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Tired of the formulaic diet of high-density superhero fat clogging our entertainment arteries? The new Netflix series
The Queen’
s Gambit offers a brilliant, well-etched study of a different kind of superhero. Instead of non-stop fighting between cartoon characters representing good and evil,
Queen’
s Gambit is the story of growing up in a difficult society under adverse circumstances, amidst more subtle shadings of morality.
The show’s creators Scott Frank (
Out of Sight) and Allan Scott (
Don
’t Look Now) richly adapted Walter Tevis’s 1983 novel of the same name. The world of
Queen’
s Gambit spills out far beyond the chessboard. Orphanages drug children into compliance. High school society ostracizes the smart and the different. Right-wing politicians and religious institutions bully and bribe high achievers into propagandizing for them.
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