the queen's gambit

What is wrong with the Golden Globes that a brilliant show gets snubbed while mediocrity is honored?

“You’re all a bunch of f**king c*cksuckers!” That’s how we’re introduced to Jolene, a Black girl living at Methuen Home where Beth—the main character—is taken after surviving the car crash that killed her mother. She doesn’t get nearly enough attention in The Queen’s Gambit, appearing only in the first two and last two episodes to […]

Netflix’s The Queen’s Gambit rose to prominence last month, becoming the network’s most buzzed-about show. The 7-episode series tells the story of Beth Harmon, a young orphan and chess prodigy whose obsession with chess closely overlaps with drug addiction. Based on a novel by Walter Tevis, the show mostly consists of high-drama chess matches and […]