(November 24, 2020 at 4:39 pm)Lawz Wrote: It's a game so is in this forum. Very fucking excellent IMO, although utterly ridiculous fantasy like Marvel in many ways. Any other users play? Come on then?! Where are you fuckers?! Seriously though, really worthwhile and entertaining series, despite the "little girl's can be as hard as Naval Seals" subtext - I'm only onto episode three.
I enjoyed it, and I do play chess. The first episode is slow, but it gets better.
The story isn't reasonable for a normal person, but remember Beth Harmon is supposed to be like a female Bobby Fischer (before he went more crazy). Still, sometimes when a character tries to teach Beth about an aspect of chess, they are really teaching us about chess, so that we can follow the story. Beth would've obviously known much of it earlier.
I think the actress really makes this show good, plus decent writing.
