. Ronni moved to Israel, where they married. They settled in Ronni’s hometown, Boston, their chance encounter having turned into a lifelong romance.
