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Oct 22, 2020 · Based on Walter Tevis’s popular 1983 novel and adapted for television by writer-director Scott Frank, The Queen’s Gambit plunges us into the world of competitive chess in order to say some...
Mar 11, 2021 · Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit,” based on a book by Walter Tevis, is about a female chess prodigy. She’s a woman in a man’s world, in a man’s game, who becomes a player; in fact, she becomes THE player.
Oct 21, 2020 11:37am PT. ‘The Queen’s Gambit,’ Starring a Magnetic Anya Taylor-Joy, Is a Shrewd Study of Genius: TV Review. Following the astonishing rise of an unusual chess prodigy, Netflix's...
Oct 20, 2020 · 'The Queen's Gambit,' a new Netflix drama based on a 1983 novel, follows a female chess prodigy in the Cold War era. Alan Sepinwall's review
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Oct 23, 2020 · The Queen’s Gambit is an underdog narrative —nobody expects a woman to be good at chess! — meshed with a coming-of-age character study. How much of Beth’s motivation stems from the ...
Nov 23, 2020 · Anya Taylor-Joy's performance is the high point of Netflix's surprisingly engaging (but often overwrought) chess drama The Queen's Gambit, a limited series based on the Walter Tevis novel.
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Oct 22, 2020 · Adapting the novel by Walter Tevis, writer-producer-director Scott Frank (“Godless”) tries to remedy that by having the young Beth Harmon actually envision oversized pieces on the ceiling, a device...