Netflix's Joy follows what went into the landmark development of in-vitro fertilization, with a focus on IVF pioneer Jean Purdy

Joy provides a telling snapshot of the ways that societal attitudes hindered the progress of the IVF investigation and establishment of the Bourn Hall Fertility Clinic in Cambridge, and how these views personally impacted not only the team working on it but the women who courageously volunteered to take part — they called themselves the Ovum Club.

Joy's ending is a tribute to the struggle the researchers faced to make IVF a reality and what its accomplishment truly meant for many in real life.

Discover the untold story of Jean Purdy and the IVF pioneers who changed the future of medicine in Netflix's Joy.

Toward the end of Netflix’s “Joy,” the muffled cry of a newborn baby prompts a man and woman in a hospital to embrace out of pure bliss. They aren’t the parents, but they had as much to do with the birth as the mom and dad.

The new Netflix offering looks to shine a light on Jean Purdy in an emotional performance by Thomasin McKenzie

J oy (now on Netflix) doesn’t explicitly aim to right a historical blunder, but it ends up doing so anyway. Big picture, it’s the BOATS (Based On A True Story) saga of three s