re: The Queen's Gambit Netflix

Moses Ingram is going places.

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She's more beautiful than hot.

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I'd put her in the striking category. A really unique look that can be a bit polarizing.

I loved it. Best of 2020 for me. And I love that this board loved it. Great thread. Especially the part where the guy said he was just tucking his shirt in. Great comments throughout.

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I really loved Jolene's character and think that actress, Moses Ingram (who is a relative newcomer), did a tremendous job with the role.

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Agreed. I loved Jolene and the same actress played her from childhood to adulthood, believably all the way.

She's not classically beautiful, but she's striking. It doesn't hurt that her dancer's body makes her even more attractive.

I think she's more traditionally attractive in this than anything else I've seen

She's got a very striking look, I agree, and it borders on troubling. Not in a "she looks troubled" way, more like a "I'm kind of scared of her" way.

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She's more beautiful than hot.



I'd put her in the striking category. A really unique look that can be a bit polarizing.

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If you Google her, you'll see that she has had A LOT of different looks. She's been blonde, brunette, and now a red head. I'm not usually a big fan of red heads as I'm partial to brunettes (think Natalie Wood and Audrey Hepburn) but I think Anya's look in The Queen's Gambit is the best she's ever looked. This is especially true in the "middle to end" episodes. She really should keep this look over the bleach blonds I've seen her have in recent interviews.

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The transition was seamless. And then I ended up rewatching the entire series.

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Yeah, the actress that plays young Beth did a great job. I don't even know her name -- I will google it after I post this -- but she actually got a considerable amount of screen time. The entirety of episode 1.

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I did get a little confused about her age. I knew the orphanage made her out to be younger than she really was in order to appeal to the adoptive parents, but wasn't sure how much, although I've read it was two years. So how did that work when she went to school?

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I was confused about this as well. She was 9 when she went in, played by young Beth. They switch over to ATJ beth in ep 2, but never say how much time has elapsed, and then they inntentionally obfuscate it in Mrs. Deardorf's office.

I would have to go back and watch for this, but the answer is whatever she says her age is at the first tournament. I assume she's not lying then.

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It doesn't hurt that her dancer's body makes her even more attractive

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They try to hide the fact that she has a really banging body when she's in HS....but you really can't hide a banging body.

Yeah, and when she plays the old Russian grandmaster before Borgov, he jokingly ask her age, but cuts her off at twenty-tw-- . So she was 22 in 1967-68ish.

This is easily my favorite for the year. It came at a perfect time IMO, so much shite going on in the world, and to be given a show that did zero pandering, social commentary tackling 2020 "problems" in a show set it the mid 20th century, etc, etc. Seems like there's no shortage of stuff coming out these days that won't waste at least some of their small screen time scratching that edgy, pandering itch.. so to get something that is just great story-telling from Netflix is pretty crazy.

My grandmother passed not long ago and I spent a lot of time with my grandpa looking at their pictures from the 50's, and when I saw Alda she looked so much like my grandmother at almost the same age, and both were grand on a piano.

I will say that Harmon somehow beat those benzo withdrawals, those couple of times she just went cold turkey, more ruthlessly than she did the Russians..

Which begs the question: where does her life go after winning everything by 22 in the time of times to be alive, the late 60s?