![]() ![]() ![]() He talks a lot and she less, but they take to sauntering around each other, different kind of birds slyly showing off their plumage. When the two meet again, he noses around her. He likes challenging, but he also likes being challenged, at least by Beth. Despite his alpha-male accoutrement, he’s not sexist or fixated on his own dominance. Instead he’s the series’ stealth romantic lead.īut Benny, just like everyone else on The Queen’s Gambit, is not what he first seems to be. ![]() Most delightfully of all, the overconfident string bean anachronistically decked out in Keanu’s Matrix costume isn’t the living worst. The orphanage may dope the girls up on the tranquilizers that Beth will come to rely on, but it’s not the chattel house of abuse and horror we’ve been primed to expect-just as the creepy, watchful janitor isn’t a predator but a chess teacher, the evil stepmother isn’t evil at all, the condescending chess nerds aren’t vindictive misogynists, the Communists aren’t heartless automatons. The Queen’s Gambit, a show about chess, engages in its own kind of gamesmanship: The first move is only the beginning. Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) may turn out to be an American chess prodigy, but she starts out like Jane Eyre, watchful, quiet, alone. An orphaned child arrives at a group home where gray, windblown branches scrape against windowpanes as though it’s the British moors and not Kentucky outside. The Queen’s Gambit begins like a gothic fairy tale. ![]()
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