User Reviews

What a great show, good script, acting and the music is perfect. The Second Episode have a really good script and make you want to play chess.

This series is brilliant. Never has chess been made sexy, enticing and captivating on screen as it has in this series. Taylor-joy is an absolute wonder to behold and she plays her roll with extreme poise, sophistication and diligence towards her craft. The soundtrack, the set pieces, the cinematography, all works of art. The series is one of the best that I've seen in a very long time.

And what a fabulous adaptation of a fabulous book( too many fabulous,s),but it is so good.Anya Taylor-Joy,just one big fabulous WOW.

I was a bit worried when I saw the transition of Beth's younger self to her older self happened just at the start of the episode. But Anya Taylor Joy brilliantly carried the character smoothly, This is brilliant acting! This could be considered as the Pilot episode Part 2 because of the introduction of an older Beth hence the new actor. Surprisingly it was as good as or even better than the first. The momentum and pacing is great to say the least. 'Nuff said, onto the next one.. PS: Always a pleasure to see Mr Harry Melling!!

A high-level production. Smooth directing and editing, crazy-good acting (throughout episode 1 i couldn't wait for Taylor-Joy to step into her role, wasn't disappointed at all), as well as astounding cinematography, with true-to-life sets and original color combinations.

Soundtrack : (9.6/10) Dialogue : (9.3/10) Story : (9.5/10) Cinematography : (9.1/10) Character development : (9.5/10) Conflict : (9.5/10) Excitement : (9.3/10) Reasonableness : (9.8/10) Overall : (9.5/10)

Pros :

• the soundtracks throughout the episode is definitely a highlight.

• marvellous job from Ana Taylor Joy and well matched from everyone.

• the pacing is really good and every scene is well written.

• Interesting characters with simultaneously interesting plot points which enhances the quality of the episode.

• dialogue is intriguing.

Cons :

• honestly, I didn't see a false note anywhere the episode is outdoing itself.

I figure it's gonna be 10/10 from this point forward.

Mostly in TV series is a peak because they put everything the best they've. But this episode was wayyy more interesting than first one and I'm very surprised in good way

I'm not sure whether Anya Taylor-Joy, as promised, did make this a little better or not for me.

She definitely gave a better performance than her child counterpart, but for one thing, she is not 15, much less 13, which her adopted parents apparently think she is, and for another, I can't tell why she's so awkward. Some of it might well be a kind of "screw the standards for women at the time" thing, in which case fine, but that doesn't explain why she peeped on that couple making out, or is really rude and talked over the grandmasters' chess match, so is she supposed to be autistic or something? I don't know, but it was something that bugged me quite a bit.

It might not have done if I cared about her more, because I still don't find myself being very interested in this story, but I'll call this episode a little better because at least in this one I was fairly entertained by the chess tournament at the end. Even if they did do that bloody stupid thing with the chessboard hallucination on the ceiling again.

I also couldn't help thinking that the mother's dialogue was distractingly dumb at times, the directing was worse than in the last episode, and so ultimately, I can't say that this was all that much better than the first episode. The story is still unbearably predictable and dull, although I will admit I really liked how subtly it implied that the dad was abusive.

Aside from that though...I'm still waiting to see what everyone sees in this show. Onto Episode 3 I guess...

This episode serves well to help the viewer understand the characters and their states, much like the start of a chess game. We see the incredible genius of Beth manifest engulf the world around her. We see the fire when it is small and how it will blaze to become bigger than it currently is. We see the grieving stepmom, who recovers from her troubles and shows signs of avarice, which will also add to the young flame.

The episode does a good job of setting the main character on her trajectory towards, what I can assume, would be a magnificent crescendo of glory and destruction. Although, some elements that have been inserted, like her womanhood, don't quite help me in predicting how it would play out in future episodes. But, I'll keep my eyes open to be able to connect the dots.

If just cut awkward and sex education unnecessary seince it will be perfect show

I'm a big movie fan, as I've let it slip through in my reviews; sometimes you see a very bad movie and you wonder why you're so intrigued by the medium, but then there are these revelations, like Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, that answer those questions instantly and without any doubt, and I had exactly such an experience, such a revelation, with this episode; I haven't had that feeling since Kubrick's masterpiece. There is one scene in this episode where everything is perfect down to the last bar. Sometimes you don't find such scenes in several hundred films, some have never seen a scene like this. She reveals the true power of the medium and lets you see beyond the obvious, like planning ten moves in chess. This scene made me weep inside from the cinematic and cinematic beauty. To see such a scene in a series I never thought possible before. For me, it's one of the best scenes I've ever seen in a film (here a series). In this scene, it's not just the camera that always perfectly films what's happening, no, it's also the editing and the beautiful music, which is already among the best of the last 50 years, if not all time. But the most impressive thing about this scene was the acting. I love Anya Taylor-Joy - I said she's the best actress of all time and the best since Audrey Hepburn - forget everything I said, she's the best actress of all time. You can read so much in their eyes - you can't even read that much on the whole body of some actors. Then there's the acting of Harry Melling, a newcomer not to be underestimated who looks very old against Taylor-Joy, but still does a brilliant job. I love the medium for these moments. For me, "The Queen's Gambit" is already, after just two episodes, the best series of all time and a work that could be in my top 5 favorite films.