The Queen's Gambit
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The Queen's Gambit
Release Date: 23 October 2020 (US)
The Queen's Gambit is a 2020 American coming-of-age period drama miniseries based on Walter Tevis's 1983 novel of the same name. It was created for Netflix by Scott Frank and Allan Scott. Beginning in the mid-1950s and proceeding into the 1960s, the story follows the life of an orphaned chess prodigy on her rise to the top of the chess world while struggling with emotional problems, drug problems, and alcohol dependency.
Cast
Anya Taylor-Joy
Bill Camp
Moses Ingram
Isla Johnston
Christiane Seidel
Rebecca Root
Chloe Pirrie
Akemnji Ndifornyen
Marielle Heller
Harry Melling
Patrick Kennedy
Jacob Fortune-Lloyd
Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Marcin Dorociński
Official trailer.
I whipped through the first four episodes in fairly quick order, but hit a wall with the fifth one and my interest waned a little bit.
Thankfully though, it comes back storming towards the end. As a series, it just hits in so many areas and without leaning too hard into cliche.
World chess champion Magnus Carlsen talks about Queen's gambit in 3 videos, very interesting for whoever plays chess not too bad.
From certain angles the main actress looks like Nimue Smit, one of my favorite models a few years ago. She was a top model for some time.
Anya is understandably getting a lot of attention for the show, as she should.
It was mainly only the one episode, but Isla was very good as well.
Provided film releases are still a thing by 2023, Anya Taylor-Joy as a young Furiosa in the forthcoming Mad Max prequel is something I'll be very curiosa (sorry) to see.