In order to be a truly great chess player — not just a good one, but one of the greats — you need to possess a canny combination of concentration, acuity, and nerve. What seems like a simple board of 64 squares quickly becomes a battlefield; the key to winning the ensuing fight is being able to analyze and anticipate an opponent’s moves without your face betraying a single calculation.
The series, written and directed entirely by Frank, sometimes threatens to get overwhelmed by these breaks in reality and format, and the CGI chess pieces are only occasionally as sinister as they’re supposed to be. At the show’s bluntest moments, Beth’s time in the orphanage and early childhood flashbacks often feel like they’re of an entirely different show.
Unfolding over seven episodes, the limited series follows Beth’s rise to the top of the competitive chess world and all the work she does and the suffering she endures to get there. Growing up, her closest ally is the custodian and her bunkmate Jolene ; once she leaves the orphanage, her confidante becomes her adoptive mother Alma , a lonely woman in need of company outside her spiteful husband. Ingram makes the absolute most of sometimes clunky dialogue .
While Jolene and Alma get the closest to cracking Beth’s heart, she’s otherwise constantly surrounded by men. She resents that fact being pointed out to her with every chess match she obliterates, but with her shock of bright red hair and increasingly glamorous wardrobe , Beth also takes some pleasure out of drawing everyone’s intrigued eye.
It’d be easy for the show to indulge too much in Beth’s allure and make her some sort of Manic Pixie Dream Genius, and it doesn’t always resist the temptation. But more often than not, it dives deep enough into her psyche and reveals enough weaknesses that she’s never invincible or unknowable. She’s a mastermind, but also an angry obsessive with a healthy ego and a love for obliterating herself before anyone else can do it to her.
Just finished it. Loved it. Can we have one last scene though? I need proof that the bestfriend got her money back since the janitor never got his money back lol
I've always had the feeling that she is the next big thing in film! anyataylorjoy
Binged this in one day! 🖤
LMAO ya’ll need therapy
why do you suck at writing
Kim Seokjin is a critically-acclaimed singer and a songwriter. He is an art and film major from Konkuk university, one of the most prestigious universities in SK. His song Moon was chosen as the 5th best boy band song of all time by Rolling Stone.
Kim Seokjin is a critically-acclaimed singer and a songwriter. He is an art and film major from Konkuk university, one of the most prestigious universities in SK. His song Moon was chosen as the 5th best boy band song of all time by Rolling Stone.
Change Jin's description and apologize to him
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Change Seokjin's description, there's no need to put military service in his when is something they all will go through someday!!! A little bit of respect to his hard work and talent!
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You need to apologize and change things for good
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Change Jin´s description, disrespectful and unprofessional
So true.
Change Jin's description. Jin is talented, he works very hard. He deserves more respect
Hello! Please change Jins description. Its very unprofessional and unnecessary to talk about mandatory military service since the describtion is supposed to be about him! ☺️ Seokjin is a talented singer, dancer, performer, has a degree in art and acting and much more! 🙂 Thanks.
Yo yo man let's talk about the direspect.. Why did you write this on jin? Bruh. That's fucked up ayo there are many other things to say about him and NOT DIRESPECTFUL THINGS
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Kim Seokjin is a critically-acclaimed singer and a songwriter. He is an art and film major from Konkuk university, one of the most prestigious universities in SK. His song Moon was chosen as the 5th best boy band song of all time by Rolling Stone.
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