The miniseries The Queen´s Gambit (2020) is very good. The period in which the story unfolds (the 50s-60s) is very well characterized and, in particular, the series makes clear how widespread and adopted the habit of smoking was in those days. The way orphanages were run at the time, with daily doses of tranquilizers for the orphans, was a big surprise to me. Unfortunately, the story about the family of Elizabeth Harmon, the orphan who became a chess player, is approached in a fragmented way, which leaves us without much information for trying to better understand her aloofness and uncommitted behavior (with everything, except chess ). Actors are very good in the the roles they play and the miniseries reflects a very competent work on a very interesting story.
Review of The Queen's Gambit
