Tonight on Netflix: The series that made the calls

Now it’s imperative not to miss Beth Harmon’s fascinating story. In 1950s Lexington, Kentucky, eight-year-old Betty, who has lost her mother in a car accident, is taken to an orphanage, where she discovers a prodigious talent for chess from the building’s caretaker, who teaches her to play. Gambling – while at the same time developing an addiction to state-provided tranquilizers as sedatives for children.

Finally accepted, the chess prodigy will rise to the top of the discipline, setting himself the mission of becoming an elite player: the best. But plagued by her personal demons and fueled by a cocktail of drugs, alcohol and obsession, Betty transforms into an impressive outcast of talent and glamour, while determined to conquer the traditional boundaries established in the male-dominated world of chess.

Everything about Le Jeu de la Dame is remarkable: from the script to the cinematography, costumes, sets and acting… and especially as an actor! We’re obviously talking about its undisputed star, the brilliant Anna Taylor-Joyce, a Golden Globe winner for her performance, who here brings to life the small screen’s now established feminist heroine and who, like the show, has established herself as the revelation of 2020. Now an iconic figure who is truly one of the Netflix heroes who inspires us…

Its original title, by the way, “The Queen’s Gambit” refers to the opening of the game, called “le gambit dame” (or “The Lady’s Gambit”) in French, a position that recalls the position that Betty has to assume. A male-dominated society and discipline.

Adapted from the Walter Tevis novel by Scott Frank and Alan Scott, the miniseries, a coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the Cold War, has won no fewer than 11 Emmys, including Best Miniseries and Best Direction for a Miniseries, in addition to two Golden Globes, including a miniseries.

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In this way, the show surprised the audience with its realism, subtlety and intelligence, like the elegant and committed feminist work that it is, and which inspired more than one – and especially more than one – chess fanatic!

Indeed, in November 2020, The Washington Post reported that while the COVID-19 pandemic had already increased public interest in chess, the popularity of the show had caused it to explode. The Chess.com site thus gained several million new users, with a higher registration rate of female players than before. The Netflix series can also boast of significantly increasing the sales of chess games…

A real phenomenon when it came out Ladies game In December 2020, it set a record for the most-watched scripted miniseries on Netflix, with 62 million accounts watching the show in its first 28 days. So if you’re not one of those users and you’ve been missing out on this little nugget of TV, we can only recommend that you go – and (get back) to Chess right away!