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Finding it really hard to get into Queen's Gambit. So far the plot just seems to be Woman is Very Good at Playing Chess
Maybe it's cause I love underdog sports series way too much? 
and the protagonist here is no underdog... Like a full prodigy in fact.
and the protagonist here is no underdog... Like a full prodigy in fact.
Also I know zilch about chess lol
Like wh should I care that she beat this Borgov guy though. It won't be such a huge tragedy if she doesnt. She is still young and even without that win she will still be a good player . Neither is this Borgov guy a big villain or something unless his being Russian is it
. Neither is this Borgov guy a big villain or something unless his being Russian is it
So far all the cliches have shown up, she is socially awkward, favours logic over emotions therefore bad at relationships, girl who was the hot girl in high school is now a house wife, etc etc. Also every guy who meets her after a few years says O MY you have become hot.
And yes of course her parents died in a crash and she grew up orphan. Also drugs.
OMG I just realised this American cowboy blonde kid is Jojen Reed from GOT!
I get that there apparently NO other woman who has ever played chess in this universe, but are there even no other WOMEN??
Ok so now Queen's Gambit has begun to look like a show form of the "oh but she's not like other women" or "woh aur larkio sein bilkool alag hain" series.
OMG my friend just told me this guy is.... DUDLEY DURLSLEY and this is bybfar the BIGGEST plot reveal so far oh my I am shooketh!!!!!!!
Poor Dudley went on to fall for a girl who is good at chess
Omg at long last we have another woman character who is not her mom has shown up. She is a model. Lol. And she has just spent a long time talking about how models are not mysterious and are in fact very bad in bed. In a French accent. Which incel wrote this bit lol
Lol chess player has said she would dress like the Parisian women and model has responded "you have something none of them have: talent".
You're not like other girls but it's progressive cause a woman is saying it
You're not like other girls but it's progressive cause a woman is saying it
She has lot one match (because she got drunk the night before it) and so now she is self destructing the way men think women self destruct: in our underwear and while dancing to rock music
But wait Jojen Reed is trying to save her. From herself
Oh wait DUDLEY is baxk. Possibly to save her.
Ok. Token black character has appeared. With a GIANT afro
Every body is worried about chess girl
Life is hard for Chess Girl
They literally introt a black woman friend in the last episode for the sole purpose of bailing her out. Wow. Plus you know she is not racist cause she has a black friend
Ok this Russian bit is a lot of fun
drink every time a guy says "you really are something" to chess girl
Omg another Nice Guy has returned to help her out
OMG what ALL the Nice Guys are back. Queen's Gambit last episode is an Avenger's Assemble of the Nice Guys.
See? nice guy 1, nice guy 2, nice guy 3, nice guy ALL OF THEM. Isn't if nice to know how totally supportive and not at all sexist and gatekeepy the almost all male chess community was back in the day?
stg they have that one woman tucked away in that table of her advisors but she has just apparated out of nowehere and not beengiven one piece of dialogue.
One genuinely nice and refreshing thing about the show is that they refuse to depict Russians as automatic nasty villains and mock Americans for trying to do so
Ok she has won! All the men are really happy and stan her for being so good at this thing that usually only men are good at. Yay!
wait the show is over? are they really not going explain why that american guy was wearing that ridiculous cowboy hat all the time whaaa?
Like the touch of her dressed as a chess piece in the last scene though
In retrospect I think first half of shoe was way better than the second half pistvher mom dies
