![]() It’s a work of fiction, but like all well-told tales, it’s embedded with universal truths and tropes. She plays Elizabeth Harmon, luminous, brilliant, and complex, moving across the board and her life with her wits and style, her skill at the game grounding her as she triumphs over sexism and even a rivalry of the Cold War. The series is anchored by a stunning central performance by Anya Taylor-Joy, sleekly outfitted like a chess piece herself. That “The Queen’s Gambit” has struck a particular chord with women is no surprise. ![]() The series and its star have just won a pair of Golden Globes caused global chess sales and interest among women to skyrocket and prompted at least one supermodel, Gigi Hadid, to dye her hair red like its protagonist. She’s a woman in a man’s world, in a man’s game, who becomes a player in fact, she becomes THE player. Netflix’s “The Queen’s Gambit,” based on a book by Walter Tevis, is about a female chess prodigy. ![]() It is surely among the finest series ever produced for TV and also among the most unlikely in a pop cultural landscape littered with superheroes and cheesy reality shows. ![]()
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