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The Queens Gambit - Season 1
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 circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting. Based on the book by Walter Tevis.














28 February 1961, London, Ontario, Canada

18 August 1983, Leipzig, German Democratic Republic [now Saxony, Federal Republic of Germany]

1982 in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]

February 28, 1968 in Moscow, RSFSR, USSR

1976, London, England, UK



8 February 1994, Caracas, Venezuela

10 May 1969, Woking, Surrey, England, UK





11 July 1966, Madrid, Spain



1959, UK




1988 in Hamburg, West Germany


October 6, 1940 in Liepynai, Lithuanian SSR, USSR [now Lithuania]

11 July 1978, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK

1949, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA




January 10, 1979 in Bucharest, Romania



October 22, 2020
Scott Frank's latest limited series, The Queen's Gambit, is an intelligent, anxious, detail oriented character study that's a perfect reflection of the game at its centre.
October 22, 2020
With its strong themes and understanding of the times, this is a must-see drama this year. This series serves a checkmate in its opening chapters.
October 20, 2020
It's a unique sports film that examines feminism while also touching on ominous Cold War politics. "The Queen's Gambit" is one of the most intelligent and engaging Netflix series presently on the streaming platform.
October 22, 2020
The Queen's Gambit is a remarkably intense bingewatch.
October 22, 2020
The tale of a troubled chess prodigy, Taylor-Joy's magnetic presence is enough reason to watch this handsome Netflix limited series, even if the seven-part production gets dragged out about three episodes too long.
October 22, 2020
The Queen's Gambit is watchable, but lacks the kind of genuine mystery that would elevate the material beyond that middling bar. It's better than a draw, but not much more.
October 21, 2020
Ms. Taylor-Joy is really the beginning and endgame of The Queen's Gambit, and gives a performance that is as precisely physical as it is emotional.
October 22, 2020
Taylor-Joy excels in the quiet moments, her eyelids narrowing as she decimates an opponent, her whole body physicalizing angry desperation when the game turns against her.
October 22, 2020
This is the sort of delicate prestige television that Netflix should be producing more often. It's smart and gentle and tastefully assured in the worthiness of its subject.
October 22, 2020
If it doesn't win you over, "Gambit" will at least play you to a draw.
October 21, 2020
The Queen's Gambit 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.
October 19, 2020
The Queen's Gambit is a visual character study thanks to its period setting and nifty cinematography.