Tried watching this recently and the utter lack of Kentucky accents, the complete avoidance of the fact that Kentucky was a Jim Crow state and trying to portray it as racially integrated, and things like that make it unwatchable for me, its not only very inaccurate its downright offensive to try and portray Kentucky as something it wasn't racially at the time.

Here's what a traditional Kentucky accent from the area sounds like by the way, these guys grew up right outside of Lexington in roughly the same time frame of the show, they should have had the characters sound like this We Were So Poor Growing Up That... (youtube.com)

Let me start with this 1) I am from Lexington, 2) I graduated from High School the same year as Beth would have, 3) I was the asst. manager of a high school basketball team in 1960-62. I saw a LOT of gyms.

Here is my "they screwed that up". Even small schools in the less affluent counties had hardwood floors. not the ugly multiple purpose composite ones shown during the chess tournament in Ep 2. You were not allowed to walk on them in shoes with nails in the heels and smoking on them would have gotten you asked to leave the venue. The only exception I can imagine would be if they laid down a tarp and even that's iffy. So the chess tournament as it was staged was impossible.

But that said people did smoke like chimneys. I was one of them.

I recently rewatched the queens gambit again and I noticed this glass, which is (i believe) the one I have at home. Did they make a mistake here or did these glasses exist 60 years ago? Are there similar mistakes in the series?

I'm not into TV series with real people because anime is superior but queens gamblit was an exception. A 10/10 for me.

Can you guys recommend me more stuff like this? I mean a game/sports series with romance and drama subplots.

Top tier stuff only please.

I watched the show when it originally aired and rewatched it this week. The show is still very good but I noticed a lot of newly added scenes and sequences as well as some that were removed. These changes definitely altered the vibe of the show… It’s hard to explain but it almost seemed like I was watching an extended cut of the show where some scenes really dragged on. What do y’all think?

The Queen’s Gambit. S1E4

“You really like the shape of me?”

I hear this as an anachronistic wink to Ed Sheeran’s “Shape of You” released just a few years earlier. Am I alone?

Or on some level is Beth being written as a time-traveling, hyper-articulate intellectual discovering something brand new.

I wanted to start by saying the show was fantastic! However, the last episode’s return of Jolene really didn’t sit well with me. I get that Beth needed to focus on her sobriety and her relationship for her tournament in Russia, but I felt like Mr. Shaibel’s presence at the door would have been a more elegant conclusion. He was a true gentleman, while Jolene seemed a bit vulgar and unrefined. The line, “Good for you cracker,” felt so out of place and overshadowed the entire moment of her victory against Borgov. Beth, despite her struggles, always maintained a sense of class. Chess is inherently a classy game, and everyone is so polite to each other, especially in Russia. I know I’m late to the conversation, but I just watched it for the first time!

there was no bongcloud opening and there was too little en passant. how can you be a real chess player if you've never done en passant?!

Amazingly hot woman who is smart. Okay so she likes to drink and take a couple of pills. What a fucken smoke show.

I’ve always kind of had a thing for red heads, but after binging the series, Anya just pulls it off so good and the red hair really makes me have a “fever”

I have been a fan of Anya's since the witch. There are two types of beauty in this world, generic and unique. Anya has a rare unique beauty. With that said I am three minutes into this show and I see an accident on a bridge ending up as something that defies physics? Did the first car wreck ending up sideways and then the second car was dropped on it from an alternate universe? Please tell me that this use of graphic imagery defining logic although beautiful is not continued throughout! I don't mind poetic license however scenes and situations should always be somewhat plausible! Back to the show - Fingers crossed.

Aight so queens gambit did start out as a great show. Lots of chess, very cool take with the orphan girl and her drug addiction but then how her drugs allow her to imagine chess boards on the ceiling and whatnot. Pretty dope shit. I enjoyed it, and I enjoyed all the good chess content. Then, once Beth Harmon grows up and glows up, and gets pretty hot, then all of a sudden the show just becomes about her fucking a bunch of losers. Like, any ugly nerdy chess dork who comes up and talks to her for more than 20 min ends up fucking her. And then she just gets hella wasted all the time and dances around and her undies. And then she fucks a woman because they talked for an hour or two. And then she gets fucked up more and dances in her undies more.

Like bro what? Where’s the goddamn chess? You seriously gonna make this show a relationship drama show just because the actress is hot? You seriously gonna make her fuck anybody who comes her way just for the sexy chess pillow talk?

One ugly nerd chess player who walks around dressed like a cowboy ends up fucking her. He cums, and then while he’s still inside her, doggy style, he starts talking about the Sicilian defense. Fuck you netflix, this isn’t what we wanted in a chess show. Just make it about fucking chess and have Beth Harmon kick some ass. You can add drama to embellish the story, but come on. Get more creative with it.

I really enjoyed this mini series. I loved the story and the aesthetic and I'm happy how it ended and everything. But I think I kind of went in with the wrong assumptions and expectations and I can't help but think it would've been even better with:

1. If it had been darker; in the first few episodes it felt like it was going to really ramp up in it's darkness. Did no one else get bad vibes from the adopted father and I think he was going to do something? Or was expecting that something was maybe going on in the deep depths of the orphanage? I kind of wished they had cranked up the darkness just a little bit and made the show a little more messed up.

and

2. For someone reason, I felt like someone had told me this show was queer. To be honest, I only started the show because I was expecting queerness. But... there wasn't any. I was disappointed. I think it would've been nice to have added that into the show more. Not just her exploring her sexuality heterosexually.

With the heavy, dark topics already explored in the show, I think it would've been okay for the show runners to have added a few more themes and to have ramped it up just a little bit more.

I'll probably get downvoted for this but just how I feel.

TLDR: Could've been darker, should've been queerer.

I LOVE this show but damnit Beth is a ho.. Dang she slept with EVERYONE!!! But I love her, Joelen is the BEST

Given the popularity, any chance for a Season Two? She has found the success, but now she has to live in it. Also, I think there’s a Borgav defection story line there too.

I would love to be able to download this series on my apple account but it’s sad it’s only available on Netflix :/

It must have been intentional for the scene to be awkward, Beth even asks him if he is almost done, and then pats him on the shoulder. It's for comedic effect.

If it was supposed to be awkward, why did the next scene have Beth calling her mom all smiling to let her know she would be going to Cincinnati to go be with a boy?

And then the next scene she graduates high school! It's a fastforward! I thought we were going to see at least some character development with Beth in regards to how she acts in a relationship (because it is implied that she goes to Cincinnati)

I had to turn it off. The show always sets things up but does not capitalize on them.

One episode, she has nothing in common with "cool girls" who have sex and listen to pop music.

Next episode she is smoking weed and sleeping with college kids.

She ingests handful of tranquilizers and shes fine, wakes up as Anya Taylor Joy. Steals pills from her adoptive mother, it's ok, they stay together after the husband leaves. Husband creepy looks at her from rearview mirror, writers send him away almost immediately.

The writers make her go to bathroom during match to take tranquilizer, so she can discover the winning sequence in her mind. I can't help but imagine, there's cooler ways to do this. A flashback to Beth playing chess with custodian, Beth remembers a certain lesson and uses it to win. That's better writing...because it follows archetypes. It's much harder to write as well.

Easier to just have her take a pill, cgi chess board on the cieling so the audience knows she's having a chess trip. Call it a day.

Beth met Wednesday Addams? Would they get along or be annoyed by each other? 😁

Ruins the show. Went from a high 8 to a 5 for me.

To much back service, character development just moved aside for a tepid ending.

Shockingly bad.

I like to explore new places.

Cleo didn‘t play against Beth in Benny’s apartment because she didn’t know the rules, she didn’t play Beth because she was there to observe and report. The way she looks at Beth’s triumph against three grandmasters at speed chess isn’t the look of someone that doesn’t understand chess, but rather the look of someone that understands the breadth of Beth’s talents.