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The Queen's Gambit (TV Miniseries)

The Queen's Gambit

2020

Scott Frank (Creator), Allan Scott (Creator) ...

Anya Taylor-Joy, Isla Johnston, Annabeth Kelly, Bill Camp ...

7.6

35,775

TV Series. Drama TV Miniseries. 7 one-hour episodios. Kentucky in the 50s. Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Caroline Framke Variety	"[It] manages to personalize the game and its players thanks to clever storytelling and, in Anya Taylor-Joy, a lead actor so magnetic that when she stares down the camera lens, her flinty glare threatens to cut right through it"
		Allison Shoemaker rogerebert.com	"Anchored by a magnetic lead performance and bolstered by world-class acting, marvelous visual language, a teleplay that’s never less than gripping, (...) one of the year’s best series. (…) Rating: ★★★½ (out of 4)"
		Natalie Zutter Den of Geek	"A (Grand) masterful portrait of genius and addiction (...) It’s a rare series that can accurately render a particular form of genius without alienating the viewers (...) Rating: ★★★★ (out of 5)"
		Brian Tallerico The Playlist	"'The Queen’s Gambit' is the kind of adult-driven storytelling that viewers regularly accuse the Hollywood machine of not making anymore. Well, they made it here. And it’s great."
		David Fienberg The Hollywood Reporter	"Taylor-Joy's tour de force performance is integral to the success of The Queen's Gambit, but it's far from the seven-episode saga's only asset."
		Alan Sepinwall Rolling Stone	"An aesthetically beautiful project with several superb performances, all in service to a story that starts to feel padded long before the end comes (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 5)"
		Allison Keene Paste Magazine	"Chess has never been more kinetically riveting (...) a work of art—riveting, radiant, and simply spellbinding"
		Judy Berman Time	"The kind of prestige drama TV doesn’t make anymore (...) the absorbing seven-part miniseries is first and foremost a character study"
		Brandon Katz The New York Observer	"A chess game between genius and madness (...) Taylor-Joy infuses Beth with alternating levels of acidity and aloofness."
		John Anderson The Wall Street Journal	"The Queen’s Gambit” is novelistic in the best sense, using chess as a kind of metaphoric Swiss army knife to open up a tale of obsession, addiction, adoption and the solitude of genius."
		Ben Travers IndieWire	"Beyond an impeccable Anya Taylor-Joy, Netflix’s tricky ploy pays off"

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