The Queen's Gambit: Preview

on Netflix this Friday: a podcast preview

Listen to Ben Graff and Adam Raoof discussing the 1983 novel by Walter Tevis and looking ahead to the release (23 October) of the forthcoming drama series on Netflix! We will be back next Monday with a review…

WARNING! PLOT SPOILER ALERT!

LINK TO THE PODCAST - https://anchor.fm/thechesscircuit

Based on the novel by Walter Tevis, the Netflix limited series drama THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT is a coming-of-age story that explores the true cost of genius.

Abandoned and entrusted to a Kentucky orphanage in the late 1950s, a young Beth Harmon (Anya Taylor-Joy)  discovers an astonishing talent for chess while developing an addiction to tranquilizers provided by the state as a sedative for the children. Haunted by her personal demons and fuelled by a cocktail of narcotics and obsession, Beth transforms into an impressively skilled and glamorous outcast while determined to conquer the traditional boundaries established in the male-dominated world of competitive chess.

The series is directed and written by two-time Academy Award nominee Scott Frank and executive produced by Frank, William Horberg and Allan Scott, who also co-created the series.

THE QUEEN’S GAMBIT stars Anya Taylor-Joy, Marielle Heller, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Moses Ingram, Harry Melling and Bill Camp.