I stuck with the first season, hoping for anything, and it didn't deliver.

The series wasn't about chess, that's for sure.

This show exudes the same sort of fraudulent self-righteousness and self-awareness of every puffed-up tween pop star singing about adult themes and achieves little more than being a sick joke.

Productions like this one are tiresome. They pillory the peculiarities of savants in a sort of witch-hunt-as-tragedy, picking out some common vice and amplifying into into a warning that individualism carries the highest costs imaginable: that society bears no outlier, and manifesting some sadistic grin, it strips each one of their talent instead of nurturing it.