'The Queens Gambit' wins for best-limited series at the Emmys
It took this viewer about seven consecutive hours to watch all seven episodes of “The Queen’s Gambit,” and while this may constitute all the review some readers need to get on board, others might also like to know what the miniseries is about. In a word, chess—though that’s a bit like saying “Hamlet” is about Danish royal succession, or “The Wizard of Oz” is about meteorology.
Created by director Scott Frank and screenwriter Allan Scott and based on a 1983 book by Walter Tevis—other Tevis adaptations include “The Hustler,” “The Color of Money” and “The Man Who Fell to Earth”—“The Queen’s Gambit” is novelistic in the best sense, using chess as a kind of metaphoric Swiss army knife to open up a tale of obsession, addiction, adoption and the solitude of genius. That genius is Beth Harmon , an orphan, tranquilizer enthusiast and budding alcoholic.
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