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 Post subject: The Queen's Gambit
PostPosted: Wed Nov 11, 2020 10:00 am 
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Not sure how a big of audience there is around here for a fictional orphaned chess prodigy story, but finished this last night and enjoyed it. Only 7 episodes too, so an easy watch.


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It was excellent. Higher quality than the usual Netflix show. If it was a movie it would have been an Oscar contender.

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Finished the first three episodes last night and really liked it. Plan on finishing it tonight

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Really enjoyed it. 7 episodes was perfect. Perfect pacing, I thought.


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ok ill check it out thanks


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Best show I’ve seen in awhile.

Agree that 7 episodes was just the right amount. When the chess nerds in NYC called when she was in the USSR to help with Borgov was great.

Bill Camp, the guy who plays Shaibel is good in everything he’s in. He was in the Looming Tower on Hulu and the Night Of and the Outsider on HBO. Perfect supporting guy. When he got called a cocksucker by the 9 year old Beth Harmon I laughed my ass off.


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ill save it for later. started rewatching the soprano's from season 1. FF thru the shit parts though.


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I’m about three episodes in. It’s a little slow but it’s been good thus far.

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I've heard this was a great show from two different people. Let me guess. In the big match at the end she uses the Queen's Gambit.

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No chance this is as good as "Searching For Bobby Fischer".

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Does that alien eyed nordic girl show her ass, like in the VVitch? She also had a tight body in those M Night Shamalan movies

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T-Bone wrote:
I’m about three episodes in. It’s a little slow but it’s been good thus far.

It’s a little slow because it’s about chess. Played by a girl who doesn’t talk much


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good dolphin wrote:
Does that alien eyed nordic girl show her ass, like in the VVitch?


that was a body double.


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Finished this up this morning, great acting and well written..one of the best shows I've seen on netflix in years.

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How do I post tweets on here?


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Use the tweet button and remove everything from the question mark right.

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