Saturday, August 24, 2024

The Queen's Gambit (TV series, 2020)

The Queen's Gambit

Watched 2020.

This is alternatingly dark and glorious. Yes, it is too fantastic that a young girl can gain such international prominence in the chess world, and I wish there could be more technical discussions of chess. Some plot directions could be guessed, but the details were, as I said, glorious.

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