My Rating : 8/10

I loved how the 60's were portrayed here - the immaculate production of the show is clean and stylish throughout - transporting the viewer to another time and place. The zeitgeist is beautifully captured and if you have ever played chess as a kid this will take you down memory lane - I guess most would have had someone like Mr Shaibel (or Mrs Shaibel) in our own lives who formed our ideas to explore different worlds to create our talents - someone who we gravitated to as part of our own coming-of-age. 'The Queen's Gambit' is nostalgic for the viewer as its a reflection of the constant inner drama of our own stories that play inside of our heads as a mirror to our fears of growing up into an adult - the little inconveniences, loves, passions, unpredictabilities of our own dispositions to the injustices visited upon by life.

Meticulous, engaging albeit cold and indifferent - 'The Queen's Gambit' is oddly sensational!