A TV show about chess doesn’t seem like the kind of thing that would dominate the conversation for weeks on end and quickly gain a reputation as one of the year’s undoubted small screen highlights, but people can’t stop talking about The Queen’s Gambit. The seven-episode adaptation of Walter Tevis’ 1983 novel was brought to Netflix by two-time Academy Award nominated writer Scott Frank, who also created the streaming service’s acclaimed Western miniseries Godless.
Led by a phenomenal performance from rising star Anya Taylor-Joy, The Queen’s Gambit tells the story of orphaned chess prodigy Beth Harmon, who grapples with alcohol and drug problems during her rise to the pinnacle of a male-dominated world and attempts to cement herself as the greatest chess player ever, provided her personal demons don’t win in the end.
Frank wrote and directed every episode of the series himself, and based on...
Led by a phenomenal performance from rising star Anya Taylor-Joy, The Queen’s Gambit tells the story of orphaned chess prodigy Beth Harmon, who grapples with alcohol and drug problems during her rise to the pinnacle of a male-dominated world and attempts to cement herself as the greatest chess player ever, provided her personal demons don’t win in the end.
Frank wrote and directed every episode of the series himself, and based on...
- 11/23/2020
- by Scott Campbell
- We Got This Covered
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