

Maybe a good percentage of viewers even figured out the series’ endgame.īut we guarantee no one-not Netflix, not the board game companies, not the World Chess Federation or its real-life champions-could have seen Queen B’s next move coming. Every time she and her strong eyeliner game sit down to a match, it can basically only end one of three ways. After a couple of hours watching Beth Harmon, a troubled orphan turned chess prodigy with addiction issues, rise through the ranks of the Sixties and Seventies pro circuit, it’s safe to assume the show and its brilliant lead Anya Taylor Joy will be regulars come awards season. It only takes half an episode to know The Queen’s Gambit is TV at its binging best.

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