In Praise of The Queen’s Gambit’s Sexy String Bean
The Queen’s Gambit begins like a gothic fairy tale. 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. Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy) may turn out to be an American chess prodigy, but she starts out like Jane Eyre, watchful, quiet, alone. The Queen’s Gambit, a show about chess, engages in its own kind of gamesmanship: The first […]







