After being the sole survivor of a horrific car crash in which her mother, Alice Harmon ( Chloe Pirrie), passed away, young Beth ( Isla Johnston), aged 9, is living in an orphanage where the kids all have to take daily pills and drink a specific green liquid, all dished out like tablet time in One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. In episode 2, Beth is adopted by a family with a well-meaning matriarch – Alma Wheatley ( Marielle Heller), but the husband – Allston Wheatley ( Patrick Kennedy) is rather grumpy.

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Of all the different moves she learns, one is the titular Queen’s Gambit, a particular opening move.This leads to saving up and taking so many tablets at once which makes her look like some sort of autistic savant as she controls the game in her mind that’s playing out in a vision, upside down, on the ceiling at bedtime. By rejecting non-essential cookies, Reddit may still use certain cookies to ensure the proper functionality of our platform. leads this mini-series adaptation of Walter Tevis' 1950s-set novel as teenage chess genius Beth Harmon. As Beth's abilities attract attention she begins to rise up the ranks of the chess world, but her struggles with addiction and loneliness will prove every bit as challenging as the human opponents she seeks to vanquish.

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Turning to the game after being orphaned, young Beth also takes a liking to the tranquilisers handed out at the orphanage where she learns her way around the board. This is a bit slow to get going, but when Beth is in full flow in the chess championship, that’s when it’s at its best.Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. Losing direction in her formative years, and after being disruptive in class and being sent down to the basement to clap blackboard erasers together, she spots the janitor, Mr Shiabel ( Bill Camp), down there who’s into chess, and leading to her eschewing dolls for the board game.

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The Queens Gambit Season 1 DVD is based on prodigious introvert Beth Harmon who discovers and masters the game of chess in 1960s USA. Although The Queen’s Gambit goes more for drama than it does in showing us every move of every game played (because it doesn’t do that), it did remind me when I used to be gripped as a kid in the ’80s with the BBC1 morning TV series, Play Chess: 25 minutes of games being played (above), similar to when BBC2 used to do the same for snooker with Pot Black.

It’s a shame they don’t make room for chess again in the schedules, since they just have endless repeats of the same old junk. The Queen’s Gambit centres around child chess prodigy Beth and, yes, the main star of this is Anya Taylor-Joy ( Split), but in the first episode, she appears only at the start in a brief scene set in Paris, 1967, before it goes back in time to set the scene. Jenna Coleman (78) Jennifer Lawrence (45) Jess Glynne (47) Justin Bieber (61) los santos (47) Michael Fassbender (46) Murray Gold (45) Oscar Isaac (45) Peter Capaldi (102) Reece Shearsmith (55) rockstar (46) Sam Smith (72) Samuel L.

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